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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.
Ajitesh Singh
Staff Writer
By missing to apply a purposive and intersectional interpretation to the SC/ST Act’s application, the Supreme Court has robbed millions of Dalit Christians and Dalit Muslims of remedy against caste atrocities.
While denying protection under the SC/ST Act to a Christian pastor, the Court noted that Scheduled Caste status is lost after conversion, a ruling that leaves millions of Dalit Christian and Muslims without remedy.
In a statement released on International Women's Day 2026, the All-India Lawyers' Association for Justice lays bare the exclusion of women from the bar and bench, and argues that correcting it is a matter of constitutional duty.
Far from being unconstitutional, the 2026 UGC Regulations fulfil the Constitution's promise of substantive equality — a promise the Supreme Court itself helped build
The Chief Justice of India’s recent remarks, and a spate of agitations led by the Hindu right against the new UGC Regulations to tackle caste-discrimination in campuses seek to undo our progress towards substantive equality.
While elitist historiography has predominantly narrated the Constitution as a liberal achievement, its radical re-reading reveals an exclusionary framework towards religious minorities, sexual subalterns, the disabled and the labouring bodies.
A decade after Rohith Vemula’s passing, a series of matters before the Supreme Court - Amit Kumar, Abeda Tadvi, and now challenge to the new UGC Regulations - are testing its ability to account for structural factors behind student suicides across India’s higher education spaces.
As courts move away from insulating personal laws, Assam’s new law brings long-standing tensions between personal law, gender justice, and fundamental rights back into sharp focus.