The Indian judiciary is subdivided into various levels, with each level having certain powers and jurisdiction. These courts operate on a strict hierarchy with the Supreme Court of India at the top, ...

India is grappling with a massive crisis that strikes at the core of justice — an overwhelmed judicial system burdened by an astonishing backlog of over 50 million criminal and civil cases. This ...

Sanjeev Sanyal, a member of the PM’s Economic Advisory Council, unleashed the hornet’s nest by saying that the judiciary ...

In most faiths judgment is delivered in the afterlife. India’s judiciary seems to have adopted a similar approach. Earlier this year in the central city of Bhopal, a newspaper revealed that a case ...

As Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, former CJI, aptly stated: ‘Confidence in the judicial process is predicated on the trust which its written word generates.’ On March 14, a fire erupted in the residential ...

On December 29, SC issued a circular ordering prioritisation of cases involving people with disabilities. While lawyers ...

Sandhya Fuchs receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust, the Wenner Gren Foundation and the Swiss National Fund On a crisp winter morning in February 2023, I meet one of my South Delhi neighbours, a ...

If you are charged with a crime for which there is not a single scrap of evidence the judge will still send you to jail.

Learn how the hierarchy of courts in India is structured, from village courts to the Supreme Court, and understand how cases ...

In several of the 24 countries surveyed, rule of law issues and improving public safety rank toward the top half of the changes people say could help improve democracy in their country. And safety – ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday said that setting up additional trial courts would make the judicial system more “robust”, as ...