The Court’s rebranding of Vacation Benches is a response to public criticism. But the terms of the discourse need a fundamental shift

Professor A.K. Mahmudabad was jailed for a Facebook post. The Supreme Court has constituted a Special Investigation Team to decode it

CJI Sanjiv Khanna's brief tenure may have lacked the pomp of the Chandrachud Court but was by no means uneventful

Why wasn’t the TN Governor Case referred to a Constitution Bench?

The Supreme Court grants Union seven days to file response as petitioners allege ‘parliamentary usurpation of the faith of 200 million’

The season’s hearings on air pollution have opened several workstreams for authorities. But can the SC double down on enforcement?

SC judges have resolved to publicly declare their assets in a step to improve transparency. But even this simple move has a loaded history

The conversation after the cash discovery at Justice Yashwant Varma’s residence seems focussed on appointment, not accountability

The Supreme Court’s recent commuting of a death sentence causes us to revisit the tricky question of ‘mitigating circumstances’

In a recent case, the top court reiterated that a conviction can be sustained solely on the basis of the prosecutrix’s ‘unshaken’ testimony

A century after winning the right to practice law, women in the highest ranks of the judiciary remain the exception, not the norm

A recent decision of the Supreme Court highlighted the need to create a more sensitive work environment for women in the judiciary