Guest Post by Prashant Narang 72. It is common ground that the validity of the impugned amendment to Rule 6.2.4 shall have to be tested on a threshold basis viz. (i) whether the amendment is made by...
Guest Post by Shraddha Kulhari and Sujoy Chatterjee In an earlier post, we had discussed the current constitutional status of the National Capital Territory of Delhi vis-à-vis Statehood. To...
Guest post by Sakshi Aravind In my previous post I had briefly discussed the shortcomings of the Compensatory Afforestation Bill, 2016 that has been recently passed by the Rajya Sabha. In this post...
Guest Post by Sakshi Aravind On 28th July, 2016 Rajya Sabha unanimously passed the deeply problematic Compensatory Afforestation Fund Bill, 2016 (“the bill”). It was passed by Lok Sabha without...
Almost every day brings to the fore some instance of abuse, harassment and stalking that women face on the internet and on social media specifically. Addressing this doesn’t require more ill...
This blog has previously carried commentary on pre-legislative scrutiny on several occasions: see here, here, here and here. A few weeks ago, on May 11, 2016, the Supreme Court delivered a judgment...
In a blog post last year, I had written about the (then) recently inserted Part VIII of the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) issued by the Election Commission of India (ECI). Part VIII deals with Election...
Identified Lives versus Statistical Lives In Andy Weir’s book, The Martian (recently adapted into a Ridley Scott movie, starring Matt Damon), the lead character, an astronaut named Mark Watney, is...
(Guest Post by Rahul Bajaj) On Wednesday, after much anticipation, a single judge of the Delhi High Court delivered her verdict in the bail application filed by Kanhaiya Kumar, the President of the...
(Guest Post by Chintan Chandrachud) The doctrine of substantive legitimate expectations is a fairly new addition to the ‘armoury of courts in ensuring that discretions are exercised fairly’. It...