Mansi Jain

Lawyer. Au Courant. Voracious reader. Ferocious rationalist. Book curator. Rest TBD.

[Saurav Das @SauravDassss]

I wish more judges, police persons, politicians think like this judge. True democracy does not restrict protests. Or impose mandatory “permission” for it. The very concept of asking the state to “allow” a protest from 10 AM-5 PM is BIZARRE. If anything, there should be a rule that senior officials and ministers would visit the protesters at 5 PM to understand their problems and promise action. That would be true democracy in action.

[Live Law @LiveLawIndia]

Merely because a citizen is opposing certain decisions of the Union Government and raising slogans against it cannot be a ground to extern a citizen from any area, held the Bombay High Court.

Read more: https://t.co/68kUiM4Frj

[Mansi Jain @TopKnotAndKeys]

@PRAVESHPARAS She made a really damaging statement against a religious minority and the accusation is completely baseless! A community leader which has determined to live off the land as is and not hurt anyone by mind or actions should not be made to pay heed to such comments.

[Pravesh Jain @PRAVESHPARAS]

हाल ही में मेनका गांधी ने दिल्ली में दिगंबर जैन आचार्य सौरभ सागर जी महाराज से मुलाकात के दौरान विवादित बयान दिया। उन्होंने कहा कि जैन मुनि सब कुछ त्याग चुके हैं, फिर भी मोर पंख की पीछी क्यों रखते हैं? उन्होंने आरोप लगाया कि जैन मुनियों की पीछी के लिए देश भर में 15 लाख मोरों की हत्या की जाती है।
जैन समुदाय ने इस बयान पर गहरा आक्रोश व्यक्त किया है। उनका स्पष्ट कहना है कि पीछी केवल उन मोर पंखों से बनाई जाती है जो मोर स्वयं झाड़ देते हैं। बिना किसी हिंसा के जंगलों से एकत्र किए जाते हैं। जैन धर्म का मूल सिद्धांत अहिंसा परमो धर्मः है। यहां एक छोटी सी चींटी की भी हत्या वर्जित है। दिगंबर मुनि कठोर तपस्या करते हैं और पीछी का उपयोग सूक्ष्म जीवों की रक्षा के लिए जमीन साफ करने में करते हैं।
देश में दिगंबर मुनियों की संख्या कुछ हजार (लगभग 1-2000) ही है, जबकि मोरों की आबादी लाखों में है और बढ़ रही है। जैन समुदाय मेनका गांधी @Manekagandhibjp से अपील करता है कि वे जैन मुनियों की तपस्या का अध्ययन करें, जैन धर्म का अध्ययन करे, किसी भी दिगंबर मुनि का एक सप्ताह अनुसरण करें और समुदाय व मुनियों का अनावश्यक अपमान न करें। जो भी मोर की हत्या करता है, उसे गिरफ्तार कर कड़ी सजा (मृत्युदंड तक) दी जानी चाहिए।
सभी जैन अहिंसा और पशु संरक्षण के पक्षधर हैं, लेकिन धार्मिक परंपराओं और मुनियों का सम्मान अपेक्षित है। जैन दिगंबर मुनियो के इस तरह अपमानित करने से देश भर में जैन समुदाय बहुत आहत और आक्रोशित है । @iamnarendranath @JournoAshutosh @LangaMahesh @sarikaj35842244 @TweepleLeaf @jainsarthak4 @sammedshikharji @vedjainca

[Mansi Jain @TopKnotAndKeys]

My inner voice from now on- “Bhaashan mat do.”
#yogijithebest #notaragebait

[Pravesh Jain @PRAVESHPARAS]

