The Bar Council of India swiftly reversed an order barring the 2026 graduating class of NALSAR University of Law from enrolling as advocates after threats of widespread demonstrations from the youth-led "Cockroach Janta Party" (CJP). The council initially issued the suspension after roughly 450 students petitioned NALSAR to disinvite Chief Justice of India Surya Kant from their convocation, citing his refusal to examine video evidence during a trial on police excesses. The re

The Supreme Court of India, in Jupally Lakshmikantha Reddy v. State of Andhra Pradesh (2025 INSC 1096), has delivered a significant judgment reaffirming that criminal liability for cheating and forgery cannot be sustained in the absence of material inducement, wrongful gain, wrongful loss, or evidence connecting the accused to the creation of a forged document. What's The Matter? The case arose from allegations that a college operated by the appellant's educational society ha

The Supreme Court’s latest intervention on student suicides marks one of its most expansive engagements with the crisis of mental health in India’s higher education system. In Amit Kumar v. Union of India a Bench of the Supreme Court of India led by Justices J.B. Pardiwala and R. Mahadevan moved decisively beyond criminal law formalism to confront the structural and institutional failures that continue to place students at risk. The case arose from an earlier clarification

The Supreme Court’s decision in Dinesh Biwaji Ashtikar v. State of Maharashtra (2026 INSC 56) is a quiet but profound reminder that the right to education under Article 21A is not meant to exist only on paper. It is a judgment that speaks less about an individual grievance that has already become infructuous, and more about a systemic constitutional failure that continues to deny children from weaker and disadvantaged sections meaningful access to schooling promised by law.

The Supreme Court’s decision in Mission Accessibility v. Union of India (2025 INSC 1376) marks another incremental but significant step in the Court’s ongoing project of transforming formal guarantees of equality into substantive mechanisms of inclusion. Delivered in the context of public examinations spaces that often operate as gateways to socio-economic mobility the judgment reinforces that constitutional protections for persons with disabilities are not ornamental pro

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The Delhi High Court has ruled that rejecting a Scheduled Caste (SC) candidate’s admission on purely technical grounds constitutes a...

The Allahabad High Court has nullified the suspension of a teacher by the District Basic Education Officer, Sambhal, emphasizing that...