1. Merits of Multiple Judgments: Arun has referred in the pervious post to the problems posed by different judgments even while the Judges agree on many of the questions before them. While his view...
The media is abuzz with reports that Justices Pasayat-Thakker judgments on Mandal II -if read with Justice Bhandari’s – would mean that majority Judges have held that graduates cannot be...
I find that Justice Raveendran’s Judgment in the Ashoka Kumar Thakur case is now available.
Even as I am trying to come to grips with the Mandal II Judgment (there is confusion whether Majority Judges favoured restriction of OBC quotas to undergraduate courses), I noticed that this post may...
The following are the links to the Mandal II Judgment delivered by the Constitution Bench today. Summaries and comments are welcome to facilitate a reasoned and informed debate on the Judgment...
The hearing of the PIL Occupational Health and Safety Association v. U.O.I in the Supreme Court today by the Bench comprising the Chief Justice and Justice R.V.Raveendran brought forth some...
Shoukat Hussain Guru is one of the convicts in the Parliament attack case, having been sentenced to 10 years R.I. He challenged his conviction (strangely by the Supreme Court as the trial court did...
Dr.Rajeev Dhavan has raised an important issue in today’s Mail Today on the constitutionality of Supreme Court’s PRO. Citing from the website of the Supreme Court, he asks whether it is...
Fresh from the workshop, I was tempted to read the legal stories in the newspapers in the light of what one learnt from the Judges and senior advocates. Here is a sample of how newspapers reported...
Today, W.P.© 580 of 2003, Common Cause v. Union of India & Ors came up for hearing before Justices H.K.Sema and Markandey Katju in Court No.4 of the Supreme Court. Even as the petitioner’s...