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Supreme Court directs Manipur government to disclose details of properties destroyed or encroached after violence
The Court has also instructed the Justice Gita Mittal Committee monitoring rehabilitation in Manipur to share its report with petitioners
9th Dec 2024
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Bail for the minister
The outcome in a petition seeking cancellation of DMK minister Senthil Balaji’s bail could shape the NDA’s PMLA strategy in its third term
9th Dec 2024
Analysis
Four decisions by Justice D.Y. Chandrachud that advanced party autonomy in arbitration (and one that didn’t)
His contribution to jurisprudence was progressive and limited court intervention, though the Delhi Metro case sticks out like a sore thumb
4th Dec 2024
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Gaps in GRAP: SC pushes for accountability and action
Judicial scrutiny of the pollution crisis highlights systemic failures, poor coordination, & the challenges in enforcing emergency measures
2nd Dec 2024
Analysis
To speak or not to speak: The lingering question of compelled speech in India
The Indian Supreme Court’s jurisprudence on compelled speech, largely developed through cases relating to cinema halls, is undercooked
2nd Dec 2024
Analysis
From Babri to Sambhal
The top court’s approach to place of worship cases may have emboldened right-wing groups to take the judicial route to open a can of worms
2nd Dec 2024
Analysis
“No earnest effort to implement…”: SC cracks down on negligence amid Delhi’s pollution crisis
A Division Bench bench flagged GRAP violations in Delhi, questioning police and state inaction as pollution continues to choke the capital
25th Nov 2024
From the editor's desk
The differential levels of scrutiny the Court applies to studies on caste vis-a-vis economic backwardness may have deep and abiding implications for how affirmative action policies are crafted in the future, and is especially prescient in a situation where challenges to EWS reservations remain pending.
The Mandal and Sinho Commissions: A Study in Contrasts
Studies examining caste-based backwardness have a higher bar to pass than those studying backwardness within the ‘general category'.
SCO Team
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SubscribeCan the Supreme Court Provide Reservations for Orphans?
With the petition seeking orphans to be identified as a backward class, are we moving away from a caste centric definition of backwardness.
8th Jun 2021
Part I—The Mandal and Sinho Commissions: A Study in Contrasts
There is a marked difference in the methodology employed by the Mandal and Major Sinho Commissions in studying backwardness.
11th Jan 2022
SC Offers Hope for OBC Reservations in Maharashtra Municipal Elections
The Maharashtra government was directed to submit data justifying its OBC reservation policy to the State Commission for Backward Castes.
20th Jan 2022
Medical Students Relieved as SC Issues Order in PG NEET Case
DESK BRIEF: The SC issued an Order allowing the Union to immediately commence counselling for admissions to postgraduate medical programmes.
8th Jan 2022