Current affairs
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Recent judgments, bills and constitutional developments — short, dated, and linked to the provision behind each one.
The Right to Walk: How the Supreme Court Read Pedestrian Safety Into Article 21
A Supreme Court ruling prioritising footpaths and safe pedestrian movement over unrestricted vehicular convenience marks the latest expansion of the right to life under Article 21 of the Constitution.
Citizens or Voters? What the Supreme Court's SIR Verdict Says About the Line Between the Two
The Supreme Court's intervention in the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls forces a fundamental constitutional question: can an administrative exercise to update voter lists double up as a citizenship test?
Why the Supreme Court Says the CJI's Role in Choosing the Election Commissioners Was Always Meant to Be Temporary
A recent Supreme Court ruling revisits its own 2023 order on appointing the Chief Election Commissioner and Election Commissioners, holding that the Chief Justice's presence on the selection panel was a stop-gap arrangement — while insisting that the Commission's independence is not negotiable.
Why an Ex Parte Judgment Still Needs Reasons: The Supreme Court's Fresh Word on Civil Court Discipline
The Supreme Court has reminded trial courts that a decree passed against an absent defendant is not a rubber stamp — it must still show application of mind, a discipline that finds echoes in the constitutional guarantee of non-arbitrariness and in the criminal law's own rules for judgments.
Why Undertrial Bail Under BNSS Section 479 Is Becoming the Supreme Court's Favourite Tool for Article 21
A running theme in this year's Supreme Court round-ups — orders freeing long-detained undertrials — traces back to a specific statutory guarantee, BNSS Section 479, and its constitutional root in the right to a speedy trial.
Section 479 BNSS and the Undertrial Bail Question: What the Law Actually Says
As Supreme Court round-ups continue to flag prison overcrowding and delayed trials, here is a close look at Section 479 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita — the provision meant to get long-waiting undertrials out on bail — and how it differs from the law it replaced.
VBSA Bill: New Higher Education Regulator Proposal Faces Pushback
The proposed VBSA Bill, aimed at creating a unified higher education regulator, has drawn opposition from stakeholders over its structure and implications.
Constitution Benches Explained: Why Some Supreme Court Cases Need Five Judges — and Why It Matters for 2025-26's Big Rulings
As year-end and monthly round-ups list a cluster of major Supreme Court rulings from larger benches, here is how Article 145(3) decides when five, seven or nine judges must sit together — and why that changes the weight of a judgment.
Women's Reservation Bill and the Delimitation Controversy
The Bill reserving seats for women in Parliament and state assemblies stalled amid disputes over its linkage to a future delimitation exercise.
Women's Reservation Bill Fails to Pass Parliament
A proposal to reserve seats for women in Parliament, championed by the Modi government, did not secure passage in a parliamentary vote.
Women's Reservation Implementation Tied to Delimitation Exercise
India's plan to increase women's representation in Parliament remains contingent on the delimitation exercise, linking gender quota implementation to the broader seat-redistribution process.
When the State Bends the Rules for Some but Not Others: Courts Revisit Article 14's Bar on Arbitrary Treatment of Government Employees
A recent ruling striking down the selective denial of a qualification relaxation to a government employee, while it was granted to similarly placed colleagues, is a fresh reminder of how deeply arbitrariness doctrine under Article 14 shapes Indian service law.
Are High Court Judgments Binding Across India? The Doctrine of Territorial Precedent Explained
A Kerala High Court ruling on GST refunds means nothing to a tax officer in Chennai — and understanding why reveals how India's layered judicial hierarchy actually works.
The Basic Structure Doctrine: How Golaknath, Kesavananda Bharati and the EWS Judgment Fenced In Parliament's Amending Power
A wave of 2025-26 retrospectives on India's landmark constitutional judgments converges on one enduring idea — that Parliament can amend the Constitution but cannot destroy its 'basic structure'; here is how that doctrine actually works in law.
Delimitation Debate: North India's Gain, South India's Loss?
The upcoming delimitation exercise, likely to reallocate Lok Sabha seats based on population, has raised concerns that faster-growing northern states could gain seats at the expense of southern states that achieved better population control.
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