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Month: March 2007

Long Live Vote Bank Politics!: A Polemics

On March 31, 2007 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

The Supreme Court’s interim judgment in the Ashoka Kumar Thakur vs. Union of India and Ors. granting a stay on the OBC reservations in Central Educational Institutions requires a careful study and I intend to …

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Supreme Court stays UPA govt’s OBC quota policy

On March 30, 2007 By Arun Thiruvengadam In Uncategorized

Yesterday, the Supreme Court appears to have issued an order staying the UPA government’s initiative to impose new quotas for OBCs. Here are reports of the stay order and the Court’s general observations in the …

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Debating the virtues of ‘Judicial Consensus’ and the role of dissents in judicial opinions

On March 29, 2007 By Arun Thiruvengadam In Uncategorized

In the comments section of the previous post, Vivek Reddy has this to say while discussing the Coelho case: “One interesting thing about the Ninth Schedule judgment is that it was a unanimous judgment. In …

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Recent pieces of interest in the Economic and Political Weekly

On March 27, 2007 By Arun Thiruvengadam In Uncategorized

Recent issues of the Economic and Political Weekly contain several interesting articles that are either directly or incidentally related to the law. I am not sure when EPW moved to this new format (where it …

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In Defence of Proportional Representation

On March 26, 2007 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

In my earlier post on corruption debate-I, I emphasized the dire need to replace the first-past-the-post system with the PR. I am glad that HT editor, Vir Sanghvi has endorsed my suggestion in his column, …

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An analysis of recent Supreme Court rulings on crimes against women

On March 23, 2007 By Arun Thiruvengadam In Uncategorized

Today’s Indian Express carries a column by a member of the Delhi Commission for Women, Ranjana Kaul, who provides an analysis of recent Supreme Court rulings focusing on IPC provisions relating to crimes against women. …

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The Indian Supreme Court’s mixed record on human rights issues in anti-terror cases

On March 22, 2007 By Arun Thiruvengadam In Uncategorized

A recent post by V. Venkatesan highlights stark contradictions in the Indian Supreme Court’s overall record on human rights issues relating to terrorism. In particular, the description of the way in which the Supreme Court …

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Puzzling over a former CJI’s letter, and reflecting upon desirable levels of transparency in the judicial process

On March 22, 2007 By Arun Thiruvengadam In Uncategorized

Yesterday’s Indian Express carried a short letter from a former Chief Justice of India, Justice R.C. Lahoti. I for one am intrigued by his motivation in writing the letter, though its contents and claims are …

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Supreme Court and Human Rights

On March 20, 2007 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

A recent article in The Hindu dealt with evolution of human rights jurisprudence in India, and praised the Supreme Court for its seminal contribution to it. However, a recent case when the Supreme Court rejected …

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Understanding our blog’s inherent potential

On March 19, 2007 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

An interesting piece on the blogs by Nicholas Carr, which first appeared in Guardian and reproduced in The Hindu, captures the essence of our blog too, defines its personality to some extent. But there is …

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