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Concluding a flip flop of conflicting coordinate bench decisions, the Vanashakti III judgment struck down the office memorandum permitting ex-post facto breaches of environmental law. Read carefully though, it favours regularisation, providing an intricate blueprint for it.

The Supreme Court’s recent ruling upholding criminal liability for cruelty to live-in relationships ‘in the nature of marriage’ must raise questions on why marriage is still the qualification for critical rights against intimate partner violence.

Does India’s heat relief promise truly reach its informal workers? A ground-level and RTI audit reveals that Delhi’s ‘cooling centres’ are far removed from actual considerations of informal, domestic and gig workers who cannot stop toiling in the capital’s killer heat.

The Supreme Court’s new Report on reforming judicial language treats sanitising vocabulary as a substitute for resolving the status-based rights those very words were built to define, a blind spot in its approach to sensitivity.

Does India’s heat relief promise truly reach its informal workers? An RTI and field-based study by a collaboration between economists, lawyers and journalists inquires into the many gaps between plan and action in the national capital’s latest heat action strategy.

India’s Green Credit Programme dresses up land dispossession as ecological restoration while reducing forest-dwelling communities to ‘encumbrances’ as corporates cash in on tradable green credits.

Overturning a seven-year-old trial court acquittal, the Goa Bench of the Bombay High Court sentences Tejpal to 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment, ruling his apology emails were admissions of guilt and the prosecutrix’s statement needed no corroboration beyond her own testimony

Conflicting High Court rulings on police protection for live-in couples and mandatory registration laws in Uttarakhand, Gujarat and Assam reveal a country-wide drift toward State surveillance of intimate life.