September 26, 2025 5:36 pm
Trump-led Republican Party came to power by labelling challenges to conservative beliefs as threats to fundamental rights. Now in power, they are enacting actual curbs on the right to free speech
June 24, 2025 12:51 pm
The SC earlier held that a gag order neither fits the illustrative bail conditions under Sections 437 and 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, nor does it have any nexus to a proper investigation or to secure the attendance of the accused
June 13, 2025 7:44 am
Crisis of free speech is crisis of social mistrust. Each act of legal censorship is a vote of no confidence in our autonomous agency
June 12, 2025 11:41 am
Condemning arrests for online posts, like Sharmistha Panoli’s, is crucial. But the discourse on free speech must be shaped by consistent legal principles, not selective outrage
June 03, 2025 12:26 pm
It is whether we are willing to live in a country where the price of speaking is a prison cell
May 28, 2025 1:14 pm
Bombay High Court has pulled up the police for arresting a college girl in Pune for merely sharing an Instagram post on Operation Sindoor
May 23, 2025 6:24 pm
He has been instrumental in relaxing bail conditions in special statutes like the UAPA and the PMLA, and often came down heavily on authorities for arbitrary and illegal demolitions
May 22, 2025 12:17 pm
That is the question when someone is arrested for what he says, or when we demand that someone be arrested for what he said
May 21, 2025 9:03 pm
The question arose over whether the mural was a piece of art or an advertisement.
April 29, 2025 10:55 pm
Former Mumford & Sons musician kicked up a storm by suggesting that a future Trump administration consider granting asylum to UK citizens allegedly facing jail time for exercising free speech.
June 22, 2020 6:22 pm
Justice Ranjan Gogoi spoke at length about the state of the Indian judiciary at the third Ramnath Goenka memorial lecture - The Vision of Justice. Among other things, he said there is a need for independent journalists and "sometimes, noisy judges".