Sarthak Gupta

A Division Bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and R. Mahadevan, earlier this month, while striking down a discriminatory rule which excluded visually impaired and no vision candidates from seeking appointments as judicial officers broke several new grounds - it was the first time the Court invoked the indirect discrimination principle and emphatically rejected the medical model of disability. But the judgement could have traversed further towards the intersectional aspects of the disability justice movement, and provided us with a more transformative reading of reasonable accommodation.

A close reading of the Delhi High Court’s suspension of sentence in the Unnao rape case highlights the risks of resolving statutory meanings at the interim stage.

A Division Bench last week while criticising two Supreme Court judgments for diluting the UAPA precedent in K.A. Najeeb, implicitly doubted why inadmissible evidence like uncorroborated disclosure statements were being treated as ‘prima facie’ proof to deny bail. Is this a new dimension in UAPA’s bail problem?