Rights

The Kerala High Court’s judgment requiring a doctor to cancel her medical registration before joining the Bar conflates registration with practice, and the law has never done so.

Trans and disability rights movements confront common challenges when it comes to the Indian state’s unequal treatment of marginalised bodies in its nationalist project, the judiciary’s liberal legalism, and the emphasis on a Swadeshi jurisprudence. Our Pride Month special explores the possibility of a solidarity of counter-politics.

The National Testing Agency’s unbroken record of paper leaks, glitches, and mismanagement is not a story of institutional failure alone but of unconstitutional centralisation, corporate capture of public examinations, and a federal structure being quietly dismantled.

In its 298 page judgment late last month, the Court formulated safeguards against criminalisation of survivors under the Immoral Trafficking (Prevention) Act, while providing a detailed plan for their medical and legal assistance and reintegration into society.

In a ruling that brings Indian privacy law closer to the European framework, the Delhi High Court has for the first time laid down enforceable standards for the removal of personal information from search engines and court records, drawing on Puttaswamy and the European Union’s ‘right to be forgotten’ jurisprudence.

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?

In its 124-page judgement upholding the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision of Bihar’s electoral rolls, the Supreme Court ruled that the Election Commission acted within its constitutional authority under Article 324 and the Representation of People Act.

Born a refugee from Pakistan, Indira Jaising found belonging not in a state but in the text of the Constitution. At the launch of her memoir, in conversation with Sreenivasan Jain, she was as unsparing as ever – on majoritarianism, gender justice and the Bar’s dangerous silence.