The functioning of the judiciary reveals that it has exercised its powers in creative ways and devised new strategies to ensure the protection of human rights of prisoners. In recent decades, the ...

In the past year, the Supreme Court has acquitted over a dozen individuals who were convicted by trial and High Courts for ...

Proposing the death penalty for religious conversion of girls is not only bizarre but deserves to be condemned by all." ...

The case was brought by A.K. Gopalan, a communist leader. The case challenged the constitutionality of the Preventive Detention Act of 1950, which allowed the government to detain people without trial ...

The serious judicial intervention on behalf of undertrial prisoners began as early as 1979, when reports in The Indian Express highlighted the plight of thousands languishing in prisons without trial.

The landmark judgment in Swapnil Tripathi v. Supreme Court of India, brought about a transformative shift in the Indian ...

The Supreme Court is set to hear a plea on March 17 challenging the current method of appointing the Comptroller and Auditor ...

CHENNAI: Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday adjourned a hearing on a plea that challenged the constitutional validity of various provisions ...

Addressing an event held by the Madras Bar Association in Chennai, the Tamil Nadu chief minister said an independent ...

The U.S. Department of Justice argued that foreign nations are not "persons" protected by the Constitution's Fifth Amendment ...