This blog has, in an earlier post, discussed the draft Prevention of Torture Bill 2008 [See the Asian Centre for Human Rights Report on this draft Bill]. In the last session of Parliament, the...
Shamnad’s last post briefly mentioned ‘legitimate expectations’, an important area of administrative law that does tends not to get much attention in Indian academic writing. I...
The full text of the landmark judgment of the Supreme Court in the case of Selvi v State of Karnataka is available here. I have not read the judgment yet, but media reports suggest that the Court has...
This blog has discussed the implications of the UID project before. Readers interested in the issue may want to see the following resources too:– Expert Committee on Metadata– Usha...
The recent judgment of the Supreme Court in Khushboo v. Kannaiammal upholds the right to freedom of speech and expression. Khushboo’s right to freedom of speech was violated by the institution...
The following is a guest post from Sushant Sinha, the person behind Indian Kanoon...
Following is a guest post from Rahela Khorakiwala, who completed her LL.B. from Government Law College, Mumbai and is currently doing her LL.M. at NYU School of Law...
The National Advisory Council is being reconstituted. Its previous avatar saw a vigorous debate on its constitutional illegitimacy, one that is completely absent this time around. There is a sense...
In an interesting column in the Indian Express, Mihir Sharma ponders over ‘The Four Rights that millennial India has promised its people — to information, to food, to education, and to (rural)...
Shabnam Hashmi has filed a PIL in the Supreme Court challenging ‘a law which denies a child a right to inheritance if s/he is adopted by non-Hindu parents.’ The case is surely going to be...