Our economy is in real trouble, but the government isn’t openly accepting it. Earlier, when India was smaller economy , we could manage problems easily. Now we are one of the world’s top economies, so mistakes hurt much more.
We are buying way more from other countries than we are selling. Even simple things like furniture, toys, cutlery , and even statues of Lord Ram and Krishna are coming from China. This creates a big current account deficit.
Earlier, foreigners used to invest heavily in India, which helped cover this gap. Now they are pulling out their money because the environment doesn’t feel safe. So both accounts are in deficit, current account is also in deficit and capital account is also in deficit, putting heavy pressure on the rupee.
The government doesn’t want the rupee to fall because of political and economic reasons , but it may go to 100 per dollar soon if things don’t improve. RBI is trying hard to hold it at 95-96, but it can’t last forever.
The PM’s appeal to reduce gold buying is good, but with global prices rising, it won’t have much effect. Global experts on bullion markets are saying that gold may touch 9000 dollars by mid 29 so Indian investors will not stop importing gold even with 15% duty. This is simple business and economic.
What should govt do now ?
First, the government must honestly admit there is a serious financial crisis. Petrol and diesel prices should have been increased by at least rupees 20 because the rupee fall has already wiped out small hikes of rupees 3 in petrol and diesel . This I am not saying but SBI largest bank of india is saying officially.
RBI is doing its job professionally and taking corrective measures but there is a limit of everything. Rupee is bound to fall below 100 soon. It is difficult to stop it.
Govt must stop freebies immediately. Provide ration to EWS. Don’t provide this free drug habit to our countrymen otherwise state government would not be able to salaries to their employees.
Govt must stop major projects for few months. Stop bothering heavily from World bank or IMF or any other institution of the world. These are basic things to follow. Bring schemes to boost foreign investors. Our stock market is highly overvalued because of punters in the stock market.
We also need strong diplomacy with Iran so our oil ships can safely pass through the Strait of Hormuz.@DILIPtheCHERIAN @iamnarendranath @MishraPrac @JournoAshutosh @SarveshMishra_ @bainjal @rohini_sgh @suhasinih @vijaita @maryashakil @ShekharGupta @NidhiKulpati5 @latha_venkatesh @ShereenBhan @nsitharaman @PMOIndia @TweepleLeaf @jainsarthak4 @RBI

[Pravesh Jain @PRAVESHPARAS]

Under Article 164(1) of the Indian Constitution, the Governor appoints the Chief Minister who, in their judgment, is likely to command the confidence of the Legislative Assembly. In a hung House (no party/coalition with clear majority of 118 in TN’s 234 seats). I agree that there is no rigid single largest party rule in the text, it’s a convention, not a constitutional mandate.
Mukul Rohatgi’s view aligns with settled practice (SR Bommai, 1994): Invite the single largest party (TVK with 108) first, )TVK has support of another 10) swear it in, and mandate a floor test soon to prove majority. The Assembly floor, not Raj Bhavan, is the sovereign test.
Harish Salve’s counter: The Governor exercises discretion (Article 163) to ensure prima facie stability. Asking for credible support (letters/numbers) before invitation is valid to avoid unstable governments; it’s not conducting a floor test at Raj Bhavan.
Clear law: Governor must act bona fide for stability; floor test is ultimate. Both experts highlight valid aspects, discretion vs. convention. Supreme Court precedents favor swift floor test over prolonged delay. Governor must call immediately to TVK and alliance party to form the government in Tamilnadu. TVK party has people’s mandate, may be few seats short.
Governor has to see , what is mandate of people. Governor should never act as a political tool. Constitutional experts have similar opinion except of Harish Salve who generally take and agree with whatever is govt’s position. I don’t know why ? @DILIPtheCHERIAN @iamnarendranath @NKSingh_MP @suhasinih @bainjal @PChidambaram_IN @KapilSibal @DrAMSinghvi @sanjayuvacha @akhileshsharma1 @BDUTT @NidhiKulpati5 @sardesairajdeep @TVKVijayHQ

[Live Law @LiveLawIndia]

Judges Who Can't Live Within Their Income & Fall Prey To Greed Must Be Weeded Out : Justice BV Nagarathna |@1Simranbakshi

https://t.co/sPU06WTzzD

[Press Trust of India @PTI_News]

VIDEO | Delhi: “Justice Yashwant Varma loses immunity after resignation; prosecution is possible,” says Senior Advocate Indira Jaising.

Varma has resigned from his position as a judge of the Allahabad High Court amid an ongoing impeachment process over corruption allegations.

He had come under scrutiny last year after a large amount of cash was recovered from his residence in Delhi. At the time, Varma denied that the money belonged to him.

[Priyanka Chaturvedi🇮🇳 @priyankac19]

With the resignation of Justice Yashwant Verma, here’s a replug of my zero hour intervention on accountability in judiciary

[Ashok Kumar @avadhootashok]

The cat is out of the bag! The article by brilliant @SauravDassss reveals why CBI insists for this Judge 2 preside @ArvindKejriwal case & why she refuses 2 recuse. The Govt has empanelled her son & daughter in d Delhi HC and SC as well. It shows the Judge's nexus with Executive!!

