PETA India once again locks horns with temple elephant Lakshmi
PETA India once again has petitioned the Madras High Court to translocate Lakshmi, the elephant of Manakula Vinayakar Temple, Puducherry, back to a sanctuary…
Legal Activism
Justice for temple elephants – part 1
Will captive elephants in the country, which includes temple elephants and privately-owned elephants be banned? In 2014, a cabal of international and national animal rights NGOs, filed a case in…
Gautam Navlakha case exposes the judicial manipulations of the urban-naxals
Recently, the Supreme Court heard an appeal of NIA in the Gautam Navlakha case and made observations on how Gautam Navlakha misused the judiciary for his own ends. The media…
Adv. Chandni Shah fights for Chennai Jain bakery owner forced to shut shop by Islamic extremists
A Jain bakery owner in Chennai was recently arrested for privately sharing an image ad of his bakery with the added message ‘Made by Jains on orders, no Muslim staffs’…
Lutyens’ gang has laid groundwork to discredit election results on 23rd May
The mood in the anti-Modi camp is one of gloom and unease. Exit polls seem to be predicting a clear victory for the BJP-led NDA, and while such predictions need…
SC stops Shivaji Memorial construction after admitting FCRA-funded NGO’s petition, earlier rejected by HC
A Supreme Court (SC) bench consisting of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice SK Kaul has admitted a special leave petition (SPL) challenging the construction of the Shiv Samark (Chhatrapati…
Lutyens’ Delhi Swoons over Judge DY Chandrachud, Calls him “True Liberal in Supreme Court”
A string of judgements by Supreme Court Judge DY Chandrachud in the last week have firmly established him as the cynosure of all eyes in Lutyens’ Delhi. “True liberal”, “hero”,…
Lawrence Liang, Founder of Alternative Law Forum, Found Guilty of Sexual Harassment
The Dean of Ambedkar University Delhi’s (AUD) law school, Lawrence Liang has been found guilty of sexually harassing a PhD student by the university’s Committee for Protection from Sexual Harassment…
Mismanagement of Temple Properties in Kerala – Interview with Sri G Ravilochanan of Indic Collective
The Indic Collective Trust (ICT) is a Chennai-based registered trust of activists, intellectuals and civil liberties advocates who are committed to an Indic Renaissance. The broad objective of the ICT…
PILs by Foreign Funded NGOs: Whose Interest is it Anyway?
In the historic judgment in the Judges’ Transfer case, the seven judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court held that any member of the public even if not directly involved…