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When a capital closes its metro stations, switches off mobile internet and turns protesters back at its borders, the question is not whether order matters. It is whether the State has shown its work.
Spider-Man’s best-known lesson is usually quoted with the interesting half left out. Power brings responsibility, yes, but the useful corollary for public law is that the responsibility grows with the power. When a State can close metro stations, divert trains, seal borders and switch off mobile internet across a neighbourhood, the burden of justifying each step grows with it. Constitutional lawyers call that idea proportionality, and it sits at the centre of what happened in Delhi in early October 2026.
A trial court acquitted because no handwriting expert was examined. The Chhattisgarh High Court reversed, and in doing so restated how Section 306 is actually proved.
Criminal law was built around the State and the accused. India's courts and legislature have slowly made room for the victim, but the room is still smaller than the promise.
Generative AI has moved from conference-panel novelty to the document-review queue. But the firms that will benefit are not the ones buying the most tools — they are the ones that redesign how work, supervision and accountability fit together.
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