Legal Issues - Different Truths

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,...

June 27, 2018
IPA Service
Legal Issues

Justice Chelameswar was Right in Focussing on Lapses in Judiciary

The conduct of the Bar Council of India over the past few years has been far from satisfactory. Instead of setting stellar standards for the legal profession, the BCI...

June 11, 2018
IPA Service
Legal Issues

Creamy Layer Turns Messy and Uncanny: Supreme Court Bench Skips Most Contentious Issues

The decision by a vacation bench of the Supreme Court in a case about reservation in promotions for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes last week may not have been...

May 29, 2018
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Legal Issues

Sterlite Plant Episode is a Clear Case of Violation of Laws: Tamilnadu Govt. Has to Bear Major Responsibility

On 22nd May 2018, thirteen protestors were gunned down in cold blood by the Tamil Nadu police, when they were protesting against the Sterlite Copper plant, a unit of...

May 21, 2018
IPA Service
Legal Issues, Politics

Constitutional Crisis Post-Karnataka Election Results: Supreme Court has set Precedence

Much has been written about the significance of the Karnataka developments for the wider Indian politics, and whether it signifies the coming together of the major opposition parties to...

May 18, 2018
IPA Service
Legal Issues, Politics

Adieu Sweet Yeddy, 112 Times!

The Supreme Court judgement puts to rest at least one anxiety: No horse-trading. With the DGP told to provide security to MLAs till they arrive to vote, the Chief...

May 18, 2018
IPA Service
Legal Issues, Politics

Supreme Court has Prevented Horse Trading by Advancing Floor Test: Karnataka Episode Should be a Lesson to Governors

According to latest judicial pronouncements, if an alliance of two parties gets a majority, its leader should be invited to form the government. It hardly matters if the alliance...

May 17, 2018
IPA Service
Legal Issues, Politics

Keeping India Awake for Height of Trivialisation? It is not about Numbers but Power, says Court

After the ‘Midnight Drama’, BS Yeddyurappa takes oath as Karnataka CM. The top court will take up the case again on Friday. In the meantime, the BJP has been...

May 14, 2018
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Legal Issues

Mutual Consent Paramount in Adult Relationships: Latest Supreme Court Decision is of Great Significance

If to exercise the basic rights of choice and intimate relationships, one has to knock on the doors of the highest court of the country every time, then the...

May 12, 2018
IPA Service
Legal Issues

Supreme Court Trust Deficit Deepens Further

The trust deficit between the two ‘camps’ of the Supreme Court got further institutionalised last week, with curious things happening on a petition challenging the decision of Vice President...

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