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What the N.C. Isaac Ruling on Armed Forces Disability Pension Means for Disability Rights Jurisprudence

The Supreme Court’s ruling in Union of India v. Col. N.C. Isaac (Retd.) examines the principles governing armed forces disability pension claims, including service-related aggravation, the evidentiary...

Ten Years of the RPwD Act: A Powerful Law, a Persistent Apathy

Ten years after the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, accessibility barriers, vacant reserved posts and weak enforcement persist. This article examines why a progressive law has not...

No Space For “Additional Charge”: Supreme Court Makes It Clear That only Full-Time Disability Commisioners Are Required

Rajiv Raturi v. Union of India, W.P.(C) No. 243/2005 Order dated 29.07.2026 (Pardiwala and Viswanathan, JJ.) Introduction By the...

When Disability Meets Caste: The Supreme Court’s Landmark Ruling on Horizontal Reservation for Persons with Disabilities

Case: The West Bengal State Electricity Transmission Co. Ltd. & Ors. v. Dipendu Biswas & Ors.| Citation: 2026 INSC 330 | Civil Appeal No. 10262 of 2025 Decided on: April, 07, 2026 Introduction...

Disability Rights, Compassionate Posting and Administrative Discretion: Shambhu Nath Rai v. Union of India

W.P.(C) 7318/2025 | Delhi High Court (Division Bench) | C. Hari Shankar and Om Prakash Shukla, JJ. | Decided on 18 November 2025 Introduction In Shambhu Nath Rai v. Union of India, the Delhi High...

Continued discrimination against Category D Disability: SLD candidates locked out of Civil Services for another year

In September 2025, the Central Administrative Tribunal handed down what many in the disability rights community called a watershed moment. The CAT’s judgment in Molshree Aggarwal v. UPSC...

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