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The Security Review Committee had assessed Harbhajan Singh’s threat perception on 3 March 2026, nearly two months before he left the Aam Aadmi Party. Punjab & Haryana HC held the timing was coincidental, not retaliatory and that his Y+ CRPF cover and State’s undertaking of local deployment adequately addressed his security concerns.
Kerala HC stated that the duty of the Court is to uphold the democracy and ensure that the democratic procedures are strictly followed. However, in extraordinary situation, Court must take extraordinary decision to protect the democratic principles and people’s mandate.
The Allahabad High Court clarified that the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991 does not curtail the State’s power to acquire religious properties for a public purpose, including road widening and infrastructure development.
A quick roundup to cover all the important legal developments and cases this week.
The Court examined the scope of Section 29-A, Representation of the People Act, 1951 and reaffirmed the limited circumstances in which deregistration is legally permissible.
The criteria prescribed was not in any manner watered down or deviated from the criteria required to be satisfied while seeking regular appointment.
In the special session, the Lok Sabha did not adopt the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill after it failed to secure the special majority required under Article 368, resulting in the withdrawal of the associated Delimitation and Union Territories Laws Bills.
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Observing that decontextualised criticism in a school curriculum may undermine institutional dignity and influence impressionable minds, the Supreme Court ordered seizure of all copies of the NCERT Grade-8 textbook and issued show-cause notices for criminal contempt.
“The right to personal development is an integral facet of the right to life and personal liberty under Article 21 of the Constitution, and, therefore, any interpretation of ‘custody principles’ must be interpreted in a manner that not only respects and upholds this constitutional guarantee but also is in sync thereof.”
The Court in Meena A Jagtap v. Bar Council of India, 2025 SCC OnLine SC 2749, directed that 30% posts of Executive Members along with that of ‘Treasurer’ of Gujarat High Court Bar Associations as well as all the District Bar Associations shall be exclusively earmarked/reserved for women advocates.
“Bar Association is a body of private individual lawyers and in normal discharge of its functions, it does not perform any function which can be said to be a public function”
Pakistan’s judiciary faced upheaval as two Supreme Court judges resigned after the 27th Constitutional Amendment created a Federal Constitutional Court and curtailed Supreme Court powers
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Himachal Pradesh National Law University (HPNLU), Shimla, hosted the 4th Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer Annual Law Lecture, where Justice Sanjeev Khanna delivered a thought-provoking address on “The Preamble and the Basic Structure Doctrine.” The event also marked the inauguration of HPNLU’s new Digitized Library, reinforcing the University’s commitment to constitutional learning and digital academic innovation.
by Siddharth R. Gupta* and Vedanshi Gangrade**
by Siddharth R. Gupta* and Akash Tiwari**
“The Constitution is a living document. We can’t bind the future generations to stick up to the Constitution that we are adopting today, and the future generations should have an opportunity to amend the Constitution, so as to adapt to the societal economic changes that the future generations would come across.”
