Loya case: Supreme Court has delivered a trial court judgement – without actually holding a trial

The court has become the Supreme Magistrate, the Supreme Investigating Officer, and the Supreme Additional Sessions Judge, the Court of First and Last Instance.

Gautam Bhatia

· 11 hours ago

Venkaiah Naidu’s approach to the impeachment motion against the CJI is of dubious legality

It was not open to him to look deep into the future and see if the allegations can be proved.

Alok Prasanna Kumar

· 15 hours ago

‘Fat-shaming’: Twitter takes apart Ministry of Health post linking meat and eggs with junk food

Social media users pointed out that the ministry had used an image from a stock image website to promote an unscientific claim. The tweet was soon deleted.

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· Yesterday · 11:47 pm

‘Fat-shaming’: Twitter takes apart Ministry of Health post linking meat and eggs with junk food

Social media users pointed out that the ministry had used an image from a stock image website to promote an unscientific claim. The tweet was soon deleted.

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· Yesterday · 07:08 pm

Tweet about man cancelling Ola cab because driver was Muslim provokes outrage (followed by humour)

Social media users offered hilarious reasons for cancelling cabs.

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· Yesterday · 12:55 pm

Death penalty for child rapists: This populist move will only cause India’s children more harm

With its ordinance, the government hopes to silence the protests that followed the Kathua and Unnao cases.

Flavia Agnes

· Yesterday · 12:30 pm

Impeachment moves against judges are always political – but safeguards exist against arbitrariness

India needs a less cumbersome way to impeach judges and make the judiciary more accountable. The Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill should be revived.

Justice K Chandru

· Yesterday · 08:12 am

Readers’ comments: ‘Something must be done to restore faith in the Indian judiciary’

A selection of readers’ opinions.

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· Apr 22, 2018 · 10:30 pm

Opinion: #DeathForChildRape is an empty slogan – it won’t stop attacks on our children

India must develop legal processes to report that are easy to navigate and that would increase the likelihood of rapists being held to account.

Nandita Saikia

· Apr 22, 2018 · 10:30 am

Who’s most guilty of the Kathua barbarity? Modi, Sangh Parivar, ‘secular parties’ – and all of us

They fostered a climate for hate speech and violence against Muslims, and we did not resist.

Harsh Mander

· Apr 22, 2018 · 08:00 am

Rajinder Sachar (1923-2018) helped puncture the myth of Muslim appeasement in India

The former Delhi High Court chief justice chaired the committee that wrote a landmark report on the status of Muslims in India.

Ajaz Ashraf

· Apr 21, 2018 · 08:00 am

The lesson of the Loya verdict: Supreme Court doesn’t want to find out the truth about judge’s death

The facts are in doubt but the judges seemed to already have made up their minds.

Alok Prasanna Kumar

· Apr 20, 2018 · 06:35 pm