The Government has unveiled sweeping gains in judicial reform, highlighting rapid digitization, a nationwide network of fast-track courts and expanded legal aid as key steps towards reducing pendency and ensuring faster justice delivery as mandated by the Constitution.
Emphasizing that...
The Supreme Court has expunged the observations made by the Allahabad High Court that majority population of the country would become minority one day if religious congregations, where conversions took place, were not stopped.
On Friday, the order was passed...
Rising pendency of cases in Indian Courts has started making headlines, cusing several complexities including compounding of suffering of litigants and accused lodged in Indian jails, excessive overcrowding of Indian Jails, inordinate delay in meting out Justice to the...
Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud said that our architectural models, intellectual resources and choices of physical or institutional design do not consider the disabled but takes into account an ableist perspective.
He illustrated his point with practical examples...
The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down the validity of Electoral Bond Scheme introduced in 2018 for the purpose of electoral funding.
A five-judge Constitution Bench of the Apex court scrapped the electoral bonds scheme, terming it ‘unconstitutional’ thereby putting...
In a major initiative to reduce the burden on India’s judiciary and enhance access to justice, the Department of Justice, Ministry of Law and Justice, has introduced significant measures during 2025–26. These reforms include large-scale judicial appointments and the...
True to his image for respecting court room etiquettes, Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud pulled up a party-in-person for repeatedly using the informal “yeah” during court proceedings. Emphasizing the importance of court room etiquettes, he stated, “Don’t say...
Rising pendency of cases in all the 25 high courts of the country has remained a cause of worry for the entire judiciary. One of the major factors contributing to the increasing pendency of court cases is the vacancy...
Justice delayed is Justice Denied. This age old saying seems to aptly fit on the present scene of ever mounting judicial pendency in different courts of the country. A major reason for the pendency is the vacant posts of...
Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud has once again raised questions on the functioning of lower court judges. He said that not granting bail to the petitioner on important issues of crime seems very suspicious. The Chief Justice...
