Samridh Chaturvedi is a JURIST correspondent and a third-year law student at the School of Law, Christ (Deemed to be University) where he covers legal, policy, and human rights developments in India. The Supreme Court of India spent the last two weeks of July and the first week of August doing something it has done [...]

The correspondent filing this dispatch is a law student in Mumbai who must remain anonymous. As India’s student march enters its third consecutive day, the national capital of Delhi has been swarmed by thousands of “cockroaches.” The term is evocative, having been reclaimed by India’s younger generation in response to remarks made by Chief Justice [...]

Samridh Chaturvedi is a JURIST correspondent and a third-year law student at the School of Law, Christ (Deemed to be University) where he covers legal, policy, and human rights developments in India. On June 11, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court delivered a bail order that extends quite a bit further than its [...]

Samridh Chaturvedi is a JURIST correspondent and a third-year law student at the School of Law, Christ (Deemed to be University) where he covers legal, policy, and human rights developments in India. On May 22, a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India, comprising Justices Aravind Kumar and PB Varale, referred a set of [...]

Samridh Chaturvedi is a JURIST correspondent and a third-year law student at the School of Law, Christ (Deemed to be University) where he covers legal, policy, and human rights developments in India. The Supreme Court of India delivered strong criticism against two lower courts, ruling that a woman whose dental practice she maintained while living [...]

Samridh Chaturvedi is a JURIST correspondent and a third-year law student at the School of Law, Christ (Deemed to be University) where he covers legal, policy, and human rights developments in India. Harish Rana, the first person in India to obtain legal authorization for passive euthanasia, died at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences [...]

The correspondent filing this dispatch is a law student in Mumbai who must remain anonymous. Two high-profile extradition cases unfolding this month highlight India’s obligations under domestic and international law: the potential extradition of former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from India back to her home country, and India’s efforts to extradite diamond merchant Mehul [...]

The correspondent filing this dispatch is a law student in Mumbai who must remain anonymous. Last week, American tech company X Corp. (formerly Twitter) announced that it would appeal a Karnataka High Court (KHC) order before the Supreme Court of India (SCI). As India’s highest court, the Supreme Court only hears appeals if the High [...]

The correspondent filing this dispatch is a law student in Mumbai who must remain anonymous. On Monday, the Indian Parliament’s monsoon session was disrupted once again as opposition parties took to the streets of New Delhi in protest. The session had so far been marred by Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar’s resignation, multiple adjournments, and a [...]

The correspondent filing this dispatch is a law student in Mumbai who must remain anonymous. On Friday, the Supreme Court of India (SCI) declined to hear a petition seeking to apply the country’s workplace sexual harassment law—called the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition, and Redressal) Act, 2013 or the POSH Act—to political [...]