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GS-2SOCIAL JUSTICE & LGBTQ+ CIVIL RIGHTS

No Marriage Law, Three Ministries Anyway - India's Quiet Answer to a Court That Punted

The Health Ministry's September 9 affidavit in the Delhi High Court is the latest in a pattern of ministry-by-ministry administrative concessions to same-sex couples since the Supreme Court's 2023 Supriya Chakraborty ruling left marriage equality to Parliament while directing the government to address queer couples' practical civil difficulties.

Sub TopicADMINISTRATIVE INCLUSION POST-SUPRIYA CHAKRABORTY VERDICTSourceINDIAN EXPRESS, ECONOMIC TIMES…
UPSC Relevance9/10
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GS-2TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE & INDIA'S NEIGHBOURHOOD

The Tribunal That Was Built to Judge 1971 Is Now Sentencing the Party That Once Ran It

The ICT-2 tribunal's September 15, 2026 verdict sentencing seven senior Awami League and affiliated-wing leaders to death marks the most sweeping use yet of a tribunal originally created in 2010 to prosecute 1971 war crimes - now repurposed within two years of regime change to try the leadership it once served.

Sub TopicBANGLADESH'S ICT VERDICTS AND REGIME-CHANGE ACCOUNTABILITYSourceTHE HINDU, ANI, WION, OPINIO JURIS
UPSC Relevance9/10
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GS-2JUDICIAL DISSENT & CONSTITUTIONAL VALUES

The Line a Retired Judge Keeps Drawing - Liberty Yes, Disruption No

Justice Dhulia's interview arrives days after the Supreme Court invoked Article 142 to quash FIRs against protesting students and amid Justice Ujjal Bhuyan's public remarks calling punitive threats against student dissent "unconstitutional" - placing renewed judicial attention on where the state's tolerance for campus protest actually ends.

Sub TopicJUDICIARY'S EVOLVING STANCE ON CAMPUS PROTEST AND…SourceINDIAN EXPRESS, INDIA TV NEWS…
UPSC Relevance9/10
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GS-2ELECTORAL ROLL REVISION & ECI ACCOUNTABILITY

Why Phase 3 of the SIR Is Deleting Voters Twice as Fast - And No One Is Saying Why

The Hindu's data analysis found that Phase 3 SIR deletions (17.1%) are running well above Phase 1 and 2 levels (12.8%), with several major states crossing 20%, raising fresh questions about the transparency and consistency of the ECI's roll-revision methodology. Data analysis of Phase 3 of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) shows an unprecedented 17.1% deletion rate in draft electoral rolls, cutting 6.15 crore voters…

Sub TopicSPECIAL INTENSIVE REVISION (SIR) - PHASE 3 DELETION…SourceTHE HINDU, CIVILS DAILY
UPSC Relevance9/10
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GS-2FEDERALISM & UNIFORM CIVIL CODE

Omar Abdullah: BJP should bring UCC through Parliament, not backdoor

Omar Abdullah's remarks spotlight a structural feature of the current UCC push - its enactment state-by-state rather than through Parliament - and directly attribute this to NDA coalition partners like JDU refusing to support a national bill, turning a policy debate into a live illustration of how coalition arithmetic shapes the constitutional route a government chooses.

SourceTHE HINDU, INDIAN EXPRESS…
UPSC Relevance8/10
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GS-2PREVENTIVE DETENTION & ARTICLE 21

Detention can't rest on mere labels: J&K court on man labelled as 'Lashkar OGW'

The J&K High Court's quashing of a PSA detention order against a man already granted bail in the underlying case reinforces judicial limits on preventive detention, reasserting that Article 21's protection of personal liberty requires a genuine, present link between past conduct and future threat - not administrative labels alone.

Sub TopicCIVIL LIBERTIES & PREVENTIVE DETENTION (ARTICLE 21)SourceINDIAN EXPRESS, KASHMIR LIFE
UPSC Relevance8/10
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