The Judiciary and the 2024 General Election: Round-Up

This is a round-up of the blog’s pieces on the judiciary and the 2024 General Election. Although the GE has now concluded, many of the issues discussed in these posts are bound to recur. The analysis and critiques on the blog, it is hoped, can spark a conversation about ensuring greater judicial consistency – and less arbitrariness – when it comes to courts and the elections.

  1. A Critique of the Election Commission’s Order in the “Real NCP” Dispute (17 Feb 2024), by Yogesh Byadwal.
  2. The Unexamined Law: On the Supreme Court’s Stay Order in the Election Commissioners Case (22 March 2024).
  3. An Injudicious Judicial Opinion (27 April 2024).
  4. Distortion begets Distortion: On the Arvind Kejriwal “Interim Bail” Order (12 May 2024).
  5. The Supreme Court, the Election Commission and the 18th Lok Sabha Elections-I: On the SC’s refusal of a Stay Order in the Election Commissioners’ Case (22 May 2024), by Hardik Choubey.
  6. The disclaimer shaped hole in India’s elections (22 May 2024), by Vasudev Devadasan.
  7. The Supreme Court, the Election Commission and the 18th Lok Sabha Elections-II: The Court, the Commission, and the Enforcement Agencies (23 May 2024), by Hardik Choubey.
  8. The Supreme Court’s Form 17-C Order: Three Issues (24 May, 2024).

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