Major Kavish

Solitary confinement. Iron fetters. No trial needed. One letter changed that.

Sunil Batra, on death row in Tihar, was thrown into solitary confinement even though his case wasn't final. Later, he wrote a judge a letter about a fellow prisoner brutalised by a warder. The Court treated the letter itself as a petition.

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Her son died in police custody. The state called it an escape. She proved otherwise.

Orissa, 1987. Suman Behera, 22, was picked up by police for questioning in a theft case. The next morning, his body lay on railway tracks, covered in injuries. Police claimed he had escaped and been hit by a train. His mother wrote to the Supreme Court.

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India had NO law on workplace sexual harassment. So the Supreme Court wrote one.

Rajasthan, 1992. Bhanwari Devi, a grassroots government worker, tried to stop a child marriage. In retaliation, she was gang-raped. The trial court acquitted the accused. Women's groups, filing as 'Vishaka,' took a bigger question to the Supreme Court: where was the law protecting working women?

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Criminal Law Cannot Be Used For Purely Civil Disputes: Supreme Court Quashes FIR

The Supreme Court has held that criminal proceedings cannot be sustained where the underlying dispute is purely civil in nature.

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Acquitted in 1968. Released in 1982. Then he made the state pay.

Rudul Sah was acquitted of murder in June 1968. Bihar's jail administration simply never released him. He stayed behind bars for over 14 years — no order, no reason, just files nobody moved — until a habeas corpus petition reached the Supreme Court.

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Convicted MPs kept their seats while appeals crawled for years. Then came this case.

The Representation of the People Act had an escape hatch — Section 8(4): a sitting MP or MLA convicted of a crime kept the seat as long as an appeal was pending. And appeals take a decade. Veteran advocate Lily Thomas challenged the hatch itself.

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Supreme Court Lays Down 4-Step Test For Quashing Criminal Cases Based On Defence Material

The Supreme Court has reiterated that criminal proceedings can, in exceptional cases, be quashed before trial based on reliable material produced by the accused.

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Supreme Court Disposes PIL Against Police Sharing Accused Persons’ Photos And Details Before Conviction

The Supreme Court has disposed of a PIL challenging the practice of police authorities publishing photographs, videos, names and other personal details of accused persons on official social media accounts and digital platforms before conviction.

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Jailed for years — for trials that never even began.

1979. A newspaper series exposed Bihar's jails: thousands of undertrials — many locked up longer than the maximum sentence for their alleged crime — waiting for trials that hadn't started. Advocate Kapila Hingorani took the articles to the Supreme Court. It became India's first PIL.

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Your right to remain silent doesn't start in court. It starts at the police station.

Former Odisha Chief Minister Nandini Satpathy was summoned to a police station in a corruption probe and handed a long written questionnaire. She refused to answer questions that could incriminate her — and was promptly prosecuted for the refusal itself.

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