[Pravesh Jain @PRAVESHPARAS]

Finally justice Yashwant Verma has resigned before i judicial commission report is presented in both house of parliament for further process of impeachment proceedings . There was no option left to him. He could have honourably resigned when former chief justice of Supreme Court justice Sanjeev Khanna asked him to resign. But these advocates advise you to fight any and every case whether there is any scope or not. From the day one it was open and shut case. However Hundreds of questions will still remain unanswered . He must clarify each and every question so as to avoid any embarrassment in future and he can lead a peaceful life. Few are :
1) whose money was this ?
2) who removed the currency?
3) why didn’t he insist for FIR ?
4) why did he attend court for four days , inspite of chief justice asking him to continue?
5) why were he and other judges used to visit a real estate dalal house regularly.
He has done a correct thing. Late than never. He would have become Supreme Court judge if this case would not have come to light. It is a case of stars and destiny . God bless him. @DILIPtheCHERIAN @iamnarendranath @JournoAshutosh @bainjal @suhasinih @pbhushan1 @KapilSibal @DrAMSinghvi @vikaspahwasradv @sanjayuvacha @sardesairajdeep @SauravDassss @jainsarthak4 @TweepleLeaf @TopKnotAndKeys

[Saurav Das @SauravDassss]

#ImportantNews: The controversy over the alleged Delhi liquor-scam case before Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma is no longer confined to courtroom conduct alone. Now more troubling questions of proximity, patronage, conflict-of-interest, and the appearance of bias have come to light.

Several of the 23 dischargees in the case had formally sought Justice Sharma’s recusal from hearing the CBI’s challenge to their discharge. Even then, the judge has so far resisted calls to step aside, even as former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal himself appears in person to argue the recusal application. Arguments are now scheduled for Monday, 13 April 2026.

In my last Case In Point column for @frontline_india, I had already revealed, through an analysis of all the 165 criminal revision petitions of the same category as Kejriwal’s case, that Justice Sharma clearly departed from her usual pattern of handling such matters and had taken an unusually strange interest in this case. That, along with many other details that if read in singularity can be met with a shrug, but when read together, reveals a troubling pattern and credible fears of apprehension of bias in the liquor case. These by itself had raised serious questions. You may read my piece here: https://t.co/GtqFKFhRYY

What has surfaced now makes those questions HARDER to dismiss.

Justice Sharma’s son and daughter—Ishaan Sharma and Shambhavi Sharma—have both been empanelled by the Union government before the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court.

According to the empanelment details, both siblings were appointed on the very same days: 11 September 2025 for the Delhi High Court panels and 21 November 2025 for the Supreme Court panels.

1. Ishaan Sharma holds panels before both courts, including the highest Group A panel before the Supreme Court and Senior Panel Counsel status before the Delhi High Court.

2. Shambhavi Sharma, with mere four years of enrolment as advocate, too holds panels before both courts: Group C before the Supreme Court and Government Pleader before the Delhi High Court.

3. Ishaan Sharma also held a panel in the Delhi Development Authority (DDA), under the Union Housing Ministry, till at least 2024 (Check: https://t.co/4DsDonRCyE).

4. He also held a panel in the Delhi State Legal Services Authority since 2021 until at least the end of 2024 (Check: https://t.co/KnfZFVJhCs).

Panel counselship is among the most coveted forms of government legal patronage in the system. Ask any advocate and they will tell you how through these positions, the government allocates litigation, visibility, professional standing, and income. But the more important and troubling part is that they are positions held at the pleasure of the very government whose top law officers are now appearing before Justice Sharma in one of the most politically explosive cases in the country. And that is where the conflict sharpens.

Of course, one need not prove an explicit bargain but justice must also be SEEN to be done, especially when it is a case of public interest. The test for seeking recusal of a judge is whether there exists a reasonable apprehension of bias and whether public confidence in the fairness of the process has been impaired. Like I had explained in my column, Indian law on recusal has long recognised that what matters is not just actual bias, but whether a litigant could REASONABLY FEEL that justice may NOT appear to be done. Here, several of the 23 dischargees feel justice may not be done impartially.

And now this issue of one advocate, who happens to be the son of a judge, accumulating large number of panels within a relatively short post-enrolment period as an advocate. Ask any lawyer and they will tell you how many more accomplished, brilliant persons, with many more years as an advocate have failed to secure a panel through the formal process. The concerns are many.

In this case, the question is whether a judge can continue to hear a politically sensitive challenge brought by the CBI, while her kin hold multiple Union government panels and receive work from the same legal establishment whose top officers allocate cases to them and are now appearing before her?

Note this: as per one RTI reply I received, Ishaan Sharma was allocated 2,487 cases in 2023, 1,784 cases in 2024, and 1,633 cases in 2025. In both 2024 and 2025, he was allocated more case files than even Zoheb Hossain, the top, most publicly visible Enforcement Directorate lawyer—by 91 in 2024 and by 582 in 2025. This of course suggests the sustained and substantial allocation of state work before the son. The allocation is done by the topmost in the legal system.

