Legal Issues - Different Truths

August 7, 2018
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Legal Issues

Draft NRC for Assam Raises Many Questions: Supreme Court Has to Take a Holistic Approach

After decades of push and pull, the National Register of Citizens was set to be revised, and the exercise began in 2015 under the aegis of the current NDA...

August 7, 2018
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Legal Issues, Rituals & Practices

Killing Malikappurathamma: There is more to Sabarimala than Constitutional Rights

The Supreme Court is seized of the matter. The five-judge Constitution bench has heard all sides of the argument. Fine high-flaunting law-points. But can Lord Ayyappa and Malikapurathamma be...

August 7, 2018
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Legal Issues, Politics

Time to Turn into Party Animals: Govt. Policies Being Used to Polarise People

Witness the BJP-led Modi government. It has become more party-focused than country-concerned these last several months. The impression gaining ground is that the party’s base is dictating the government’s...

August 1, 2018
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Legal Issues, Politics

Citizenship Row: A Tale of Administrative Inefficiency

As Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha and lawyer Sukhendu Roy points out, only a few weeks ago Hajela told newspersons that there was no possibility that large numbers of people...

July 16, 2018
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Legal Issues, LGBTQIA+

Supreme Court Bench Receptive to Protecting Rights for Gays

The Centre submitted to the Supreme Court that they would leave it to the ‘wisdom’ of the court, and not contest the demand for ‘decriminalisation of adult consensual sexual...

July 16, 2018
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History & Culture, Legal Issues

The Unseemly Noise over Taj Mahal: Judges Wade into Unchartered Territory

“Either we will shut down the Taj Mahal or you demolish or restore it”, a two-member bench comprising Justices M B Lokur and Deepak Gupta were reported to have...

July 14, 2018
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Legal Issues, LGBTQIA+

Opening the Door to Gay Room

Gay activist Harish Iyer, in a counter to BJP leader Subramanian Swamy, who says homosexuality is “deviant”, insisted that homosexuality was a “variant” and that psychiatrists have said that....

July 9, 2018
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Legal Issues

Supreme Court Judgement on Delhi is a Boost to Federalism

The Constitution Bench of Supreme Court unanimously held that LG is an administrative head in the limited sense, and is not a Governor. He is bound by the aid...

July 3, 2018
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Legal Issues

Continuing Assaults on Lawyers is a Disturbing Trend

This government has increasingly persecuted outspoken lawyers, whether Indira Jaising, Teesta Setalvad, who has been on the verge of arrest several times in the last few years, lawyers of Jagdalpur Legal...

July 2, 2018
Manish Kaithwas
Cover Story, Crime, Gender, Human Rights, Legal Issues

When Solutions are worse than Problems: Analysing Amendments in POCSO and Rape Laws

The death penalty of convicts, definitely, does not hold an answer to the burning question of a rise in rape and related crimes. Even Justice Verma Committee has said,...

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