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MR Shamshad

MR Shamshad

Articles by MR Shamshad

When a stay is sought on a court’s acquittal order

Our legal system ensures that, where circumstances are materially similar, past rulings — especially those of constitutional courts — guide future adjudication. (HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 31, 2025 15:12 IST

Rethink the immunity granted to governors

Serious allegations of sexual harassment and molestation have been levelled against the governor of West Bengal (Raj Bhavan West Bengal)

Updated on May 26, 2024 17:23 IST

Two SC orders reset crucial principles on arbitration

The Supreme Court (Sonu Mehta/HT PHOTO)

Updated on Jan 2, 2024 16:26 IST

Law doesn’t bar states from counting castes

An enumerator staff marks a house during the first phase of the caste-based census in Bihar, in Patna, January 7, 2023 (PTI)

Updated on Nov 1, 2023 17:23 IST

Homogeneity under UCC can be tricky legal terrain

The framing of the UCC debate is always in stark terms — gender justice versus the apprehensions of minorities

Updated on Aug 9, 2023 17:10 IST

Fortify the justice system to ensure bail is the norm

In 1979, SC stated that it was high time that the public conscience was awakened and the government and the judiciary realise that, in dark prison cells, several men and women are waiting, often in vain, for justice.

Updated on Aug 3, 2022 15:38 IST

What minority tag for Hindus means for India

In the pending case before the Supreme Court, initially, the central government appears to have taken the stand that Parliament and the state legislatures both have concurrent powers to decide on this. However, in a subsequent affidavit, the Centre held that the ability to notify minorities is vested with it. (REUTERS FILE PHOTO)

Updated on May 23, 2022 13:43 IST

Every final judgment may not necessarily be right and just

Devotees touch bricks with 'Shri Ram' embossed and engraved on them during a visit to the Ram Janm Bhoomi Nyas workshop at Karsevak Puram on the day of the Supreme Court verdict in the Ram Janmabhoomi Babri Masjid case, at Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh.

Updated on Nov 10, 2019 07:27 IST

For most Muslims, mosque crucial for namaz

The Supreme Court has declined to set up a larger bench to revisit a 1994 verdict which held that a “mosque is not an essential to the practise of Islam”, ruling that the top court had made the observation in the limited context of acquisition of land.

Updated on Sep 28, 2018 01:53 IST

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