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2026-07-18
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.
2026-07-18
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.
2026-07-18
Old Code, New Code: How Indian Courts Are Handling the IPC-to-BNS Transition
With the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita now in force alongside a residual body of IPC and CrPC cases, Supreme Court rulings are increasingly turning on which law applies to which case — and why.
2026-07-18
Why So Many 'Constitution Bench' Judgments in 2025? The Law Behind Article 145(3)
A wave of year-end Supreme Court reviews for 2025 has drawn attention to Constitution Bench rulings — here is the constitutional machinery that decides when five, seven or nine judges must sit together, and why it matters.
2026-07-18
When an Executive 'Veto' Meets Article 14: The CAPF Promotion Dispute Explained
A reported stand-off over promotions for around 18,000 Central Armed Police Forces officers has been described as a looming constitutional crisis — here is the service-law and constitutional architecture that governs such disputes.
2026-07-18
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.
2026-07-18
Forty Years On: How Article 23's Ban on Forced Labour Still Polices India's Workplaces
A look back at four decades of Supreme Court jurisprudence under Article 23 of the Constitution — and how the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita has now re-coded the criminal-law backbone that enforces it.
2026-07-18
Menstrual Health as a Facet of the Right to Life: What the Supreme Court's Article 21 Reasoning Means
The Supreme Court's recent framing of menstrual health and hygiene as part of the right to life under Article 21 signals a doctrinal expansion with real consequences for schools, workplaces and welfare schemes.
2026-07-18
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?
2026-07-18
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.
2026-07-18
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.
2026-07-17
एक कर्मचारी को योग्यता में शिथिलता न देकर जबकि दूसरे को देकर अनुच्छेद 14 का उल्लंघन क्यों होता है
सरकारी कर्मचारियों के लिए पात्रता में शिथिलताओं के असमान व्यवहार पर हाल के एक निर्णय ने एक बुनियादी संवैधानिक प्रश्न को फिर से उभारा है: प्रशासनिक विवेक कब मनमानी भेदभाव में बदल जाता है?