Also, this is not the first time that such questions of potential conflict of interest have arisen. In September 2024, I had highlighted the case of Padmesh Mishra, whose appointments across multiple union government and Rajasthan government positions drew scrutiny after his father, Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra, was elevated to the Supreme Court. Check: https://t.co/TVr35PmPx3

The unease then was the same as it is now: when the children of sitting judges begin to accumulate government panels and positions in unusual concentration, something a regular lawyer, perhaps much more brilliant and of more history of practice, can only dream of, particularly after or around the parent’s rise within the judiciary, the issue is of institutional credibility.

And no one really needs to state that that credibility is already under strain. Recently, Justice Manmohan of the Supreme Court himself publicly flagged corruption in the appointment of panel counsels by the Union government, questioning whether such appointments are really being made on merit at all. In a system where even a sitting Supreme Court judge is warning that panel-counsel appointments may be infected by extraneous considerations, the appearance of conflict in the present case becomes still harder to shrug away. Check: https://t.co/RGSSDK7ekf

Seen in that light, the present controversy is again not whether Justice Sharma is actually biased. It is about whether the institution can credibly insist that there is nothing to see here. The CBI has just filed an affidavit supporting Justice Sharma. A judge who I have documented, as per her own orders, to show unusual interest in a politically sensitive matter now finds herself in a position where her own kind hold/held as many as SIX government panels between them, while their bosses continue to appear before her. Even if one were to assume the absence of any actual impropriety, does this arrangement augur well for the appearance of judicial independence, especially in this case? The question is whether this not enough evidence of apprehension of bias that should suffice for a recusal.

That is the question the High Court ought to have confronted with seriousness. Instead, by resisting recusal in these circumstances, the judge is unfortunately deepening this very suspicion that it should have avoided at all costs, or at least for the sake of institution.

[Mansi Jain @TopKnotAndKeys]

No answer on the bundles of currency found in his residence to this date.

[Live Law @LiveLawIndia]

#BREAKING

Justice Yashwant Varma resigns as a judge of the #AllahabadHighCourt. He submitted his resignation to @rashtrapatibhvn on April 9.

"I tender my resignation with deep anguish", he said.

[Dr.Sivaranjini @dr_sivaranjani]

Tired, but not giving up! Pls download and share before there is a gag order on me.
Thanks to @IndiaESI (who also impleaded in my PIL against misleading branding of sugary drinks as ORS), @FAIMA_INDIA_ , HRDA Andhrapradesh, HRDA Telangana, MARD Thane, MARD Nagpur, Junior Doctor's Association Ahmedabad, Telangana Junior Doctor's Association, Junior Doctor's Association Ranchi, T-SRDA, GARD, Telangana Doctor's Forum, RDA Aligarh, RDWS UP, IMA Telangana State, IMA Hyderabad Airport, Endocrine Society of Telangana, Indian Doctor's and Dermatologists against quackery, for condemning the notice of Johnson&Johnson and Kenvue in which they accused me of disparaging them for my commercial benefits and views! Thank you for staying by my side! Grateful!

[MN 🇧🇷 @NizzUtd]

An elderly woman in Kozhikode, Kerala, bravely stopped a scooty rider from misusing the footpath and sent him back to the road.
Her civic sense and determination truly deserve appreciation.

[Mansi Jain @TopKnotAndKeys]

#Delhi Chief Minister Gupta ma’am is making statements in public which fail to inspire the people already being crushed by lack of basic amenities. Then you have their leader show how little she knows about public policies when she doesn’t even read files. Well done, Delhi!

[Anuradha Tiwari @talk2anuradha]

A doctor found live insects in a Cream Bell drink consumed by a child patient.

Despite so much outrage, FSSAI is yet to act against the culprits.

These companies keep selling poison without any fear.

@fssaiindia is an absolute disgrace.

[Parminder Singh @parrysingh]

Chandigarh has many cafes and bistros now, somehow this booth remains my happy place!

[Dr.Sivaranjini @dr_sivaranjani]

Sir, @narendramodi and @jpnaddaoffice @fssai @mohfw, it's a national shame that FSSAI has consented to the request by JNTL(the Indian subsidiary of Kenvue which is a spin off of Johnson and Johnson) for a stay order to dispose of it's stock of high sugar ORSL!
Sir, not only now, in future also, except WHO recommended formula ORS, no sachet or tetrapack should be allowed in the pharmacies(including online), hospitals, and schools, as far as rehydrating medicines are concerned. ORS should never be allowed to be used on the labels except for WHO Recommended Formula ORS even if these liquids are being sold in the supermarkets and quick commerce platforms only! Trusting that you will ensure the October 15th order is implemented with urgency!