Can Centre Abolish Constitution Of A State?19 Aug 2019 3:06 AM GMTIt is not just Article 370, the President's Order has also amended Article 367, changing the substantive character of an important provision besides abolishing entire Constitution of Jammu & ...
When Bills Get Passed Without Following Pre-Legislative Consultation Policy18 Aug 2019 4:07 AM GMTWith the institutionalisation of Pre- Legislative Consultation Policy (PLCP) in 2014, civil society organisations expected that it would lay the foundation for a vibrant participatory policy making...
'God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.'- Recently a woman has shouted this old homophobic slogan at the Pride marchers in east London. But the truth is far away from this. In between Adam...
Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 is an Act of the Parliament of India enacted by the NDA government to prevent money-laundering and to provide for confiscation of property derived from...
The interference by courts in arbitration and arbitral awards has been widely discussed and debated across the globe. In India, the legislature as well as the Supreme Court has come out in...
The Central Government resolving to do away with the special Constitutional status granted to the State of Jammu and Kashmir passed a Bill abolishing J&K from being a State and sought the...
Time and again, judges, jurists, lawyers, law professors and legal luminaries have lamented over the gender bias that exists in arguably, the most powerful wing of the Government- the Judiciary-the...
The shocking news about the death of Professor Shamnad Basheer came to me when monsoon showers were mercilessly pouring down on Kochi.We had a conversation two weeks back and were supposed to meet...
I stood there, with my jaws agape, staring. Ten feet away stood a young adult, two years my senior, naked from the waist up, his muscled chest glistening with what suspiciously looked like a copious...
The President has, on the recommendation of Parliament,issued the 'Declaration under Article 370(3) of the Constitution' in exercise of his powers under Article 370(3) read with Article 370(1) of the...
In the previous post, Abhinav Sekhri highlighted some of the flaws with the Supreme Court's judgment on the mandatory taking of voice samples from an accused party. In this post, I want to build upon...
On 30th July 2019, a bill introduced as the Consumer Protection Bill, 2019 was passed by the Lok Sabha. Presumably the said bill will be passed in the Rajya Sabha and shall receive the assent of the...
This short piece argues that the actions taken by the President on Monday to move towards the nullification of Article 370 of the Constitution of India are unconstitutional. I will first discuss the...
'In the light of the above discussions, we unhesitatingly take the view that until explicit provisions are engrafted in the Code of Criminal Procedure by Parliament, a Judicial Magistrate must be...
The Author is examining the constitutional question, though hypothetical, about the legal nuances of abrogation of Article 370. The rationale offered for seeking abrogation of Article 370 of the...
Talaq! Talaq! Talaq! - the three forbidden words under Muslim personal law which engenders the irrevocable breakdown of a marriage. The husband utters these words, sometimes even by text messages,...
The Jabalpur resident, Amit Shukla has sparked outrage, after he posted on twitter about his cancelling an order with Zomato -without refund- since the latter refused to concede his demand that he be...
