India is grappling with a massive crisis that strikes at the core of justice — an overwhelmed judicial system burdened by an astonishing backlog of over 50 million criminal and civil cases. This ...

Chief Justice of India Surya Kant highlighted the critical role of district courts in the judicial system, emphasizing the ...

In most faiths judgment is delivered in the afterlife. India’s judiciary seems to have adopted a similar approach. Earlier this year in the central city of Bhopal, a newspaper revealed that a case ...

Even after 75 years of independence, the shadow of British rule continues to stretch across many of India's most fundamental ...

Sanjay Sanyal called for a major overhaul of the entire legal ecosystem, observing that its functioning suffers from a '99 and 1' problem – meaning that 99% of rules, regulations and policies are ...

Days after the Supreme Court of India’s landmark ruling against legalizing same-sex marriages, Chief Justice Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud sat down with Harvard Law Professor David B. Wilkins ’77 to ...

As Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, former CJI, aptly stated: ‘Confidence in the judicial process is predicated on the trust which its written word generates.’ On March 14, a fire erupted in the residential ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Karuna Nundy (@karunanundy) is an Advocate at the Supreme Court of India, and an ...

The Supreme Court of India deliberates on unregulated AI use in courts, underscoring human judgment, training, and safeguards ...

Retired Supreme Court Justice Abhay S Oka voiced serious concerns about increasing political interference in India's judiciary. He highlighted the Union government's request to reconsider a judge's ...

On 22nd June 2020, the Indian High Court of the State of Karnataka while granting anticipatory bail to a person accused of rape, observed that it is “unbecoming of an Indian woman” to “fall asleep” ...