In a comment piece for The Tribune, former Supreme Court judge Justice Deepak Gupta argues that no country can call itself truly free without an independent and fearless judiciary, and warns that on liberty, dissent and the appointment of judges, India’s constitutional courts have fallen short in recent years. New Delhi: Former Supreme Court judge […]
In one of the first Supreme Court readings of Section 69 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the Court quashed a “false promise of marriage” FIR, holding that the new offence carries the same rigour as the old law: the promise must have been made with no intention of ever fulfilling it. New Delhi: The Supreme […]