17 articles tagged with Article 21. Latest first.
A division bench of the Bombay High Court has directed the Maharashtra Government to constitute an Expert Committee within four weeks to audit the working of the Maharashtra Slum Areas Act, 1971, finding that despite five decades of operation and continuous amendment, the statute has not delivered on its remedial purpose.
A division bench of the Karnataka High Court has quashed a 2025 State circular that excluded transgender candidates from applying to constabulary posts under the Reserve Police Constabulary recruitment, holding that the circular was inconsistent with NALSA and with the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019.
Half a century after ADM Jabalpur, Justice H.R. Khanna's solitary dissent reads less like a counterargument and more like the only judgment that survived. A reconstruction of what he refused to concede, and why his colleagues refused with him.
The Lucknow bench rules that listing a case crime number in the arrest memo is not enough — and holds the State liable after three months of illegal detention.
A unanimous nine-judge bench overruled six decades of precedent, holding that the right to privacy inheres in every person as an intrinsic part of Article 21 and the freedoms guaranteed by Part III.
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