the legal quorum

Published on: 18th January 2026 Authored By: Laxita Raju Hawelikar ILS Law College, Pune INTRODUCTION The death penalty remains one of the most polarising issues in India’s criminal justice  discourse, occupying a complex intersection of constitutional law, penology, morality, and  human rights jurisprudence. Whilst India retains capital punishment for the ‘rarest of rare’  cases, the […]

Published on: 12th January 2026 Authored By: Yash Mishra MIT World Peace University Introduction: Custodial deaths – the killing of persons held by police or in prison – remain a grave human rights crisis in India. These deaths occur amid custodial torture, neglect of medical care, or in purported “encounters” during police action. According to

Published on: 12th January 2026 Authored By: Vishnu Vardhan G SASTRA DEEMED TO BE UNIVERSITY Abstract Climate change is a critical global issue affecting marginalized communities disproportionately. In India, socio-economic inequalities combine with climate hazards such as floods, droughts, heatwaves, and rising sea levels, placing small farmers, tribal groups, coastal residents, urban slum dwellers, women,