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A senior advocate, a smiley and a burning court

Senior Advocates are not, as a rule, given to emojis. So I studied Sanjoy Ghose's recent post with some care. It has a photograph...

When a broken promise becomes a crime

Courts are deciding what India's new false-promise-of-marriage law means, while a challenge to whether it should exist at all has sat unheard for two years.

Can a settlement wipe out a conviction?

What Indian law actually says about compromise and quashing

Our courts have stopped asking why

From Ajeet Bharti to Nupur Sharma to Waseem Rizvi, judges look only at what was said

How Bollywood’s deepfake lawsuits are quietly writing India’s AI law

In the weeks before he sued, a fake version of Anil Kapoor was making the rounds online. Not a lookalike, not an impersonator hired...

Hanging remains the method of execution — for now

In 2017, Senior Advocate Rishi Malhotra approached the Supreme Court challenging the constitutional validity of hanging as the only method of executing a death...

The case of Umar Khalid: how public debate has got it wrong

Personal liberty, in any democracy, is not a favour the government hands out to its citizens. It is a basic right that the state...

Is this the end to illegal coaching centres?

In a residential neighbourhood of Jaipur, coaching centres have been running for years in buildings meant for homes. Students arrive in large numbers, traffic...

How the Supreme Court decides what is essential in Hinduism

On a cool September evening in 2018, outside the Sabarimala hill shrine in Kerala, a line of policemen stood between two crowds that would...

The Ayodhya verdict was not based on religion, but on evidence

Every year on 6 December, many claim that the Ayodhya Temple verdict was delivered on the basis of religion rather than facts. The assertion itself...