Indian Law

Crime, courtroom drama in Indian entertainment: How the genres sway popular opinion on law and judiciary

The report studies the way in which the police and judiciary are represented in Indian entertainment in crime and courtroom narratives, and its impact on shaping citizens’ understanding of these institutions and the democracy-building project, at large.

Delhi Police vs lawyers: Clashes a reflection of substandard quality of legal education in India, occur regularly in small towns

Conflicts between lawyers and the police such as the ones in Delhi are not at all uncommon and happen routinely in smaller towns, the Delhi incidents got traction because they happened in the national capital

TikTok ban: The case highlighted the inability of Indian laws to prevent the exploitation of children

We need to take a holistic approach to kids' safety, and a law that addresses this would be welcome.

India votes against UNGA's draft resolution on use of death penalty, says move against statutory law of country

First secretary in India's permanent mission to the UN Paulomi Tripathi said the resolution sought to promote a moratorium on executions with the aim of abolishing death penalty.

MeToo movement, Sabarimala controversy: Tenets of feminism need a rethink as debate over gender equality deepens

The MeToo movement, although far from perfect, has provided a tool, whereby women can bring the focus to the differences and their vulnerabilities without being dis-empowered by them.

Hate speech in India: Media's rabble-rousing doesn't help cause, proves counter-productive to free speech

The problem of hate speech is compounded when propagated by members of the press. This is because unlike the situation where the person making the hate speech is a politician or an ordinary citizen/internet user, the media is expected to be comparatively neutral while reporting events.

The Law isn't Straight: This manual for LGBTQI individuals helps them navigate Indian legal system

This manual attempts to help LGBTQI individuals by providing information on how they can change their identity documents, as well as guidelines about mental and sexual health

On Aziz Ansari, Mahood Farooqui and India's war on consent: When a no is too 'feeble'

As the cases of Aziz Ansari and Mahmood Farooqui have shown, the law may once have seen great virtue in tethering justice to language, but there are injustices that language has no vocabulary to express | #FirstCulture

WhatsApp and the middle finger: Will India's obscenity laws compel messaging giant to drop emoji?

To determine whether WhatsApp should be obliged to remove the middle finger emoji, Indian courts will necessarily have to decide whether use of the gesture is still considered offensive in India

Jay Shah defamation case: Not hearing parties in free speech cases ironical, impedes freedom of expression

Ex-parte orders like the one passed in Jay Shah defamation case against The Wire seems to be on the rise especially in cases related to freedom of speech