The Supreme Court has kept up a brisk pace over the past week, delivering rulings that touch election law, civil procedure, inheritance disputes, and — in one closely watched case — the judiciary’s stance on artificial intelligence. Here’s a roundup of the most significant judgments. Municipal Poll Candidates Can’t Be Prosecuted Under Election Law for…

Introduction Waqf—an enduring endowment of property for pious, religious or charitable purposes under Muslim law—has long occupied a delicate junction where religious autonomy, property rights, and public administration meet. India’s primary framework, the Waqf Act, 1995, created a system of state Waqf Boards, registration, and supervision over waqf properties. In 2025, Parliament enacted the Waqf…

Introduction Technology has revolutionized policing, enabling advanced surveillance, digital forensics, and predictive analytics. Yet, these tools raise deep concerns about civil liberties and constitutional safeguards. India’s legal regime—anchored in the Information Technology Act, 2000, and the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885—provides broad investigatory powers but weak privacy protections. With the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023,…

Introduction Across democracies, marriage equality has evolved from the margins of public debate to the center of constitutional law. In India, the Supreme Court’s 2018 ruling in Navtej Singh Johar decriminalized same-sex intimacy, paving the way for discussions on partnership and family recognition. The 2023 Constitution Bench decision in Supriyo @ Supriya Chakraborty v. Union…

Introduction The doctrine of public trust has long undergirded environmental jurisprudence in India: the idea that certain natural resources—water, air, forests—are held by the State in trust for the public and cannot be alienated or misused inconsistently with public welfare. In a recent landmark ruling, the Supreme Court extended the doctrine to include artificial lakes…

Introduction Free speech has always been both the hallmark and the test of a democracy. In India, the Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and expression under Article 19(1)(a)—a cornerstone of personal liberty and democratic participation. Yet this right is not absolute; it coexists with a set of reasonable restrictions under Article 19(2) designed to safeguard…

The Supreme Court has kept up a brisk pace over the past week, delivering rulings that touch election law, civil procedure, inheritance disputes, and — in one closely watched case — the judiciary’s stance on artificial intelligence. Here’s a roundup of the most significant judgments. Municipal Poll Candidates Can’t Be Prosecuted Under Election Law for…

Introduction Waqf—an enduring endowment of property for pious, religious or charitable purposes under Muslim law—has long occupied a delicate junction where religious autonomy, property rights, and public administration meet. India’s primary framework, the Waqf Act, 1995, created a system of state Waqf Boards, registration, and supervision over waqf properties. In 2025, Parliament enacted the Waqf…

Introduction Technology has revolutionized policing, enabling advanced surveillance, digital forensics, and predictive analytics. Yet, these tools raise deep concerns about civil liberties and constitutional safeguards. India’s legal regime—anchored in the Information Technology Act, 2000, and the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885—provides broad investigatory powers but weak privacy protections. With the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023,…

Introduction Across democracies, marriage equality has evolved from the margins of public debate to the center of constitutional law. In India, the Supreme Court’s 2018 ruling in Navtej Singh Johar decriminalized same-sex intimacy, paving the way for discussions on partnership and family recognition. The 2023 Constitution Bench decision in Supriyo @ Supriya Chakraborty v. Union…

Introduction The doctrine of public trust has long undergirded environmental jurisprudence in India: the idea that certain natural resources—water, air, forests—are held by the State in trust for the public and cannot be alienated or misused inconsistently with public welfare. In a recent landmark ruling, the Supreme Court extended the doctrine to include artificial lakes…

Introduction Free speech has always been both the hallmark and the test of a democracy. In India, the Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and expression under Article 19(1)(a)—a cornerstone of personal liberty and democratic participation. Yet this right is not absolute; it coexists with a set of reasonable restrictions under Article 19(2) designed to safeguard…