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Article 136: Special leave to appeal by the Supreme Court

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Should Courts Review Delimitation?

The Supreme Court earlier this month dismissed a plea challenging the delimitation exercise that redrew Lok Sabha and Assembly constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir. The Delimitation Commission submitted its report in May last year, which created seven new Assembly seats, with six assigned to Jammu and one to Kashmir. This move had sparked controversy and […]

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Distribution of Wealth: The Unfulfilled Vision of the Constitution’s Framers

The gap between India’s rich and poor continues to grow at an alarming rate. A recent report by Oxfam India, a non-governmental organisation committed to ending discrimination confirms this worrying trend. The report relies on data publicly available from the Union Government along with other economic data available from institutions like Forbes and Credit Suisse. […]

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How a 1934 U.S. Case Shaped the Press Freedom Debate in the Assembly

In 1934 the State of Louisiana introduced a law that imposed a tax on the income of newspapers with a circulation greater than 20,000 copies per week. Newspapers alleged that the U.S. Democratic Party Senator and former Louisiana Governor Huey P. Long, who enjoyed immense political influence in the State, was behind this law. They […]

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Desk Brief: A Brief History of the Supreme Court’s ‘Complete Justice’ Power

On 11 June 1991, 19-year-old Perarivalan was arrested for conspiring to assassinate Rajiv Gandhi. He was convicted for supplying batteries and other bomb materials to the suicide bomber who killed Rajiv Gandhi on 21 May 1991. Perarivalan was sentenced to death. In 2014 however, the Supreme Court commutated the sentence to life imprisonment as the […]

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Should Minors Have the Right to Convert?

On 21 December 2021, the Union government introduced a bill in the Lok Sabha seeking to raise the minimum age of marriage for women from 18 to 21. For now, the Bill has been sent to a parliamentary standing committee for discussion. Meanwhile, the Bill has reignited the long-standing public debate around adulthood. When does […]