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Utpal Kushwaha

Utpal Kushwaha writes legal essays and analysis for LegalRepublic.in.

2 articles · The Republic

[ The Republic ]

India borrowed due process from America and pretended it didn't

The Constituent Assembly looked at American due process in 1948 and refused it after Frankfurter himself counselled against it. Thirty years later the Supreme Court read it back into the Constitution and forty years on, Indian scholarship i

2026-05-12 · 22 min read

[ The Republic ]

The master of the roster: a power that grew while no one was watching

The Chief Justice's power to constitute benches and assign cases is now treated as plenary. It was not designed to be. The four-judges press conference of 2018 raised the question; eight years on, the power has grown without anyone settling

2026-05-10 · 7 min read