“The Palghar Report” focuses on the assessment of the conditions of affected families residing in the villages of Navi Akarpatti and Navi Popharan. These villages were created as a result of the separation of Dahisar Tarfe Tarapur, which occurred due to the establishment of the Tarapur …
Anmol Jain Image credit The Supreme Court recently delivered a split verdict on the constitutionality of the Karnataka Government’s Order proscribing the use of religious identities as part of the school uniform. Justice Gupta decided in favour of the Government. In this post, I …
Malhar Satav Image credit This piece examines the importance of global consensus to combat the Climate Crisis by arguing that the cost of inaction exceeds far more than the cost of immediate, intensive, and coordinated action to mitigate the climate crisis through a global economic …
[This is a guest post by Anant Sangal.] In this article, I argue that owing to the philosophical design of the Equality Code [Articles 15(1), 16(1), 16(2), 16(4), and 17] of the Indian Constitution, the affirmative action for Scheduled Castes [SCs] has a premier status in the …
[This is a guest post by Soumya Ghosal.] The Government of India enacted the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act [POSH] in 2013 with the aim of defining what constitutes sexual harassment in the workplace, to lay down the necessary …
[This is a guest post by Anmol Jain.] Recent events in Punjab have, once again, cast sharp scrutiny upon the office of the Governor. The events that transpired in Punjab could be summarized as follows. Amid several allegations of the BJP’s attempt to entice the ruling AAP government’s …
[This is a guest post by Nidhi Agrawal and Sukarm Sharma.] Aishat Shifa v. State of Karnataka delivered a split verdict, with Justice Gupta upholding the impugned order dated 5.02.2022 while Justice Dhulia considered the same unconstitutional. This post examines the holding of Justice …
Part one of this two-part series (here) examined how the Supreme Court’s upheld Section 69A and the Blocking Rules on the assumption that there existed adequate safeguards against lawful content being taken down. However, we noted how in practice, the Blocking Rules offered few to no …
Piyush Chaubey and Anshika Gubrele Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), an initiative by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, seeks to democratise the e-commerce industry by carving a level playing field for the e-commerce giants and the small sellers …
Private Jails: Is it the Reform that India Needs? Suhana Z. and Binit Agrawal Justice KM Joseph, while hearing the petition in Gautam Navlakha v. NIA, remarked “There’s a study of prisons. It’s one of the lowest priorities for any government. In Europe, there’s a concept of private …
Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (“IT Act”) empowers the Union Government to block content on the internet. The provision has been on the statute books for over a decade and survived a constitutional challenge in 2015. Nonetheless, subsequent legal and factual …
Saranya Ravindran Image credit This article is an analysis of the various stages involved in implementing a cap-and-trade system in light of the blueprint released by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency and the 2022 Amendment to the Energy Conservation Bill, 2001, which gives the central …
In June and October 2021, the Delhi and Bombay High Courts had passed two important judgments on bail under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act [“UAPA”]. The Delhi High Court’s judgment(s) granted bail to Asif Iqbal Tanha, Devangana Kalita, and Natasha Narwal, who were accused of …
[This is a guest post by Kartik Kalra.] The Supreme Court delivered its judgement in Aishat Shifa v. State of Karnataka last week, a split verdict on the constitutionality of a Government Order (“Order”) prescribing an official uniform for government schools. This Order begins by …
International Law and the Global South and Research Society of International Law, Pakistan are inviting submissions for an essay competition on ‘International law and the Popular Consciousness in South Asia’ for scholars, practitioners and students from the region. The Topic Despite …
“The Palghar Report” focuses on the assessment of the conditions of affected families residing in the villages of Navi Akarpatti and Navi Popharan. These villages were created as a result of the separation of Dahisar Tarfe Tarapur, which occurred due to the establishment of the Tarapur …