Why the Solicitor General Is Wrong to Call for PILs to Be Scrapped

Tushar Mehta’s remarks calling public interest litigations “self-employment generating petitions” sound like a complete and summary rejection of the concept and reek of contempt.   One of the Indian government’s senior-most legal officers, solicitor general Tushar Mehta said in the Supreme Court on April 3, 2020, that “’professional PIL shops’ must be locked down.” This has created […]

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The Supreme Court Seems to Be Vacillating Between Being Progressive and Regressive

When it comes to cases of a political nature, the phenomenon of vacillation seems particularly pronounced as seen when the SC ruled against debarring persons with criminal cases pending against them from contesting elections. The Supreme Court of India seems to be vacillating between being progressive and regressive. Of course, the nature of the issue […]

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