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Rajeev Dhavan
Opinion
Self Publicity and Photo-Ops: CJI Chandrachud Sets a New Precedent for Judges
CJIs have no special right to self publicity. Justice Chandrachud has broken the etiquette of judicial rectitude.
Nov 09, 2024
Opinion
Taking Stock of Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud’s Legacy
To pontificate is a self-assumed privilege but not at the expense of the court system and justice, however profound the vanity.
Nov 04, 2024
Politics
1,480 Square Yards
So many things in the Babri decisions were fudged, even though the 2019 judgement was seen as liberation. We can re-write history but not ignore its fundamentals.
Jan 28, 2024
The Revolving Door for Ranjan Gogoi Does the Supreme Court and Parliament No Credit
The nominated MP does not fit the bill on merits. A sweeping reform to ensure there is no executive say in post-retirement judicial appointments is needed before the partly fallen last bastion falls completely.
Mar 26, 2020
Politics
Jyotiraditya Scindia’s Switch Raises Questions That We Sidestep at Our Own Peril
As a government falls and another one rises by the same methods of the one before and the one to follow, India's preferred response is: nothing.
Mar 12, 2020
Government
Fix Blame on the Neros Who Fiddled While Delhi Burnt
Muscular governments never want to even re-examine their muscularity, lest it shows they are getting weak in the firmness of their purpose.
Mar 10, 2020
The ICJ's Ruling on the Rohingya and What It Means for India and the CAA
There cannot be a hiatus between the country's new law on refugees – the Citizenship (Amendment) Act – and the country's internationally-binding obligation to protect the human rights of people fleeing persecution.
Jan 25, 2020
Death Penalty Opponents Are Wrong to Ask Nirbhaya's Parents to Forgive Her Killers
No person's grief should be burdened with the charge that they would be responsible for the death of the executed men.
Jan 20, 2020
Government
By Making Protestors Pay for Damages, UP Govt Is Ignoring Supreme Court Guidelines
The Adityanath government's move is a thinly-veiled attempt to divert attention from police excesses.
Jan 02, 2020
The Supreme Court in 2019: Justice Gogoi’s Legacy is CJI Bobde’s Challenge
Just as we have new judges, we also have new lawyers of considerable ability to whom the custodianship of the court, constitution and the rule of law must be entrusted.
Dec 31, 2019
India Needs a Proper Refugee Law, Not a CAA Suffused With Discriminatory Intent
There are six major flaws in new Citizenship (Amendment) Act which add up to a calculated violation of judicial precedent, constitutional norms and international law.
Dec 20, 2019
Judges and Recusal: The Issue Is Propriety, Not Bias
Where there is a bonafide feeling that recusal would serve the ends of justice, judges should consider this impassionately without any ego.
Nov 21, 2019
Politics
Why Demanding a Confidence Vote is Not the Way to Solve Maharashtra’s Political Crisis
The governor of Maharashtra can swear in a minority government but he would be wrong to insist on a vote of confidence.
Nov 12, 2019
Ayodhya Case: Pressure Tactics in Mediation No Substitute for Legal Process
In a representative suit, no one party has the right to reach a settlement and impose it on the others.
Oct 20, 2019
What Lies Behind the Delays in the Babri Masjid Case?
The HC judgment is over 4000 pages long, and the evidence, which forms part of the complex mosaic of this case, is appealable in ways that do not admit to short cuts.
Aug 17, 2019
Gogoi Case a Reminder that India Lacks System of Judicial Accountability
Independence of the judiciary does not mean independence from criticism or impromptu denial of allegations against judicial and non-judicial behaviour.
May 09, 2019
Why the Supreme Court Has Found Itself in an Embarrassing Controversy
No in-house procedure can be a substitute for a sexual harassment case. There is an important question before the judiciary: Who will be the custodian of the custodians?
Apr 26, 2019
Apologies Cannot Eclipse Jallianwala Bagh
Will an apology bring the erstwhile British empire to its knees? It is just symbolic and a footnote in history books.
Apr 17, 2019
Politics
The BJP Manifesto Cannot Hide the Party's Agenda of Intolerance and Bigotry
Over the last five years, it has thrived on religious intolerance, violence and mayhem.
Apr 09, 2019
The Imposition of President’s Rule in J&K is Arbitrary and Unconstitutional
Satyapal Malik’s logic simply doesn’t hold. It is for the state assembly to decide whether a coalition will last or not, not the governor.
Nov 22, 2018