Introduction In August, the Supreme Court will hear petitions on whether “illegal immigrants” in India are entitled to recognition as refugees. These proceedings are intrinsically linked to the Centre’s broader efforts to remove stateless Rohingya …
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Repeat Sexual Offences and Proportionality of Punishment
The Bombay High Court in Mohd Salim Mohd. Kudus Ansari (Shakti Mills case) recently upheld the constitutional validity of s.376E of the IPC that allows for the death penalty as one of the punishments for …
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Crisis of Secularism or Paradox of Governance?
(As part of our blog round-table book discussion, this is the first of the substantive responses to Julia Stephen’s Governing Islam: Law, Empire and Secularism in South Asia, by Professor Zubair Abbasi.) Crisis of Secularism or …
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Introduction to a Book Discussion on Julia Stephen’s Governing Islam: Law, Empire and Secularism in South Asia
(Over the next few days, the Law and Other Things Blog will run a book discussion on Julia Stephen’s Governing Islam: Law, Empire and Secularism in South Asia. This is the introductory post by Professor Rohit De.) …
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Round-Up: Book Discussion on Julia Stephen’s Governing Islam: Law, Empire and Secularism in South Asia
The Law and Other Things Blog has run a book discussion on Julia Stephen’s Governing Islam: Law, Empire and Secularism in South Asia. The essays, in chronological order, are below: Introduction (by Rohit De) Crisis of …
Continue readingProposing the Independent Institutions Bill
In a recent column in the Indian Express, I have argued for the need to enact an Independent Institutions Bill. The point of the Bill is to guarantee institutional independence, functional autonomy and public accountability …
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Economic Quota And The Basic Structure Doctrine – Exploring The Oddities (Part 1)
This article is the first part of a two-part series on the 103rd amendment which provides for a maximum of ten percent reservation to the economically weaker sections of citizens, and deals with a brief history of the jurisprudence surrounding reservations in India.
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