Reading Time: 3 minutesLocked behind bars, he is getting special treatment. Bollywood stars are being allowed in Bhaijaan’s presence like he is Emperor Jahangir, who as you know upheld the law of the land in his time in the Red Fort. On Friday, actor Preity Zinta met him in jail and his bodyguard Shera was in and out […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesTo date, “serial offender” Salman Khan has been convicted in several cases but in all of them, he eased to freedom as easily as a worm from a sticky situation. The only time he went behind bars, he was out in seven days and much has been written of Woh Saat Din. Here’s a report, […]
Reading Time: 7 minutesA shocking judgement of the Supreme Court on the Scheduled Castes & Tribes Act and a weekly round-up of the major decisions of the courts in India as also legal policy developments, for Different Truths. In a shocking judgment, the Supreme Court, in a two-judge bench of Justice Adarsh Goel and Justice U.U. Lalit has […]
Reading Time: 8 minutesHere’s a landmark judgement by the Apex Court on the foreign law firms setting offices in India and a weekly round-up of the major judgements from around the country and legal policy development, for Different Truths. In a judgment with wide-ranging ramifications, the Supreme Court has rejected the plea of foreign law firms to set […]
Reading Time: 8 minutesA path-breaking judgement of the Supreme Court recognises the right to die with dignity as a Fundamental Right and other major judgements from various courts of India. Here’s a weekly round-up, for Different Truths. In a path-breaking judgment, the Constitution Bench of 5 judges of Supreme Court has recognised right to die as a fundamental […]
Reading Time: 16 minutesIn a historic and landmark judgement on Friday (March 9), the Supreme Court of India allowed passive euthanasia. A Constitution Bench, led by the CJI Dipak Misra upheld that the fundamental right to life and dignity includes right to refuse treatment and die with dignity. It stated that the fundamental right to a “meaningful existence” […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesPerhaps more significant is the part of the verdict that deals with a distressed person’s right to end life voluntarily. As a first step towards giving judicial support to the right of a person to commit suicide, the court reversed a 22-year-old judgment that said the right to life did not include the right to […]
Reading Time: 8 minutesConflicting judgements on land acquisition exposes a major crisis in judicial impropriety. Here’s a weekly round-up of the major decisions of the courts in India as also legal policy developments, for Different Truths. The Supreme Court again seems to be involved in another crisis, with questions of judicial impropriety and challenging conventions raised. The issue […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesNew contours of judicial processes are emerging, which might help in instituting a more acceptable and transparent system. Artificial intelligence is one such area. Technology and law are converging in a manner that might make it possible to integrate and even interchange human and non-human roles for better delivery of justice. Artificial intelligence, more understood […]
Reading Time: 7 minutesHere’s a report on the 2G Spectrum case and other weekly round-up of major cases for Different Truths. The Government of India, in a surprising development, appointed Tushar Mehta, Additional Solicitor General of India, as the Special Public Prosecutor (‘SPP’)conducting “prosecution, appeals/revisions or other proceedings” arising out of the cases relating to 2G spectrum investigated […]
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