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The victims of the 2024 Bangladesh violence deserve genuine accountability. But the proceedings against Sheikh Hasina raise cumulative concerns about the Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunals constitutional foundation, judicial independence, evidentiary scrutiny and appellate safeguards. India must note that its refusal to extradite need not mean abandonment of accountability.

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.

As AI value shifts from source code to trained model weights, copyright and trade secret law struggle to keep pace, leaving contract drafting as the last real line of defence

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.

Every year, NIRF, India's premier university ranking system under the Education Ministry, publishes a list that students trust and institutions build their reputations around. An RTI based investigation by The Leaflet on Indias largest minority varsity now shows that it misrepresented data and NIRF simply accepted it on face value.

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.

As India marks its 80th Independence Day, a disabled academic reflects on how constitutional silence, judicial charity, and political apathy has kept disabled and transgender lives outside the promise of Swaraj.

The Constituent Assembly members never foresaw paper leaks as a crisis in independent Indias education future. But debates on the Public Service Commissions reveal an acute anxiety among the framers that without integrity of the examination process, self-government post British-rule would remain strained.

Eighty years after Independence, the fight against exam-system collapse, bulldozer raj and communal politics is a continuation of the freedom struggle itself.

The Supreme Courts recent ruling upholding criminal liability for cruelty to live-in relationships in the nature of marriage must raise questions on why marriage is still the qualification for critical rights against intimate partner violence.

Does Indias heat relief promise truly reach its informal workers? A ground-level and RTI audit reveals that Delhis cooling centres are far removed from actual considerations of informal, domestic and gig workers who cannot stop toiling in the capitals killer heat.

The Goa bench of the Bombay High Courts decision earlier this week convicting and sentencing for ten years of incarceration Tarun Tejpal, former editor of Tehelka magazine, of sexually assaulting a former colleague arrived as a reckoning of the victims thirteen years of a Sisyphean struggle through relentlessness, shaming and facing the regressive churn of our courts. In 2021, eight years after Tejpal was first accused of raping a junior colleague in the elevator of a Goa resort, abusing his p

The Supreme Courts new Report on reforming judicial language treats sanitising vocabulary as a substitute for resolving the status-based rights those very words were built to define, a blind spot in its approach to sensitivity.