To recognise waiting as a constitutional experience is to insist that time is a medium of power and therefore of ...

The Indian judiciary is subdivided into various levels, with each level having certain powers and jurisdiction. These courts operate on a strict hierarchy with the Supreme Court of India at the top, ...

In most faiths judgment is delivered in the afterlife. India’s judiciary seems to have adopted a similar approach. Earlier this year in the central city of Bhopal, a newspaper revealed that a case ...

The India Supreme Court Chief Justice Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud revealed on Friday that 600 lawyers from all across the country wrote to him to express serious concerns over the acts of a ...

Former Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud believes that the Indian judicial system is transforming and is no longer being presided over by a group of “elite of male Hindu, upper caste men”.

On December 29, SC issued a circular ordering prioritisation of cases involving people with disabilities. While lawyers ...

Indian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting India. This dispatch is from Nakul Rai Khurana, a law student at Jindal Global Law School. Prime Minister of ...

If you are charged with a crime for which there is not a single scrap of evidence the judge will still send you to jail.

We might revisit the symbolism ‘Mandal’ and ‘Kamandal’of bygone era but without risk of being obsolete, even a fraction of it, as that mentality and physicality still holds lots of relevance. ‘Mandal’ ...

The year 2025 was a turbulent phase for the Indian judiciary. It was a year when scandals tested the institution’s internal integrity. Its stability was questioned by frequent reversals.

India harbors an ambitious dream: to ascend to the status of a first-world economic power by 2047, coinciding with a century of independence. Yet, this aspiration is severely hampered by a legal ...

Sri Lankan Chief Justice Padman Surasena, who was on a three-day official visit to India, spoke to HT on a wide range of issues, including the shared constitutional traditions of India and Sri Lanka, ...