Ajitesh Singh

With 84.1% first-generation entrants and 57.8% reporting unequal leadership opportunities, the SCBA survey maps persistent gender gaps.

The application seeking provisions of the Madhya Pradesh Sudharatmak Sevayen Evam Bandigrah Adhiniyam, 2024 to be struck down argues that it contravenes the Sukanya Shantha (2024) decision.

The launch and discussion of ‘Immoral Traffic’ focused on Ramachandran’s ethnographic research on women’s encounters with law across raids, courts, and shelter homes.

As 2025 closes, the question isn't whether our institutions collapsed. The law kept working, kept speaking in the language of procedure and propriety, and yet stepped aside precisely when insistence was required.

The Court noted that the material placed on record disclosed prima facie allegations of a central and directive role against Khalid and Imam.

As a nine-judge bench begins hearing the review on the 2018 Sabarimala verdict today, our tables summarise the written submissions on both sides across six of the issues framed by the Court.

We review the arguments on the Sabarimala Reference last week that grappled with the question of just how much the State can interfere in the affairs of religious communities and whether ‘English’ legal concepts adequately captured Indian religious life.

Senior Advocate Indira Jaising opened arguments for Respondents by placing exclusion at the heart of her submissions and arguing that the Constitution, as the grundnorm, admits of no higher norm, and certainly not one built on notions of pollution and defilement.

Chief Justice Surya Kant will reflect on where the Indian judiciary stands fifty years hence, while historian Manu S. Pillai traces the colonial legal order and the making of the modern Indian constitutional republic.