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 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...
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...
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...
The Supreme Court's bail to senior Aam Admi Party (AAP) leader and Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia in liquor policy case could not have been more better timed for the not so old political outfit, grappling with jail...
Speedy and timely disposal of cases, with litigants getting justice without delay forms the core of a healthy justice delivery system. And to achieve the same, the Supreme Court of India has time and again pressed upon the need...
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...
Over a century ago, on February 01, 1922, Dr Hari Singh Gour, a distinguished lawyer and Deputy President of the Central Legislative Assembly of British India, in his speech in Legislative Assembly, had vociferously said “the removal of the...
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...
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...
