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10/05/2026

Why does a mother wait 20 years for justice while the doctor who killed her child walks free?

Because the law was never built to hold doctors accountable in India.

In 2005, our Supreme Court borrowed a legal test from England called the Bolam test. It was designed to protect doctors from unfair prosecution. But here's what they didn't tell us: England also has safeguards. England pays families compensation in 1-3 years. In India? Families wait two decades. England pays an average of £204,672 per case. In India? Compensation depends on how poor you are. A daily wager gets less. A middle-class person gets more. A rich person? They mostly never suffer from negligence.

We borrowed the shield without the sword.

Since 1860—not even a handful of doctors have been convicted and imprisoned under Section 304A for medical negligence in a completed trial. Not one. In a country with 1.4 billion people, millions of hospital admissions, and a private healthcare sector worth nearly a hundred billion dollars.

The law exists. But the offender cannot exist.

This is the absurdity that Advocate Nishant Bharihoke breaks down in a powerful new deep-dive. He's not arguing that doctors should be prosecuted for honest mistakes. Medicine is not an exact science. But India's legal framework has become something else entirely—it's become immunity.

The Medical Negligence Board system is broken. Composed of government doctors who socialise with the accused. The private healthcare sector faces no meaningful liability. Compensation is nominal. Investigation is done by the very professional fraternity it's supposed to scrutinize.

And yet victims file. Petition after petition. Court after court. Year after year.

Not because they believe the system will deliver. But because stopping feels like a betrayal of the dead.

Read our full deep dive report on why medical negligence law in India is built on a foundation that was never meant for India.

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10/05/2026

Medical Negligence Law in India: Why Doctors Escape Accountability

The legal framework that shields negligent doctors from prosecution—explained.

Understanding the structure is the first step to changing it.

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09/05/2026

₹58,772 crore in fake GST fraud detected in a single financial year.

Behind that figure lies a growing ecosystem of shell firms, fake invoices, circular trading networks and fraudulent input tax credit claims exploiting India’s GST system.

The Probe’s latest deep dive report examines how fake invoice networks operate, why detections are rising, and how organised fraud is increasingly turning GST manipulation into a parallel invoice economy.

This is not merely a tax enforcement issue. It affects honest businesses, weakens trust in the system, and exposes deeper governance gaps in registration, compliance and enforcement.

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04/05/2026

An era ends in Bengal.

After 15 years in power, Mamata Banerjee's All India Trinamool Congress has lost West Bengal to the Bharatiya Janata Party — a verdict that resets not just the politics of one state, but the architecture of national opposition itself.

But the 2026 West Bengal Election Results come shadowed by questions that will outlast this poll.

About 90 lakh voters deleted from the rolls before a single ballot was cast. A "Logical Discrepancy" category introduced exclusively for West Bengal. Nearly 47,000 names struck off in Mamata Banerjee's own constituency of Bhabanipur. A long history of central agency probes that have shaped TMC defections to the BJP.

The Probe's deep dive examines the verdict in full — the politics of defection, the SIR controversy, and the institutional cloud over the Election Commission of India.

If Indian elections are increasingly decided not at the booth but on the list, the most important institution to watch over the next five years is not a political party.

It is the Election Commission of India.

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West Bengal Election Results 2026: BJP wins, Mamata's 15-year rule ends, and mass voter deletions shadow the verdict. The full story behind Bengal's most contested election.

02/05/2026

The world's most dangerous AI is locked away — and what it means for every Indian bank customer.

Anthropic just built Claude Mythos Preview, an AI so capable at finding software vulnerabilities that they refused to release it to the public. Only a few companies and organisations have access. Within weeks, unauthorised users had already breached it.

Now imagine that capability in the hands of "digital arrest" scammers — the same scammers the PM warned about in Mann Ki Baat. Voice cloning in your regional language. Deepfake police video calls. Fake FIRs with perfect legal language. All for near-zero cost.

P. Sesh Kumar, former Director General of the CAG, has written a deep analysis for The Probe on what this means for Indian banks, the RBI, and ordinary citizens.

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23/04/2026

West Bengal goes to the polls today. But for lakhs of its citizens, the booth does not matter — because their names are no longer on the list.

91 lakh voters were deleted from West Bengal's electoral rolls. Most of them had voted in India's 2024 general elections and was accepted as a legitimate Indian voter by the same Election Commission just months ago. The stated reason for this sweeping deletion was to remove illegal Bangladeshi immigrants. The Election Commission has not named a single one it found. Not one name. Not one number. Not one press release.

Among those caught in this dragnet: Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, Kargil war veteran Mohammad Daud Ali, World Cup winning cricketer Richa Ghosh, former Calcutta High Court Judge Sahidullah Munshi, former Chief Secretary Nandini Chakraborty, and a Booth Level Officer — one of the very government officials deployed to verify other people's voter status — who had his own name deleted while conducting the exercise.

This is not just a West Bengal story. This is an India story.
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22/04/2026

A year ago today, the attacks killed 26 tourists in a meadow most Indians had never heard of — and shattered the assumptions holding up J&K's counter-terror architecture.

Twelve months on, India has launched Operation Mahadev, codified its first National Counter-Terror Policy (PRAHAAR), and repositioned its forward deployments.

But a doctor slipped out to Afghanistan undetected. A 2,900-kg explosive cache was assembled in Faridabad. The Red Fort blast still happened.

The Probe examines what has genuinely changed — and what dangerously hasn't.

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18/04/2026

India wants to be a developed nation by 2047. But can it get there with a colonial-era governance model still intact?

Dr. Narendra Gupta, community health physician and national organiser of Jan Swasthya Abhiyan, argues that the answer lies not in New Delhi — but in your district, your block, your panchayat.

In this opinion piece for The Probe, he makes the case for genuine devolution of power to local bodies, drawing on examples from the United States, the failure of ICDS after 50 years, and the urgent need to rethink the All India Services.

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Dr. Narendra Gupta argues that without genuine devolution of power to local bodies, India's developed nation goal by 2047 will remain out of reach.

13/04/2026

72 hours. Three bills. Zero public consultation.

Parliament meets April 16 to pass constitutional amendments that will reshape every constituency in India and determine which women enter politics for the next 15 years. The bill text is still not public.

Over 260 academics, retired civil servants, lawyers, economists and activists have signed a statement demanding the government publish the bills before Parliament votes.

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13/04/2026

72 hours. That is all the time Parliament has set aside to pass bills that will reshape every constituency in India, expand the Lok Sabha from 543 to 816 seats, and determine which women enter politics for the next 15 years.

The bill text is still not public.

Over 260 academics, former IAS officers, retired ambassadors, lawyers, economists, filmmakers and civil society activists have signed a statement demanding the government publish the bills before Parliament votes.

We reported the full story — the north-south divide, the OBC question, the pre-legislative process that was skipped, and the voices raising the alarm.

Read it before Wednesday: https://theprobe.in/politics/womens-reservation-delimitation-bills-rush-secrecy-high-stakes-2114050

Parliament is rushing Women's Reservation and Delimitation bills in 3 days. Over 260 citizens demand transparency and public consultation before passage.

12/04/2026