TRANSPARENCY & EDITORIAL POLICY

How Pleadings Is Built

Pleadings is a legal-media platform making real Indian court judgments readable, verifiable, and engaging without sacrificing legal rigor.

CORE SYSTEM

The Three-Tier Source System

Every sentence on Pleadings carries an explicit source tier. We distinguish between certified judicial holding, verifiable historical journalism, and dramatized scene reconstructions:

BLACK TIER · ¶

Taken From the Judgment

Directly quotes or paraphrases certified judicial copies. Carries a clickable paragraph pinpoint (e.g. ¶12) that opens the verbatim judgment text.

BLUE TIER · †

Verified Secondary Source

Contemporary newspaper reports, official police dispatches, memoirs, or books recorded at the time. Carries publication details and dates.

AMBER TIER

Atmospheric Reconstruction

Scene-setting only to recreate historical atmosphere. Never used for a factual claim regarding a real person's acts, words, or state of mind.

Editorial Board & Legal Review

Adv. Girish Kr. Srivastava

Senior Legal Reviewer · Supreme Court of India

Enrolment No: D/842/1991

Every case published on Pleadings undergoes scrutiny by enrolled advocates to ensure paragraph pinpoints, statutory citations (including IPC→BNS concordance), and ratio-obiter demarcations strictly reflect and are verified against the original/officially published judgment.

Commitment to Corrections

We maintain a public, immutable log of all editorial corrections. If you spot a factual error or misattributed citation, please notify us immediately.