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Tuesday, June 9, 2026
TopicIndian judiciary

Topic: indian judiciary

Indian women start with 50% representation in law school. It dips below 6% at Supreme Court

At every transition, the profession loses women. Not because they lack competence or ambition. But because the institutions they enter were designed by men, for men.

Indian courts are clueless about live-in relationships. They’re bumbling along case by case

The real difficulty for courts lies in the fact that statutes can regulate marriage more easily than they can regulate emotional realities.

We’re not ready for ‘One Case One Data’. Court records are too unorganised for digitisation

No AI tool can reliably extract or interpret intelligible court documents without the contextualised human intelligence that created them. As a system, OCOD will be ripe with such files.

India’s contempt law has three problems. Reform is difficult

The question of why the judiciary alone requires this protection, among all institutions whose public trust is constitutionally indispensable, has never received a satisfactory answer.

PILs are not a burden on courts. Here’s what data says

If PILs don't burden the courts but demonstrate unparalleled effectiveness in remedying failures of the State, one needs to make a much stronger case for depriving citizens of this route to enforce their rights.

‘Law is always in dialogue with time’—what CJI Surya Kant said at 4th Ashok Desai Memorial Lecture

On Monday evening, Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Author Manu Pillai addressed a packed auditorium at the India International Centre.

ThePrint’s Apoorva Mandhani wins Danish Siddiqui award for series on how lineage runs deep in courts

The series ‘All in the family’ looks at how lineage runs in India's courts: 30% sitting SC judges are related to ex-judges, 30% have parents/grandparents who have been lawyers.

Law student says university wants him to delete post on SC NCERT row—‘ready to face action, court not god’

Law student Rishi Kumar says Tamil Nadu National Law University asked him to take down Substack titled ‘The Supreme Court of India Has No Spine’ citing ‘calls from advocates & a few judges’.

SC must formulate a code for former judges. The robe cannot be rented after retirement

Retired Indian judges are appearing in foreign proceedings. It's an institutional problem

When the scales tilt—Are our courts siding too often with the Centre?

A recent judgment of the Bombay High Court, ruled that the mere presence of a Jesus statue or the symbol of the crosscannot be seen as proof of conversion to Christianity.

On Camera

Three reasons why India is overly dependent on China for lithium

China processes over two-thirds of global lithium. Until Indian firms begin investing in lithium refineries, the raw material will continue to be exported to China for processing.

What makes the US economy so resilient & why Indian investors should take note

Leave aside long data runs, even if focus is put on specific episodes of pronounced crisis such as COVID-19 pandemic, America excels in recovering rapidly from such phases.

Rajnath’s stern message to HAL—stick to your commitment, don’t overpromise

Defence minister helmed a review meeting of HAL projects which was attended by CDS Gen N S Raja Subramani, IAF chief Air Chief Marshal A P Singh, CMD of HAL Ravi Kota and others.

Three destroyers of Brand India. It’s all in our cities

The central curse of our urban governance isn’t that more voters live in these slummified villages. It’s that the political class panders to them instead of improving their quality of life.