Former Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud believes that the Indian judicial system is transforming and is no longer being presided over by a group of “elite of male Hindu, upper caste men”.

This is the first time that an entire district-level judiciary has transitioned to a fully digital, end-to-end system.

Days after the Supreme Court of India’s landmark ruling against legalizing same-sex marriages, Chief Justice Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud sat down with Harvard Law Professor David B. Wilkins ’77 to ...

In most faiths judgment is delivered in the afterlife. India’s judiciary seems to have adopted a similar approach. Earlier this year in the central city of Bhopal, a newspaper revealed that a case ...

India is grappling with a massive crisis that strikes at the core of justice — an overwhelmed judicial system burdened by an astonishing backlog of over 50 million criminal and civil cases. This ...

On December 29, SC issued a circular ordering prioritisation of cases involving people with disabilities. While lawyers ...

Learn how the hierarchy of courts in India is structured, from village courts to the Supreme Court, and understand how cases ...

The Kalpetta judicial district in Kerala's Wayanad has become the first entirely paperless district court system in India.

Sandhya Fuchs receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust, the Wenner Gren Foundation and the Swiss National Fund On a crisp winter morning in February 2023, I meet one of my South Delhi neighbours, a ...

The Supreme Court of India recently rejected a petition to legalize same-sex marriage, setting back the goal of marriage equality in the country even further. In a country estimated to have at least 2 ...

Justice Surya Kant has recently taken oath as the 53rd Chief Justice of India (CJI) at a time when India’s justice system is not merely burdened but is at its tipping point of explosion. With judicial ...