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Devv Bairaagi edits Bharatverseh and is co-founder of AgniCorp Media, the media company that publishes it. His career spans Hyundai, WorkIndia and the United Nations, and he holds a Master's degree from Arizona State University. He writes the site's news reports and signs off every story before it is published.
Answering petitions over Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar's decisions, the poll body says every SIR order was unanimous, but concedes that its online voter form could be read as an amendment it had no power to make.
Hearing the Delhi voter roll revision case, the bench questioned why existing voters must file a fresh enrolment form, and said the legality of the "logical discrepancy" category is still undecided.
From the first report of 14 recorded objections to the Commission's affidavit in the Supreme Court, a timeline of the dispute over how decisions are taken inside India's poll body.
In February 2024 a five-judge bench held that the electoral bonds scheme violated voters' right to information. What the scheme was, what the court said and what it revealed.
The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita dropped the word sedition, but its Section 152 punishes acts endangering India's sovereignty, unity and integrity. How it differs from the old Section 124A.
The Supreme Court held in 2020 that internet suspensions must be necessary, proportionate, temporary and published. A guide to the law, the rules and the gaps between them.
