India, which aims to be a global hub for manufacturing and innovation, can ill afford such regulatory excess. When enforcement diverges from economic logic, when success itself is treated as suspicious, we risk turning the very institutions meant to foster growth into instruments that stifle it. Also Read: Competition: We must raise the CCI’s tooth-to-tail…
Last week, the Supreme Court of India finally struck down as “illegal” two notifications by the Union Environment Ministry that allowed industrial units to set up, expand operations or change their manufacturing practices without following the due process of taking government permission beforehand. Taking ‘prior’ approval is a sacrosanct principle at the heart of the…
Informed by expert advice and historical precedents, we should express deep concern over the possibility of this ruling’s overreach, given how it could destabilize the IBC—a framework designed to ease exit barriers, facilitate business shutdowns and enhance India’s ease of doing business. Also Read: Mint Quick Edit | JSW-Bhushan case: Close insolvency process gaps Further,…
The Supreme Court’s recent invocation of Article 142 to break a legislative deadlock in Tamil Nadu has re-ignited a debate over the judiciary’s role in India’s constitutional framework. By deeming long-pending state bills as assented-to, the court stepped in to preserve legislative intent but at the cost, some argue, of crossing into executive territory. Vice-President…
An order by the Supreme Court on Wednesday aimed at ensuring digital access for persons with disabilities needs to be noted by the entire online ecosystem. In directing that digital Know Your Customer processes be adapted accordingly, India’s apex court ruled that digital access is an essential part of the Right to Life. Also Read:…
“Neither Parliament, Nor the Executive is supreme, The Constitution is supreme”, a sharp constitutional debate has erupted between Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar and senior advocate and Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal, following the Supreme Court’s recent directive that the President of India must decide within three months on bills reserved by governors for her assent. The…
A recent ruling by the Chhattisgarh High Court, which held that “unnatural sex” by a husband in marriage is not an offence, heavily relies on the presumption of consent within a marital relationship. The case involved a 40-year-old man from Bastar district who had been convicted by a sessions court in connection with the death…
Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna has opined that the freedom to become a non-believer and choose to be governed by secular inheritance laws of the country must apply across faiths. | Photo Credit: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna on Tuesday (January 28, 2025) orally observed that the freedom to become…
The Congress party has moved the Supreme Court to oppose the petitions challenging provisions of the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991, news agency ANI reported on Thursday, January 16. The party has moved an intervention application in the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and lawyer Ashwini Kumar…
Supreme Court judge Justice B.V. Nagarathna | Photo Credit: PTI Prioritising the appointment of women among the court-appointed arbitrators will go a long way in addressing the criticism of arbitration being a male preserve, said Justice B.V. Nagarathna, judge of the Supreme Court of India. Delivering the inaugural address at the first edition of ‘Bengaluru…
