The Leaflet

An independent platform for cutting-edge, progressive, legal & political opinion. Write to us at [email protected]

[The Leaflet @TheLeaflet_in]

While the Karnataka High Court’s order was careful and well-reasoned, its silence on the deeper questions of consent and bodily autonomy for persons with disabilities shows how little India’s law has settled, three decades after the Shirur home scandal.

https://t.co/EsrhLtGPlT

[The Leaflet @TheLeaflet_in]

Amid a live split in Supreme Court jurisprudence on Article 21 and bail under special statutes, the Delhi High Court’s order granting bail after nearly five years’ incarceration marks a return to the constitutional reasoning laid down in Union of India v. K.A. Najeeb.

https://t.co/UP8BnawBYn

[The Leaflet @TheLeaflet_in]

India scored an overall 4.8 out of 10 in the category of ‘Safety from the State’ which was marked as ‘worse than average’ in comparison to other south asian countries. It also scored abysmally low in the categories of ‘Right to freedom from torture and ill treatment and the freedom from arbitrary arrest’ in comparison to other rights that constituted the category of ‘Safety from the State’.

https://t.co/jOs9ufRaw2

[The Leaflet @TheLeaflet_in]

Supreme Court orders comedian Samay Raina, and others to pay Rs 3 lakh each for reneging on their undertakings.

“However, the carceral disability justice approach will not be enough to overcome the attitudinal barrier in a society that is based on deep social inequities,” wrote Professor Vijay K. Tiwari (@EkDiary59334) for The Leaflet in September 2025.

Read the full article here:
https://t.co/Q0oQJDJnHJ

[The Leaflet @TheLeaflet_in]

The proposals on seat expansion, women’s reservation, and delimitation seek to reconfigure the architecture of India’s political system in ways that could make the BJP’s electoral dominance easier to sustain. It could fundamentally rebalance political power across regions, social groups, and genders, reshaping who is represented, from where, and in what proportions.

https://t.co/agJbPURXZ8

[The Leaflet @TheLeaflet_in]

The students of the Maharashtra National Law University, Nagpur staged a dissent as their deeply concerning demands remained unaddressed by the authorities . The demands ranged from safety concerns of a considerable amount of female students who stay at a hostel facility which is not situated in the main campus and additionally houses male students from other colleges who attempt to approach by misusing the absence of security on the floors occupied by the female students, to the absence of a functional canteen in light of the university being situated nearly 25 kms away from the Nagpur city.

Read the full report here:
https://t.co/quBF6jkl2y

#MNLUNagpur #Dissent

[The Leaflet @TheLeaflet_in]

In the 2026 edition of the Human rights tracker report by the Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI) , India scored a 74.2 percent in the category of ‘Quality of Life’ which was marked as ‘ close to average’ in comparison to other South Asian Countries . Amongst the rights comprising the ‘Quality of Life’ category India scored the lowest in right to food with a staggering 59.1 percent.

Read the full report here:
https://t.co/jOs9ufRaw2

#HRMIReport2026 #HumanRightsTracker2026

[The Leaflet @TheLeaflet_in]

In May, the International Court of Justice delivered a landmark advisory opinion affirming that the right to strike is protected under international law.

“But a complete understanding of its after effect can only be possible when the judgment is carefully examined for what i) it says in explicit terms ii) it left unsaid. It is to be observed then that the Court has clinically and craftily chosen the combination of ‘vocal’ and ‘silent’ forms of communication through its judgment as a balancing act between two pivotal forces; ‘capital’ and ‘labour’.”

Rohit Mani Tiwari writes for The Leaflet:
https://t.co/LGstMR8LWv

[The Leaflet @TheLeaflet_in]

The proposals on seat expansion, women’s reservation, and delimitation seek to reconfigure the architecture of India’s political system in ways that could make the BJP’s electoral dominance easier to sustain. It could fundamentally rebalance political power across regions, social groups, and genders, reshaping who is represented, from where, and in what proportions.

https://t.co/agJbPURXZ8

[The Leaflet @TheLeaflet_in]

Raising concerns about the large-scale erosion of #women and #transgender voters from the electoral rolls, post-SIR, the All-India Feminist Alliance wrote to the Election Commission of India.

The PGRS cell of ECI responded saying that the query was 'not related to the Election Commission of India', and hence could not be processed.

The fifty signatories had appealed to ECI to ensure that women or transgender persons are not left out of the voter lists on account of systemic problems in the process.

