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Despite establishing a National Tribunals Commission, the Tribunals Reforms Act, 2026 retains significant executive control over the institutions meant to be insulated from it.

The panel, headed by former Supreme Court judge R. Subhash Reddy, will examine allegations ranging from the use of pellet guns and lathi charges to surveillance and violence against female protesters, alongside counter-allegations of property damage and injuries to police personnel.

Despite research showing that womens complaints under the Domestic Violence Act are overwhelmingly genuine, courts and lawmakers continue to entertain claims of misuse while the law itself remains starved of the sensitisation, procedure, and political will needed to make it work.

A nine-judge bench, by majority, has refined but not overturned the triple test in Bangalore Water Supply for what counts as an industry under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947.

The Sessions Courts order, which conflates political solidarity with criminal intent, denies anticipatory bail to two TISS students as it treats slogans demanding the release of undertrials Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam, and homage paid to the late Professor G.N. Saibaba, as grounds for suspicion.

The conflation of affirmative action and anti-atrocity law subjects persons of Dalit lineage exercising religious-freedom to a constitutional paradox and denies them the fundamental promise of social dignity

The new Amendment turns states plenary taxing powers over minerals into a licence granted at the Centres discretion, setting up a serious constitutional challenge and dealing a fresh blow to fiscal federalism.