Introduction In August of 2025, the Supreme Court struck down the Indian Army’s policy of gender-based reservations in Judge Advocate General (JAG) posts on grounds of indirect discrimination ( Arshnoor Kaur v UOI ; para 93). This judgment draws attention to the fact that non-combat arms in the armed forces, like JAG, continue to have arbitrary gender-based distinctions in recruitment despite the Defence Ministry’s 2023 press release claiming that employment in the Indian ar

Introduction India follows a judicial system that maintains a pyramidal hierarchy in its functioning, adhering to the doctrine of stare decisis and the express constitutional mandate under Article 141, which establishes that the law declared by the Supreme Court is binding on all courts.   While the United States lacks a constitutional provision for vertical stare decisis , it proposes an intriguing question :  “Why must one follow the Supreme Court when it is not an infall

Introduction In 2023, the Competition Commission of India (‘CCI’ or ‘the Commission’) found itself in an unprecedented situation . With only an Acting Chairperson and a Member, the Commission faced a backlog of pending merger approvals. This led to the invocation of the doctrine of necessity  in order to examine and approve combination agreements, i.e, mergers and acquisitions. Normally, an M&A approval, being an administrative function, requires a quorum of three members, a

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