Read the full report:
https://t.co/Dc2vcmh2oV

[The Leaflet @TheLeaflet_in]

Is the right to strike protected under the international legal framework of the Convention No. 87 ‘Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize? According to the International Court of Justice’s recent verdict, yes.

“A thunderous affirmation of this right shall definitely reach the local level, but the question is how the right to strike shall pan out when the Court kept mum on other crucial aspects, like content and scope, or the capacity of the supervisory bodies that design it.”

Rohit Mani Tiwari writes for The Leaflet:
https://t.co/LGstMR8LWv

[The Leaflet @TheLeaflet_in]

While the ICJ has affirmed the right to strike in principle, its silence on the right’s scope and the authority of the ILO’s supervisory bodies risks leaving the verdict an unfinished promise.

https://t.co/Z1f4N90KFZ

[The Leaflet @TheLeaflet_in]

Fifty signatories, including activists, lawyers and researchers, have urged the ECI to fix the Special Intensive Revision’s patriarchal documentation norms, warning that women, transgender persons and minority communities are being disproportionately struck off electoral rolls.

https://t.co/Dc2vcmguzn

[The Leaflet @TheLeaflet_in]

After student protests on infrastructural lethargy, security concerns and health facilities, MNLU Nagpur’s administration has conceded to some demands. But what does this tell us about the broad issues plaguing NLUs?

https://t.co/sKHwe12Meh

[The Leaflet @TheLeaflet_in]

Universities across the world such as Harvard, Stanford, Duke, Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania actively encourage integrated MD-JD programmes. Modern challenges cannot be solved through legal reasoning or medical expertise in isolation.

Every practising #doctor navigates questions of informed consent, confidentiality, professional ethics and patients' rights and legal obligations relating to maintenance of medical records, medical termination of pregnancy, biomedical waste management, data protection and medical negligence are inextricably woven into routine medical practice.

However, recently the Kerala HC ruled that a registered homeopathic doctor must cancel her medical registration before enrolling as an advocate which has raised questions.

Anchal Bhateja writes for The Leaflet https://t.co/6uhFoGQs0U

[The Leaflet @TheLeaflet_in]

“The reason a court reaches so easily for human safety versus animal interest is Agnosia: a cultivated almost trained blindness. When a child is hurt, we see the dog with absolute clarity but we do not see the municipal neglect of waste collection, sterilisation drives and the absence of animal shelters” - Professor Vivek Mukherjee the faculty coordinator of the Animal Rights Centre on the question of an inclination of the State towards its obligation under Article 21 prevailing over ordinary animal welfare regulations.

#StrayDogJudgment #AnimalRightsJurisprudence

https://t.co/rUz2tRdejd

[The Leaflet @TheLeaflet_in]

‘Supreme Court’s recent observations recognise a reality that young lawyers have always known: the ability to remain in litigation is often determined not by merit, hard work or professional ability, but by access to financial support during the formative years of practice’- in their latest piece Sampreetha Senthilkumar and Clifton D’Rozario deftly identify the hard truth behind what it truly takes for young lawyers to withstand their ground whilst carving their path in the realm of litigation as a career path.

#Litigation #YoungLawyersProfessionalAssistanceFund

https://t.co/LKxz6MRF4n

[The Leaflet @TheLeaflet_in]

‘They Created a Nation’ explores the winding journey of the ‘due process’ clause in Article 21 – from Frankfurter’s warning to Justice Subba Rao’s act of resurrection – and the judicial innovation it has enabled over 70 years.

https://t.co/3AamxMno8B

[The Leaflet @TheLeaflet_in]

Becoming a #doctor requires five-and-a-half years of undergraduate medical education, a compulsory rotating internship and, another three years of postgraduate specialisation. Government spends an estimated ₹30–35 lakh per student on an annual basis and the same qualification in a private medical college can cost over ₹4.5 crore.

Recently, the Kerala HC ruled that a registered homeopathic doctor must cancel her medical registration before enrolling as an advocate.

Why should the State compel a professional to surrender statutory recognition of expertise that society has invested so heavily in creating merely because she wishes to pursue another profession?

Anchal Bhateja writes for The Leaflet https://t.co/6uhFoGQs0U

[The Leaflet @TheLeaflet_in]

In an interview with The Leaflet , Professor Vivek Mukherjee a faculty coordinator of the NALSAR’s Animal Law Centre which played a pivotal role in making a staunch representation as an educational institution against the removal of dogs from public institution in the suo moto case on stray dogs expressed his unease with the premise of ‘human safety and animal welfare being opposed’ to each other.

Read the full interview here:
https://t.co/rUz2tRdejd

#StrayDogJudgement #AnimalRights