India’s Digital Censorship Architecture: How the 2026 IT Rule Amendments Betray the Constitutional Settlement of Shreya Singhal
In March 2015, the Supreme Court of India in Shreya Singhal v. Union of India upheld Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, which empowers the Central Government to...
Judicial Recognition and Quantification of Unpaid Domestic Labour in India – A Feminist Analysis
The Supreme Court of India in Shishu Pal @ Shish Ram & Ors v Surjeet & Ors, 2026 INSC 634 has provided a distinct framework for quantifying the unpaid care...
Karnataka Law on Honour Crimes: Excluding Interfaith Couples Fails the Equality Guarantee of India’s Constitution
State of Karnataka recently enacted the Karnataka Freedom of Choice in Marriage and Prevention and Prohibition of Crimes in the Name of Honour and Tradition (Eva Nammava Eva Nammava) Act,...
Open Prisons and India’s Reformative Constitutional Turn
Open prisons are minimum security facilities where sentenced prisoners live and work outside prison walls during the day and return at fixed hours. They are an alternative to conventional closed...
Beyond the Ranking: What India’s Fall in the 2026 World Press Freedom Index Reveals About the Limits of Constitutional Protection
India’s fall from 151st to 157th place in the 2026 World Press Freedom Index has reignited debate about the state of media freedom in the world’s largest democracy. Reporters Without...
What We Get Wrong About Consent: India’s ‘Promise-to-Marry’ Rape Jurisprudence
Indian criminal law, under s 69 of India’s new Penal Code (BNS), classifies ‘promise-to-marry’ sexual intercourse as a special offence. The offence is committed where a man promises marriage to...
Can Transparency in India survive the DPDP Amendment?
In 2011, David Banisar, in a working paper for the World Bank observed that the right of access to information and the right to protection of personal privacy may appear...
India’s “Right Against Climate Change” Meets the 2026 Heatwave: From Aspiration to Enforceable Standard
When Delhi’s India Meteorological Department yellow alert ran through 24 May 2026 with Safdarjung crossing 43.4°C, the constitutional question the heatwave forced into view was no longer whether climate change...
Restitution of Sacred Artefacts and the Right to Religio-Cultural Identity: A Human Rights Case for an Exception-Based Regime
In March 2026, Oxford University’s Ashmolean Museum, returned (also here) a 16th century bronze icon of Saint Thirumankai Alvar to the Indian Government. The museum had acquired the idol in...
When NEET Fails: Educational Equality and the Constitutional Obligations of the Indian State
On 12 May 2026, India’s National Testing Agency (NTA) cancelled NEET-UG 2026 — the country’s sole entrance examination for undergraduate medical admissions — after investigations reportedly revealed that examination papers...
When Protection Becomes Punishment: India’s POCSO Act, Adolescent Autonomy, and the Limits of the Bright Line
On 16 April 2026, the Delhi High Court in Harmeet Singh v. State (GNCT of Delhi) quashed a criminal case against a young man whose only “victim” – the seventeen-year-old...
Death Penalty in India and The Perils of Sentencing Exceptionalism
Death penalty exceptionalism, the idea that the irreversible nature of death penalty warrants the highest degree of procedural protection, has led to heightened constitutional scrutiny in capital cases in India....
