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The Supreme Court removed the three-month age cap on maternity benefit for adoptive mothers. The judgment recasts the benefit around caregiving, not biology.
Read ArticleEp. 5 “Picking the Referee”: how arbitrators actually get appointed, and what happens when someone stalls.
Read ArticleThe 2017 Puttaswamy judgment gave privacy constitutional status. The harder question is whether India's data-protection law can live up to it.
Read ArticleA classic courtroom novel that asks whether a fair process can overcome a community that has already made up its mind.
Read ArticleA Gujarat man drowned during a river bath with two friends in 2006. Two decades later, the Supreme Court asked: had anyone actually proved it was murder?
Read ArticleEp. 4 “Starting the Clock”: the notice nobody reads twice, and the deadline it quietly sets.
Read ArticleWhat happens when a criminal case is considered over, but the person convicted was actually a child when the offence took place?
Read ArticleEp. 3 “I’ll just sue instead”: why walking away from arbitration almost never works.
Read ArticleWhat a one-word change reveals about Parliament's power, state consultation and the federal balance.
Read ArticleThe file is only the legal version of the story.
Read ArticleEp. 2 “Shall” vs. “May”: the one word that decides whether you even have a choice.
Read ArticleThe Court's new model combines one year of District Court practice with Judicial Academy training and a structured clerkship before regular judicial service.
Read ArticleEp. 1 “Final and binding”: the two scariest words in your contract
Read ArticleConstitutional privacy was built for searches and warrants. India has quietly moved into a world of continuous, automated watching without fully updating the law to match.
Read ArticleIt is the ultimate legal showdown: does this rescue people from endless litigation loops, or has the court opened the floodgates for judges to rewrite private contracts?
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