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No distinction of bailable & non bailable offence while granting bail to a juvenile U/s 12 of jj act:

In a very significant judgment titled Ayaan Ali Vs The State of Uttarakhand in Criminal Revision No. 226 of 2021 that was finally delivered on February 16, 2022, the Uttarakhand High Court... Read more »

‘Is it possible for transgenders to be legal and free?’

Transgender is an umbrella term for persons whose gender identity is different from the sex identities assigned at the time of birth. The meaning of the prefix ‘trans’ is across or beyond... Read more »

WOMEN’S RIGHTS AS HUMAN RIGHTS

“The freedoms, immunities, and benefits that, according to modern values (esp. at an international level), all human beings should be able to claim as a matter of right in the society in... Read more »

MSMES, INSOLVENCY RESOLUTION PROCESSES AND THE AVOIDANCE APPLICATIONS

Prior to the amendment inserting Chapter III-A to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (‘Code’), the corporate insolvency resolution process (‘CIRP’) for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (‘MSME’) was covered by Chapters... Read more »

PIL FILED BEFORE DELHI HIGH COURT: THE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (IDENTIFICATION) ACT, 2022

The Criminal Procedure (identification) Act, 2022 has received President’s assent on April 18th thereby replacing Identification of Prisoners Act, 1920. There are three major changes introduced by the way of new act,... Read more »

Blessed are the advocates

Blessed are the advocates ! They have voluntarily chosen to be ‘the voice of voiceless’. They are shouldered with the sacred duty of assuaging societal rifts between persons and persons, persons and... Read more »

Constitutionalism and democracy: A critical analysis

INTRODUCTION The term ‘constitutionalism’ (or maybe rather: modern constitutionalism) refers to a specific way of thinking and theorizing about the constitution. Modern constitutionalism, as Walker puts it, ‘came first and foremost to... Read more »

Behaviour which when considered in the context of the hearing of a petition for divorce indicates that the respondent has behaved in such a way that the petitioner cannot reasonably be expected... Read more »

A deeper look at history of death penalty: An analysis

INTRODUCTION The death penalty is a government sanctioned form of criminal punishment, where a person is put to death by the state. Crimes that are punishable by the death penalty are called... Read more »

Unraveling newly-introduced ‘The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022’: The constitutional lens/critical analysis

T he Ministry of Home Affairs tabled ‘The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022’ in the Lok Sabha on Monday the 28th of March 2022. The bill, which intends to make the investigation... Read more »