Anshika Patel and Yashasvi Singh argue that the “public interest” defence to promissory estoppel is being raised against the Indian State with insufficient judicial scrutiny, thereby watering down a doctrine that is supposedly designed to hold government to its promises. Their organising lens is the Supreme Court’s February 2025 decision in Puja Ferro Alloys Pvt. Ltd. v State of Goa, where the Court upheld the withdrawal of a long-standing electricity tariff rebate on grounds

Soham Gupta argues that the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025 creates a structural constitutional crisis by undermining India's federal architecture, violating fundamental rights, and impermissibly delegating legislative authority. The paper advances a three-pronged critique: first, that the Act breaches federalism by enabling Parliament to regulate a subject constitutionally reserved for the States under Entry 34 of the State List; second, that it introduce

Asst. Prof. Preeti Badola argues that legal reasoning is the normative foundation of judicial legitimacy and accountability, particularly in a common law system where precedents derive their binding force from their underlying rationale rather than their outcomes. The paper contends that the Supreme Court of India has displayed significant inconsistency in its reasoning by selectively invoking constitutional principles and departing from earlier precedents without adequately

Rudraksh Lakra and Medha Kolanu argue that contemporary surveillance is no longer centred on the interception of individual communications but on the ability of the state to search and analyse vast interconnected databases. The paper contends that existing privacy scholarship inadequately addresses how constitutional law should regulate database searches and proposes a query-based framework that evaluates surveillance by examining three factors: the scope and design of the qu

Dr. Asang Wankhede argues that constitutional recognition of Marathas as a socially and educationally backward class, and the consequent grant of reservation benefits, is legally untenable under India’s settled reservation jurisprudence. Tracing successive legislative and executive attempts by the Maharashtra government, from the 2014 Ordinance and ESBC Act to the 2018 and 2024 SEBC Acts and the Kunbi certification exercise, the paper contends that each has failed because emp

In this article, Yash Sinha challenges the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Anjum Kadari v Union of India, arguing that the basic structure doctrine should not be confined to constitutional amendments but must also extend to ordinary legislation that threatens the Constitution’s foundational identity. Rejecting the formal distinction between constitutional amendments and ordinary laws, the author contends that judicial review is inherently flexible and that the doctrine is