End‑to‑End Encryption: Privacy’s Last Line or a Legal Blindspot?
End-to-End Encryption (E2EE) stands at the intersection of digital privacy, cybersecurity, and modern law enforcement. By ensuring that only communicating users can access message content, it creates a digital “vault” protecting intimate conversations from intermediaries, corporations, and unauthorised surveillance. Yet this same architecture presents a legal challenge when investigators seek traceability or access to communications […]
Unplugging the 24/7 Workplace: The Right to Disconnect in the Digital Age
The digital workplace has dissolved the once-clear boundary between employment and personal life, transforming connectivity into an expectation of perpetual availability. This paper explores the Right to Disconnect as a necessary legal and human safeguard against this “24/7 workplace,” where notifications, emails, and after-hours demands silently erode rest, privacy, dignity, and mental well-being. It examines […]
THE ROLE OF LEGAL EDUCATION IN INDIA
Legal education in India does more than increasing numbers of lawyers and judges in India. It’s one of the things that decides whether a constitutional democracy actually delivers or not what it has promises. The Constitution guarantees justice, liberty, equality, and fraternity to the people, and how well those guarantees hold up in practice depends […]
ONLINE DEFAMATION RECONCILING FREE SPEECH WITH THE RIGHT TO REPUTATION IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Defamation, at its core, protects an interest that predates the internet by centuries: a person’s reputation in the eyes of others. Section 499 of the erstwhile Indian Penal Code, and now Section 356 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (“BNS”), defines defamation as the making or publishing of any imputation concerning a person, by words, […]
HUMAN RIGHTS IN INDIA: CONSTITUTIONAL GUARANTEES, JUDICIAL EVOLUTION, AND CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES
India’s human rights system is built upon a carved Constitution that ensures enforceable fundamental rights, a judiciary motivated to interpret these rights broadly, and a collection of statutory bodies established to oversee adherence. Over time, the Supreme Court has expanded Article 21 from a limited protection against arbitrary government actions to include rights to privacy, […]
EUTHANASIA – HARISH RANA V. UNION OF INDIA, 2026
On 11 March 2026, a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India comprising J.B. Pardiwala and K.V. Viswanathan, JJ. delivered its judgment in Harish Rana v. Union of India, authorising for the first time the actual withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment from a patient in a Permanent Vegetative State (“PVS”).The Harish Rana judgment of 2026 […]
MENSTRUAL HYGIENE, A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT- CASE COMMENTARY ON DR. JAYA THAKUR V UOI
Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) has been highlighted by the recent judgment of Dr. Jaya Thakur V UOI. This case commentary tries to analyse the judgment with respect to modern jurisprudence and scrutinise the ground realities while tracking the trajectory of the development for the given issue under consideration. It tries to give a detailed perspective […]
CASE COMMENTARY: JANE KAUSHIK V. UNION OF INDIA & ORS
Indian law has recognised the third gender but the question of substantive equality and protection of the community with added duty towards them by the state remain shadowed. The nature of the discussion finally found a forum in the recent judgment of Jane Kaushik v. Union of India & Ors. This case commentary tries to […]
DEEPFAKES AND THE LAW: FROM IT ACT 66E TO BNS
The increasing uncertainty around the use of technology has made it essential to understand the laws that govern their misuse. The provisions that provide for protection in case of such violations like deepfakes, etc must be known to the general public in order to better understand their rights and seek protection and justice. The purpose […]
INDIA’S FASTEST COURT? WHY THE CHILD WELFARE COMMITTEE MAY BE THE MOST RESPONSIVE INSTITUTION IN INDIA’S JUSTICE SYSTEM
Child Welfare Committee is the new age justice that needs to be made aware about. The idea of protection of children has been institutionalized with the establishment of the bench. The quick decision making aligned with dedicated institutions for the safety of children is fundamental for the success of such establishments. The present article touches […]