Constitutional Morality

The judiciary's moral compass who blended ethicality with intellect, constitutional jurist Fali Sam Nariman will go down in legal history for his pivotal contribution to cases that have shaped India.

Bolivia's Constitutional Court has disqualified former president Evo Morales from running for re-election in 2025, reversing a ruling that had let him seek a fourth term in 2019.

In an interview with PTI, Mr Tewari said once the no-confidence motion has been tabled in the Lok Sabha, any legislation or material business brought before the House is "completely in violation of morality, propriety and parliamentary conventions".

We don't go by either "popular morality or segmental morality" but what the Constitution mandates, the Supreme Court observed on Wednesday when an argument was advanced before it that young same-sex couples across the country wanted to get married.

Known for controversial statements, Kailash Vijayvargiya last month claimed that after Independence and Partition, whatever was left of India constituted a "Hindu Rashtra".

Founders of the Constitution gave us a map and moral framework, the task of "walking that path remains our responsibility", President Droupadi Murmu said in her address to the nation on the eve of 74th Republic Day on Wednesday.

Sri Lanka's Opposition leader Mahinda Rajapaksa on Wednesday slammed the efforts being made to formulate a new Constitution, saying Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe''s government does not have political moral to introduce it and should therefore hold fresh polls.

Attorney General K K Venugopal on Saturday expressed concern over the Supreme Court relying on the concept of constitutional morality after it gave a 4:1 verdict in the Sabarimala case and said it might be used now for the purpose of testing laws. On September 28, a five-judge Constitution bench, headed by the then Chief Justice Dipak Misra, in a 4...

Former Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, who headed the benches that delivered a series of judgements on important issues including the criminalisation of politics, adultery, homosexuality, lynching and Sabarimala temple, said on Friday that an individual cannot be bereft of the idea of constitutional morality.

An essential component of a constitutional democracy is its ability to secure for its citizenry a freely and fairly elected government comprising members of high integrity and morality, the Supreme Court said today.

A 150-year-old law that prescribes a life term in jail for gay sex is under spotlight as a five-judge Constitution Bench started hearing a bunch of petitions that call for its scrapping. The bench, however, said it would only examine the "correctness" of its verdict of 2013, which cancelled a Delhi High Court judgment that said the law criminalizin...

A British-era law that makes homosexuality a crime will be up for re-examination today by the Supreme Court, which pointed out seven months ago that "social morality changes from age to age". A five-judge constitution bench will hear a bunch of petitions that demand the scrapping of Section 377. On Monday, the court refused to adjourn the hearing d...

Principles of constitutional morality and equity do not apply to triple talaq because it is a matter of faith, the Muslim law board told the Supreme Court hearing the triple talaq case. The Muslim body that is defending the practice that lets men get instant divorce by saying talaq thrice insisted that a 1,400 year old practice could not be un-Isla...

Meghalaya government today said it has constituted a high level inquiry committee to probe the moral policing controversy in which 12 women, including a pregnant woman, were detained and tortured for a week by members of a Non-Governmental Organisation headed by the Social Welfare department commissioner and secretary MHK Marak.

Slamming the UPA government's announcement that it will assign a judge to investigate if the Gujarat police spied on a young woman architect at the behest of Narendra Modi, the Gujarat Chief Minister's close aide Amit Shah today said it had no "moral or constitutional authority" to take decision on it at the fag-end of its tenure.

The judiciary's moral compass who blended ethicality with intellect, constitutional jurist Fali Sam Nariman will go down in legal history for his pivotal contribution to cases that have shaped India.

Bolivia's Constitutional Court has disqualified former president Evo Morales from running for re-election in 2025, reversing a ruling that had let him seek a fourth term in 2019.

In an interview with PTI, Mr Tewari said once the no-confidence motion has been tabled in the Lok Sabha, any legislation or material business brought before the House is "completely in violation of morality, propriety and parliamentary conventions".

We don't go by either "popular morality or segmental morality" but what the Constitution mandates, the Supreme Court observed on Wednesday when an argument was advanced before it that young same-sex couples across the country wanted to get married.

Known for controversial statements, Kailash Vijayvargiya last month claimed that after Independence and Partition, whatever was left of India constituted a "Hindu Rashtra".

Founders of the Constitution gave us a map and moral framework, the task of "walking that path remains our responsibility", President Droupadi Murmu said in her address to the nation on the eve of 74th Republic Day on Wednesday.

Sri Lanka's Opposition leader Mahinda Rajapaksa on Wednesday slammed the efforts being made to formulate a new Constitution, saying Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe''s government does not have political moral to introduce it and should therefore hold fresh polls.

Attorney General K K Venugopal on Saturday expressed concern over the Supreme Court relying on the concept of constitutional morality after it gave a 4:1 verdict in the Sabarimala case and said it might be used now for the purpose of testing laws. On September 28, a five-judge Constitution bench, headed by the then Chief Justice Dipak Misra, in a 4...

Former Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, who headed the benches that delivered a series of judgements on important issues including the criminalisation of politics, adultery, homosexuality, lynching and Sabarimala temple, said on Friday that an individual cannot be bereft of the idea of constitutional morality.

An essential component of a constitutional democracy is its ability to secure for its citizenry a freely and fairly elected government comprising members of high integrity and morality, the Supreme Court said today.

A 150-year-old law that prescribes a life term in jail for gay sex is under spotlight as a five-judge Constitution Bench started hearing a bunch of petitions that call for its scrapping. The bench, however, said it would only examine the "correctness" of its verdict of 2013, which cancelled a Delhi High Court judgment that said the law criminalizin...

A British-era law that makes homosexuality a crime will be up for re-examination today by the Supreme Court, which pointed out seven months ago that "social morality changes from age to age". A five-judge constitution bench will hear a bunch of petitions that demand the scrapping of Section 377. On Monday, the court refused to adjourn the hearing d...

Principles of constitutional morality and equity do not apply to triple talaq because it is a matter of faith, the Muslim law board told the Supreme Court hearing the triple talaq case. The Muslim body that is defending the practice that lets men get instant divorce by saying talaq thrice insisted that a 1,400 year old practice could not be un-Isla...

Meghalaya government today said it has constituted a high level inquiry committee to probe the moral policing controversy in which 12 women, including a pregnant woman, were detained and tortured for a week by members of a Non-Governmental Organisation headed by the Social Welfare department commissioner and secretary MHK Marak.

Slamming the UPA government's announcement that it will assign a judge to investigate if the Gujarat police spied on a young woman architect at the behest of Narendra Modi, the Gujarat Chief Minister's close aide Amit Shah today said it had no "moral or constitutional authority" to take decision on it at the fag-end of its tenure.