On August 2, the Constitutional Law and Philosophy blog turned thirteen years old. I normally mark blog anniversaries with a few reflective notes about the state of constitutionalism in India. For the thirteenth anniversary, I had planned a somewhat ambitious
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Civil Rights, the Rule of Law, and the CJP Protests: Round-Up
This is a round-up of the CLP Blog’s coverage of the various constitutional issues that have arisen out of the CJP protests in July 2026.
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The Realm of Pure Discretion: on the Supreme Court, Article 142, and the Quashing of the CJP FIRs
In an order passed yesterday, the Supreme Court invoked its extraordinary powers under Article 142 of the Constitution to quash, en masse, the various police FIRs registered in the wake of the protests organised by the Cockroach Janta Party…
Impossible Standards: On The Supreme Court’s Extension Of Section 498A IPC To Live-In Relationships [Guest Post]
[This is a guest post by Pranav Mittal.]
On 3 August 2026, the Supreme Court in Lokesh B.H. v. State of Karnataka extended Section 498A, Indian Penal Code (‘IPC’) – now Section 85, Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita – to women in…
Facial Recognition at Jantar Mantar: The Limits of Dragnet Identification [Guest Post]
[This is a guest post by Nitya Singhania.]
Introduction
Recently, the Supreme Court began hearing petitions on the Delhi Police’s use of an Automated Facial Recognition System (AFRS) at the Cockroach Janta Party’s Jantar Mantar protests. Such Facial Recognition Technologies…
Rethinking ‘Backwardness’ in Muslim Society after Conversion: A Critique of Judgment in Sameer Ahamed [Guest Post]
[This is a guest post by Sartaj Hussain.]
Background
On 7 August 2026, a division bench of the Supreme Court comprising Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and Chandrashekhar reserved a judgment in an SLP challenging the decision of the Madras High…
Indiscriminate by Design: The Case Against Pellet Guns [Guest Post]
[This is a guest post by Rudraksh Lakra, also posted on the Proof of Guilt blog.]
Pellet guns entered the conversation around Indian protest policing in July, when the Rapid Action Force used them against demonstrators at the Cockroach Janta…
Censorship by Way of Platform Architecture: on the Telegram, WhatsApp and BitChat Executive Orders [Guest Post]
[This is a guest post by Siddharth Aiyar.]
Between June and July 2026, multiple developments in the platform regulation space indicated a shift in how regulation is set to evolve in India. First, in June 2026, in the case of…
The Supreme Court’s (First) Order on the CJP Protests: Two Questions
The Supreme Court’s brief order of 28 July in the context of the recently concluded nationwide protests against educational malpractices [“the CJP protests,” after the Cockroach Janta Party] is no doubt the prelude to a more protracted set of judicial…
The Citizenship Merry-Go-Round: The Supreme Court’s Judgment in Sabitri Dey v Union of India [Guest Post]
[This is a guest post by Douglas McDonald-Norman. The author is grateful to P Baruah for their invaluable advice and encouragement in drafting this post.]
On 13 July 2026, the Supreme Court (Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta JJ) delivered its…