Justice AP Shah, responsible for such landmark judgments as the one on consensual gay sex, retired as Chief Justice of Delhi High Court after being overlooked for promotion to the Supreme Court.

A Supreme Court of India, and a Supreme Court for all Indians: these two versions can be radically different in terms of principle and content.

Chief Justice of India (CJI) K.G. Balakrishnan completed three years in office on January 13 and will retire on May 11.

THE Indian Supreme Court has a reputation for being a “people’s court” or, as one judge put it, a “last resort for the oppressed and bewildered”.

Justice A.P. Shah’s judgment in the Delhi high court on the applicability of the Right to Information (RTI) Act is as fine as any bench of the Supreme Court could deliver.