Law

The India Forum's articles on law that have been published since 2019.

Amendments to Restrict Creating New Waqfs

The new waqf law is worrying because it grants unchecked administrative power without any clear standards for fair action. It applies unevenly across religions and provides a potentially biased…
▶11-May-2025
M. R. Shamshad

The Illegality and Inhumanity of Women in Pre-trial Detention: Gulfisha's Poems

Gulifisha’s continued imprisonment without trial and her poetry on the injustice of pre-trial detention showcase the masculinist carceral culture of the Indian State.
▶04-May-2025
Pratiksha Baxi

Uttarakhand Uniform Civil Code: Excessive Bureaucracy, Few Rights

The Uttarakhand law may violate privacy and religious freedoms by imposing controls on marriage, live-ins, and divorce – measures that can disproportionately burden women and inter-faith couples.…
▶29-Apr-2025
Aarti Mundkur

Government’s Presumptive Claim on Waqf Properties

The Waqf (Amendment) Act of 2025 has been challenged on constitutional grounds. In the first of a series of articles examining important issues raised by the amendment, a discussion here on the…
▶24-Apr-2025
M. R. Shamshad

What Can We Expect of International Law?

International law, rather than dictate state actions, persuades states to develop publicly defensible legal and moral positions, and in the process, generates accountability.
▶23-Apr-2025
Raag Yadava
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Reorienting the Lens on Judicial Reforms

Most litigants will never end up in a high court; their cases will remain in the labyrinths of district courts. Yet, reforms at the base of the judicial pyramid have not got the required attention.
▶02-Apr-2025
Abhinav Sekhri

Where is the Data on the 'Misuse' of 498-A?

The popular discourse around the notion that laws enacted to protect women are being ‘grossly misused’ seems to have reached a fever pitch. The Supreme Court, itself, in the past has called it “legal…
▶11-Mar-2025
Ruchira Goswami

No Country for (Married) Women

'A culture where the rights of women and sexual and gender minorities can be wholly erased without even having to defend such a move clearly shows where the centre of power lies, and how it…
▶10-Mar-2025
Kunal Ambasta

Justice in India: Between Retribution and Reform

Balancing popular desire for immediate justice with the principle of due process is a delicate act, especially when there is distrust against the system and frustrations at delays. The tensions…
▶17-Dec-2024
N. Anand Venkatesh

Restoring a Rule of Law: On Bail and Judicial Delays

Bail has to be rooted in the ordinariness of statutory remedies if it has to be consistent and fair. It cannot be that relief to undertrials must depend on the personal sense of a superior court…
▶04-Dec-2024
Abhinav Sekhri