Civil Justice

From President K.R. Narayanan being labelled an “untouchable” in Paris in 2000 to Mallikarjun Kharge facing humiliation because of “purification” of the venue of his rally in 2026, the silence on caste humiliation exposes how far India remains from honouring Article 17 and the social revolution the Constitution promised.

The panel, headed by former Supreme Court judge R. Subhash Reddy, will examine allegations ranging from the use of pellet guns and lathi charges to surveillance and violence against female protesters, alongside counter-allegations of property damage and injuries to police personnel.

The Forum’s seventh Annual Report documents a rekindled militancy following the Red Fort attack, a rise in the profiling and harassment of Kashmiri Muslims, the routine invocation of UAPA and PSA against civilians, and continued stagnation on statehood, alongside a special section on Ladakh and Pakistan-held Kashmir.

By refusing to make a statement on police brutality against student protestors, the Home Minister is evading the doctrine of ministerial accountability enshrined in Articles 75(3) and 77(3) of the Constitution – undermining Ambedkar’s vision of legislative supremacy.

Seventeen years after the Liberhan Commission's report, an honest reckoning must acknowledge not only its indictments, but also its omissions and problematic portrayals of what actually happened in Ayodhya in 1992.

By warning the youth against mistaking freedom for unrestrained liberty, Doval invokes Lokmanya Tilak’s name even as his own record, from “civil society as a frontier of war” to the crackdown on dissenters, stands in direct contradiction to everything Tilak stood and suffered for.

Weeks of student revolt against an unaccountable regime cracking down on dissent and its exclusionary higher education policies forced the education minister's resignation. Ambedkar's iconography and ideals gave the uprising its moral personality.

With no public document recording what was agreed between the CJP and Union Ministers J.P. Nadda and Dr. Jitendra Singh, the withdrawal of cases against protesting students will turn on prosecutorial discretion and judicial consent, not on the informal assurance itself.