Public Interest Litigation

The Supreme Court has set a nine-month deadline for India's hospitals to meet mandatory ICU standards, warning of strict action against defaulters in a case that began with a single ICU death in 2013.

The Supreme Court called a tenfold gap between a cancer drug's factory price and its MRP 'broad daylight dacoity.' The real scandal is how much of India's medicine market that gap is legal in.

The Supreme Court's recent interventions in cases involving Kerala's captive elephant Raman and India's stray dogs have reignited debate on animal welfare in India. Beyond individual disputes, these rulings expose enforcement gaps and redefine the legal meaning of compassion.

Public Interest Litigation Explained is not just a legal concept. It is one of the most powerful tools available in Indian law to drive social change. Over the years, it has helped bring justice to people who could not approach courts themselves, whether due to poverty, lack of awareness, or systemic barriers. If you have ever wondered how courts take up environmental issues, prison reforms, or corruption cases even when the affected individuals are not directly present, the answer often lies...

When a petition was filed in the Supreme Court to delete a textbook sentence describing how courts view slum dwellers as "encroachers," it sparked a vital debate. Are we protecting the judiciary's image, or are we sanitizing the harsh realities of India's urban poor for our students?

The SC dismissed a PIL on contaminated cough syrups, emphasizing judicial restraint and refusing to act as a parallel investigator. The ruling distinguishes the role of Judicial Review (legality) from impermissible Judicial Substitution (executive functions).