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Rakesh Shukla examines the recent Supreme Court judgment on the Right to Education, which clarified that the obligation on un-aided non-minority schools to admit 25% children from disadvantaged groups is…

If privileges of our elected representatives are not codified, they can be misused, undermining fundamental rights to life, liberty and expression, says RAKESH SHUKLA. The notices for moving breach of…

Caste bias and prejudice runs deep in India. But when court judgments display such conscious or unconscious biases they confer legitimacy on an institution we are trying to uproot, says…

A comparison of the government’s draft Lokpal Bill and the Jan Lokpal Bill of Anna Hazare and other civil society members reveals that the likely areas of contention for the…

The argument of possible misuse cannot be grounds to oppose the legalization of euthanasia, says Rakesh Shukla in this comment on the Aruna Shanbaug judgment. If misuse were grounds to…

The law of criminal defamation has several ramifications, affecting the right to privacy and contempt too and can be misused by the high and mighty to curb criticism, says RAKESH…

The directive of a Delhi metropolitan magistrate to police to file an FIR charging sedition against the writer and the Kashmiri separatist leader, exposes our law-enforcers intolerance for dissent, says…

The Supreme Court judgment quashing all criminal cases of obscenity against Khushboo is a welcome blow against hypocritical morality masquerading as virtue. But it isn’t enough. We need to debate…

The sorry 26-year saga of the Bhopal gas leak case -- in which the Supreme Court reduced charges from culpable homicide not amounting to murder to death by negligence while…

The present definition of criminal contempt is arbitrary and can lead to unreasonable restrictions on freedom of speech. A critical appraisal by RAKESH SHUKLA. The power of superior courts to…