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Judging Language

A new study examining 75 years of constitutional bench verdicts has opened an uncomfortable but necessary conversation: India’s highest court, even while expanding constitutional protections for Dalits, has often spoken in ways that perpetuate the very hierarchies it seeks to dismantle.

Life-term for man who killed wife for money

Sons of a woman had described before the Court how their father had 'brutally' thrashed their mother to death with a bamboo log as she'd failed to bring money from her parents, which helped the Burdwan Court to pronounce life term for the accused father yesterday.