Life And Liberty

A Bench of Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and Atul S. Chandurkar held that police cannot re-arrest an accused released for non-supply of grounds of arrest without a magistrate’s permission.

In quashing the NSA order against student activist Akriti Chaudhary and censuring the officials responsible, the Allahabad High Court reaffirmed that civil servants owe their allegiance to the Constitution, not to political masters, echoing the founding vision of Sardar Patel and Ambedkar on the character of India’s civil services.

A Division Bench found the grounds for detaining student activist Akriti Chaudhary under the National Security Act to be speculative and evidence-free, noting the arrest date itself appeared fabricated, and directed the compensation be recovered from the salaries of the District Magistrate and other officers involved.

The Sessions Court’s order, which conflates political solidarity with criminal intent, denies anticipatory bail to two TISS students as it treats slogans demanding the release of undertrials Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam, and homage paid to the late Professor G.N. Saibaba, as grounds for suspicion.

Fifty years after ADM Jabalpur v. Shiv Kant Shukla, a firsthand account from inside the courtroom traces how ambition shaped the majority and principle shaped Justice H.R. Khanna’s dissent.

A day after Justice Mini Pushkarna declined to grant similar interim relief, doctors testified that the activist, showing low parameters, needs only continuous monitoring.

Days into a hunger strike that has now stretched past three weeks, the Delhi High Court declined to shift Sonam Wangchuk to a hospital of his choice leaving his family's claim that his consent and his choice of treatment were never truly his own, unresolved.

Amid a live split in Supreme Court jurisprudence on Article 21 and bail under special statutes, the Delhi High Court’s order granting bail after nearly five years’ incarceration marks a return to the constitutional reasoning laid down in Union of India v. K.A. Najeeb.