हिंदी

Long delay in lodging FIR is a valid consideration to grant anticipatory bail: SC

In a well-articulated, well-worded, well-reasoned and well drafted judgment titled Sumedh Singh Saini vs State of Punjab and another in exercise of its criminal appellate jurisdiction in Criminal Appeal No. 827 of... Read more »

The curious case of Indian secularism

In most instances, there are no written orders pursuant to which temple appointments in Tamil Nadu have been made, which violate the fundamental requirements of natural justice. Read more »

Expression of sexual agency or obscenity? A rekindled debate with FIRs against Milind Soman and Poonam Pandey

The exercise of the rights carries with it special duties and responsibilities. It may, therefore, be subject to certain restrictions, but these shall only be such as are provided by law and... Read more »

An overview of the Immoral Traffic Prevention Act, 1956

In a recent judgement pronounced on 24 September 2020, the Bombay High Court has expressly reiterated that ‘prostitution is not an offence and an adult woman has a right to choose her... Read more »

Analysis on order for maintenance of wives, children and parents under the Code of Criminal Procedure

The primary target is to forestall vagrancy by method of technique to give a rapid solution for the individuals who are in torment. The object of the provision being to prevent destitution, it... Read more »

A clean slate theory in Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016

The Code outlines separate insolvency resolution processes for individuals, companies and partnership firms. The process may be initiated by either the debtor or the creditors. The IBC was enacted and came into... Read more »

INDIA’S APPROACH TO EQUALISATION LEVY

The 2016 equalisation levy was the result of the Official Committee constituted by Government of India (Committee on Taxation of E-Commerce) that presented its report on 3rd February 2016. The main factors... Read more »

RECOGNISING ARBITRAL CORRUPTION

The Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Ordinance 2020 addresses a pressing need today; it recognises the field reality of corruption and fraud beyond that of the dispute, but of the tribunal arbitrating the... Read more »

Why Kulbhusan Jadhav refuses to file review petition

Formal conferences on the benefits of the case were held from 18 to 21 February 2019. In its Judgement of 17 July 2019, the court originally illustrated the foundation of the question,... Read more »

71st birthday of Indian Constitution

I feel that the Constitution is workable, it is flexible and it is strong enough to hold the country together both in peacetime and in wartime. Indeed, if I may say so,... Read more »