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State needs to be more tolerant while invoking laws pertaining to sedition & religious disaffection: Punjab and Haryana High Court

In a well-worded, well-analysed, well-reasoned and well articulated judgment titled Jasbir Singh @ Jasvir Singh v. State of Punjab [Crl. Misc. No. M-19376 of 2020] delivered just recently on October 30, 2020,... Read more »

India will spend Rs 37 trillion a year to accommodate population by 2030: Report

New economic data in the report ‘A Blueprint for Modern Infrastructure Delivery’, authored by international construction and consultancy company, Mace, finds that by 2030 India will be spending $500 billion (over Rs... Read more »

Law of sedition: All dissents are not disaffection, all disaffections are not always dissents

There is very thin line between freedom of speech and law of sedition, as has been the case with the term disaffection and disillusionment. Power of criticising is a democratic right but... Read more »

15 years of Right to Information

Fifteen years back on 12th October, 2005 the Right to Information (RTI) Act became operational. It was the auspicious day of Vijayadashmi and appeared to herald a new revolution in Indian democracy.... Read more »

Liberalising the regime of Default Bail under 167(2) CrPC

The right to life and personal liberty enshrined in Article 21 is the sanctum sanctorum of the Indian Constitution. Law makers have given the highest priority to the personal liberty and deprivation of the... Read more »

The European origins of cultural coloniality

To use a pop culture reference, a form of inception was performed on the minds of the hitherto colonised so that colonialism and colonisation were no more external to their consciousness, but... Read more »

Analysis of the insolvency & bankruptcy (second amendment) bill, 2020

As per the Report of Reserve Bank of India’s report on Trend and Progress of Banking in India 2017-18(Crisil), Exactly three years later, the code was legislated, it has made material progress in addressing... Read more »

The status quo of criminal investigation in India: A cause for worry?

The Common Cause report on ‘Status of Policing in India, 2019’ reveals some shocking numbers. The report shows that police in India work at 77% of their sanctioned strength which is 3/4th... Read more »

Protection of whistleblowers in India: Myth versus reality

“The purpose of whistleblowing is to expose secret and wrongful acts by those in power to enable reform.” — Glenn Greenwald INTRODUCTION The term whistleblowing can be understood as raising our voice... Read more »

THE FALLACY OF PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION

Recently, the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India ordered the removal of 48,000 slum dwellings around railway tracks in Delhi, affecting approximately 2,40,000 people. Prior to this order, the Apex Court and the... Read more »
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