Judicial Accountability

The petition seeks takedown of YouTube videos, social media posts, and online articles falsely claiming seventy-five judges and Union ministers participated in the Second International Bar and Bench Badminton Championship in London.

While initiating criminal contempt proceedings against Kejriwal and other AAP leaders for allegedly orchestrating a social media campaign to vilify and intimidate the presiding judge, Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma transferred the excise policy case to the Chief Justice for reassignment — clarifying that the transfer was not an acceptance of recusal, which she continues to reject.

The former chief minister’s decision to boycott proceedings in a matter he says is pre-decided against him borrows on Gandhi’s ‘satyagraha’ at a moment of flickering trust upon the judiciary and the constitutional promise.

Maamla Legal Hai’s second season moves through gendered harassment, LGBTQ+ succession, juvenile justice and capital punishment as variations on a single harder question of what we have quietly agreed to accept in place of laws that were never designed for everyone.

The Supreme Court’s decades-long intervention in the regulation of state judicial service lacks a clear constitutional foundation and undermines the federal judicial governance architecture that the Constitution deliberately envisages.

Over a year after piles of burning cash were recovered from his official residence, Justice Varma became the second ever judge to resign while the three-member Inquiry Committee was yet to conclude findings.

Chief Justice Surya Kant will reflect on where the Indian judiciary stands fifty years hence, while historian Manu S. Pillai traces the colonial legal order and the making of the modern Indian constitutional republic.

Justice Dipankar Datta's separate opinion in Aligarh Muslim University v. Naresh Agarwal lifts the curtain on a critical, and entirely unregulated, phase of India's judicial process. Four decades after Justice Thakkar sounded the same alarm, the Supreme Court of India has yet to act.