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When delivering the 12th Justice K.T. Desai Memorial Lecture on dissenting judgments in Mumbai last year, Justice Rohinton F. Nariman described the great dissenters on the Supreme Court of the 1950s and 1960s as persons who had chiselled and added meaning to the Constitution’s fundamental rights. […]

Same-gender sex remains a crime in the country due to a flagrant judicial mistake committed by the Supreme Court in 2013. The time has come to undo it. […]

A nine-judge bench of the Supreme Court has ruled that privacy is a fundamental right. Here are the arguments given by each of the nine lordships. […]

There is hope among the daughters of Jammu and Kashmir that Article 35-A of the Indian Constitution, which makes unjust distinctions between the sons and daughters of the state, will also be scrapped by the apex court. […]

Bhopal gas tragedy was not only a tragedy of 1984, it is a tragedy of this century. It was biggest Industrial disaster and probably the biggest abuse of human rights in a democracy till date. […]

Further expanding the meaning of the ‘right to life’ and including second generation rights. Olga Tellis v. Bombay Municipal Corporation (1985) Facts of the Case The Right to Life Includes the Right to Livelihood Policy-Oriented Approach of the Supreme Court The Aftermath of Olga Tellis The Largest Court-Sanctioned Eviction in [...]

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The National Food Security Act, 2013, has met with prolonged political indifference, but there is some hope now since the Centre has been asked by the Supreme Court to ensure that States implement key aspects of the progressive law. […]

In ordering that lease-holders should pay compensation to the extent of 100% of the price of the quantum of minerals they had illegally extracted, the Supreme Court has gone beyond a mere affirmation of the ‘polluter pays’ principle. […]