Law First the psychiatrist, then the arrest
Police must now consult a child expert before arresting a parent accused amid a custody fight
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Law The RTI lobby is wrong about privacy
THE SUPREME COURT will hear the challenges to Section 44(3) of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act again on 17 November. On 27 October,...
Law It was never just speech
Sharjeel Imam has been in custody since 28 January 2020: six years and nearly nine months. No court has convicted him of anything. That fact...
Law The process is the punishment
The SC/ST Act lets an FIR do a verdict’s work. At IIT Bombay, the penalty came before the hearing.
Law A senior advocate, a smiley and a burning court
Senior Advocates are not, as a rule, given to emojis. So I studied Sanjoy Ghose’s recent post with some care. It has a photograph of...
Law When a broken promise becomes a crime
Courts are deciding what India’s new false-promise-of-marriage law means, while a challenge to whether it should exist at all has sat unheard for two years.
Law Can a settlement wipe out a conviction?
What Indian law actually says about compromise and quashing
Law Our courts have stopped asking why
From Ajeet Bharti to Nupur Sharma to Waseem Rizvi, judges look only at what was said
Law How Bollywood’s deepfake lawsuits are quietly writing India’s AI law
In the weeks before he sued, a fake version of Anil Kapoor was making the rounds online. Not a lookalike, not an impersonator hired for...
Law Hanging remains the method of execution — for now
In 2017, Senior Advocate Rishi Malhotra approached the Supreme Court challenging the constitutional validity of hanging as the only method of executing a death sentence...
