Kelsen Without Kelsenians: A Profile of Pure Theory's Strange Indian Career
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Not many people can afford to travel to Delhi: the Court doubts whether a writ petition with criminal roots can be stripped of its intra-court appeal
Justices Dipankar Datta and Sheel Nagu held that civil contempt is not an exercise of criminal jurisdiction, listed four situations in which an intra-court appeal lies against a contempt order, and referred Ram Kishan Fauji for reconsideration.
A clerical error by a university the police were investigating left a Sub-Inspector working without salary for four years
Justices Vikram Nath, Augustine George Masih and Sandeep Mehta refused to send him to a civil court, gave the university three weeks to verify his degree and his employer four more to release the arrears.
A notification struck down in 2022 was used to reserve two-thirds of 5,772 teaching posts in 2023, and the advertisement has now been quashed
Justice Amitendra Kishore Prasad held the State could not treat a quashed notification as alive merely because an SLP was pending, but let the appointments stand with a mandatory condition written into every order.
He said the land sales predated his election so the State was really unseating him, and the Court pointed to what he did after taking office
Justice Amitendra Kishore Prasad upheld the removal and next-term disqualification of the President of Nagar Panchayat Bilaigarh, holding that Section 41-A operates independently of an election challenge under Section 20.
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Not many people can afford to travel to Delhi: the Court doubts whether a writ petition with criminal roots can be stripped of its intra-court appeal
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A clerical error by a university the police were investigating left a Sub-Inspector working without salary for four years
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A student entering a four-year course should know at the threshold what it will cost, and the State's seven-year delay is not a reason to change the price halfway
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The Board proved the new bids were lower than the bidders' own old ones, and never proved they were lower than what the market would pay. Those are not the same conclusions
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A ₹22.6 crore claim settled at ₹1.34 lakh, and the Revenue's appeal against it died on a clock it started 35 days late
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Kelsen Without Kelsenians: A Profile of Pure Theory's Strange Indian Career
Kelsen Without Kelsenians: A Profile of Pure Theory's Strange Indian Career
Read essay →The Purpose of Article 30: Satish Chandra Sharma's Dissent on Establishment, Administration, and Aligarh Muslim University
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Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh: Patna, Ranchi, Agartala, Hyderabad, and now the Supreme Court
A decade at the Patna Bar, 11 years on the Jharkhand bench and Chief Justiceships at Tripura and Telangana preceded Justice Singh's oath at the Supreme Court on 6 October 2026.
Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya: two Chief Justiceships, then the Supreme Court
Chief Standing Counsel for Uttar Pradesh before his elevation in 2011, and Chief Justice of first Bombay and then Delhi, Justice Upadhyaya took oath at the Supreme Court on 6 October 2026.
Justice Sunita Agarwal: 21 years at the Allahabad Bar, then the Supreme Court
Elevated from the Bar in 2011 and Chief Justice of the Gujarat High Court since July 2023, Justice Agarwal is the third woman on the sitting Supreme Court bench.