India: Constitutional & Administrative Law

The enactment of the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 was conceived as a beneficial and self-contained legislative code designed to safeguard the interests of home buyers and ensure timely...

On 16 September 2025, the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) released the draft Civil Drone (Promotion and Regulation) Bill, 2025 (hereafter the “Bill”) which is the most extensive legislative revision...

The Supreme Court examined the validity of Haryana Government's 2014 notifications that sought to regularize ad hoc employees, addressing the critical question of whether regularization without public advertisement violates principles of fair employment. The judgment distinguishes between employees appointed against sanctioned posts with proper qualifications versus those regularized arbitrarily based on length of service alone.

The Supreme Court of India has mandated that Rajasthan formulate a comprehensive policy to introduce Rajasthani as a subject in all schools, reinforcing constitutional principles of mother tongue-based education.

The proliferation of online content platforms has generated persistent tension between the rights of individuals to seek redress for reputational harm and the statutory protections afforded to digital intermediaries...

In the world of arbitration, few distinctions are as doctrinally significant, yet as frequently misunderstood, as the difference between the “seat” and the “venue” of arbitration.

In a recent ruling, the Division Bench of the Bombay High Court, Nagpur Bench (“Bombay HC”) in Dr. Meenakshi Muthiah v. State of Maharashtra1, observed that the right to maternity leave is an integral facet of a woman’s fundamental right to life under Article 21 of the Constitution of India,1950 (“Constitution”) and cannot be curtailed by service bonds, contractual obligations, or administrative instructions. The Bombay HC emphasised that maternity leave cannot be treated as a break in service and that penalising a woman for availing maternity leave would undermine the dignity of motherhood and the constitutional mandate of social justice.

India’s digital regulatory framework is once again at a turning point. The Central Government has proposed amendments to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (“IT Rules”), signalling a significant expansion of State oversight over online content.

In a landmark decision that marked India’s first judicially sanctioned case of passive euthanasia, the Supreme Court in March 2026 delivered its order in Harish Rana v. Union of India, permitting the withdrawal of life support from a patient who had remained in a Persistent Vegetative State (PVS) for 13 years following a road accident.