[This is a guest post by Ghopesh SV.]
Jane Kaushik v. Union of India was a landmark judgement in which a transgender woman teacher had sought compensation from two private schools for alleged employment malpractice, and the State, which had
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Introducing a Query-Based Approach: Lessons from Abhigyan and Airport CCTV [Guest Post]
[This is a guest post by Rudraksh Lakra and Medha Kolanu.]
In June 2026, two developments in quick succession illustrated the expanding reach of state surveillance. On 19 June, Home Minister Amit Shah launched Abhigyan, a mobile application developed by…
On the Delhi High Court’s Telegram Ban Judgment – II: The Incoherence of Indian Proportionality Jurisprudence [Guest Post]
[This is a guest post by Rudraksh Lakra.]
Introduction
On 19 June 2026, the Delhi High Court, in Telegram FZ LLC v Union of India (2026) (“Telegram FZ“), upheld the temporary nationwide blocking of Telegram and its associated features under…
Treating the Platform as “Information”: On the Delhi High Court Judgment Uploading the Telegram Ban [Guest Post]
[This is a guest post by Tanmay Durani.]
The Delhi High Court’s judgment in Telegram FZ LLC v Union of India (W.P.(C) 8259/2026), delivered by Justice Tejas Karia on 19 June 2026, concerns the temporary nationwide blocking of an entire…
Constitutional Statute Approach to Institutional Independence of ECI: A Critique of the 2023 Election Commision Act[Guest Post]
[This is a guest post by Shrey Garg.]
The enactment of the Election Commission (Appointment, Conditions of Service and Term of Office) Act, 2023 (hereinafter ‘2023 Act’) and its restoration of executive dominance in the appointment process of the Chief…
The Myth of the ‘Preliminary’ Inquiry: Rethinking Natural Justice in the In-House Inquiry Against Justice Yashwant Varma [Guest Post]
The Bihar SIR Judgement: Indiscretion in Providing Discretion to the Election Commission [Guest Post]
[This is a guest post by K. Shiva. The author was one of the advocates-on-record in the Bengal SIR case.]
The Hon’ble Supreme Court of India (“SC”) recently delivered its Judgement in Association for Democratic Reforms and Ors. v. Election…
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Judgment: Citizenship Despite Everything (in ADR vs Union) [Guest Post]
[This is a guest post by Rajyavardhan Singh.]
Last week, the Supreme Court upheld the validity of the Special Intensive Revision (“SIR”) of electoral rolls in Bihar. Among the four principal questions that crystallised over the course of the proceedings…
Seats are not power: Why the response to delimitation should run through the Rajya Sabha
Recent reporting suggests that the Union Government is preparing a revised legislative roadmap for the redistribution of Lok Sabha seats, following Parliament’s rejection of the proposed 131st Constitutional Amendment and Delimitation Bill. That rejection was seen as a…
The SIR Case: A Round-Up
Readers can find below, in chronological order, the CLP blog’s coverage of the SIR case.
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