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    Legal Lens - Page 4

    From 2G to coal, why India’s biggest ‘scams’ keep ending in acquittals

    V Aravinda
    30 March 2026 4:00 PM IST

    Legal Lens | Common thread across such explosive corruption cases is a systemic failure to distinguish between administrative incompetence and criminal conspiracy

    From 2G to coal, why India’s biggest ‘scams’ keep ending in acquittals
    The Federal Special
    How CAPF Bill overrides SC verdict, stunts careers in paramilitary forces
    The Federal Special

    CAPF Bill locks IPS dominance in paramilitary forces, defying SC order

    27 March 2026 7:47 PM IST
    WOmens reservation bill and the formula needed for this
    The Federal Special

    Women's reservation is finally coming, but the formula carries its own tension

    25 March 2026 7:19 PM IST
    Elvish Yadav is free, but his punishment came from a case built on sand
    The Federal Special

    Elvish Yadav is free, but his 'punishment' came from a case built on sand

    22 March 2026 6:30 AM IST
    Who is a worker? SC bench to revisit landmark 1978 ruling

    Who is a worker? SC bench to revisit landmark 1978 ruling

    19 March 2026 6:01 PM IST
    What does the Telangana Speaker’s defection verdict mean legally?

    Telangana Speaker’s actions test anti-defection law’s evidentiary limits

    17 March 2026 4:18 PM IST
    Euthanasia

    Harish Rana case: What did the SC actually decide and why it took so long?

    12 March 2026 9:07 AM IST
    Can the CEC be removed? Decoding the legal bar for INDIA blocs motion

    Can CEC be removed? Decoding INDIA Bloc's impeachment motion

    12 March 2026 6:20 AM IST
    RN Ravi move to Bengal breaks constitutional convention; can judiciary stop transfer?

    RN Ravi's move to Bengal breaks constitutional convention; can judiciary stop transfer?

    9 March 2026 1:55 PM IST
    Indian courts have an AI problem, and the Supreme Court is not amused

    Indian courts have an AI problem, and the Supreme Court is not amused

    7 March 2026 6:30 AM IST
    NCERTs textbook, Supreme Court

    NCERT textbook ban: Judiciary moves fastest when it's the one being judged

    5 March 2026 6:30 AM IST
    How the Official Secrets Act has become a colonial relic in the AI age

    How the Official Secrets Act has become a colonial relic in the AI age

    24 Feb 2026 6:30 AM IST
    What Parliament’s complaints against judges answer tells us, and what it doesnt

    8,630 complaints against Indian judges in 10 years, outcomes undisclosed

    20 Feb 2026 4:00 PM IST
    SC reversed Bombay HC’s refusal to terminate 30-week pregnancy; whats the reason

    When Supreme Court had to remind India that women own their bodies

    16 Feb 2026 4:00 PM IST
    Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Somnath Chatterjee and Speaker Om Birla

    Can the Lok Sabha Speaker truly be neutral?

    V Aravinda
    13 Feb 2026 6:20 AM IST

    In the past, Neelam Sanjiva Reddy quit his party after holding the noble chair to uphold neutrality. But structural loopholes ail the post more than...

    New IT rules, lawful content

    AI three-hour takedown rule: When speed becomes the censor

    11 Feb 2026 5:10 PM IST
    Ghooskhor Pandat

    ‘Ghooskhor Pandat’ row: The heckler’s veto and test of India’s democracy

    8 Feb 2026 4:00 PM IST
    The Supreme Court has taken on WhatsApp over its privacy policy.

    WhatsApp’s privacy policy and the myth of user choice

    7 Feb 2026 6:30 AM IST
    CJI comment on trade unions

    Trade unions in the dock? Reading the Constitutional stakes of the CJI’s remark

    4 Feb 2026 6:30 AM IST
    What Justice Bhuyan’s remarks on judicial transfers reveal about state of judicial independence

    What Justice Bhuyan’s remarks on judicial transfers reveal about state of judicial independence

    30 Jan 2026 6:30 AM IST
    Matrimonial disputes and the Supreme Court

    Why Supreme Court is concerned with marriage battles choking its docket

    25 Jan 2026 6:30 AM IST
    DY CHandrachud at Jaipur Lit Fest

    Bail as punishment and the uneasy legacy of Justice DY Chandrachud

    20 Jan 2026 5:35 PM IST
    Missing

    In touch with Iranian authorities on 3 missing Indians: MEA

    30 May 2025 6:30 AM IST
    RBI, digital rupee wholesale pilot, CBDC

    RBI's bumper dividend eases fiscal position, to help bolster growth: SBI report

    25 May 2025 12:35 PM IST
    Israel-Palestine Gaza war

    As Gaza aid fails to reach Palestinians, Netanyahu promises new delivery plan

    22 May 2025 7:51 AM IST
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