By Arushi Garg The government’s notification exempting the CBI under Section 24 of the RTI Act (which allows exemption of intelligence gathering agencies from the RTI Act) has sparked a controversy...
A recent interview of Justice J.S.Verma’s on CNN-IBN, with Karan Thapar, seems to suggest that, as the Chief Justice of India, he was against Justice Punchhi’s elevation to the Supreme...
By Anuj Kapoor In the last Joint Committee meeting of the members of the drafting committee for Lokpal Bill on 21st June, the government members and the members from the civil society were unable to...
While we are discussing corruption in India, it may be interesting to look at the recent decision of the Constitutional Court of South Africa in Glenister v President of the Republic of SA [2011]...
By Arushi Garg Judges of the Supreme Court of India (1950-1989) by George H. Gadbois, Jr.,(OUP, 2011) seeks to study the background and life of the ninety three judges who were elevated to the...
The Bill has led to differences among even secular minded people. A press release from Anhad has been placed on the Primary Sources page. It offers a detailed critique of the Bill, signed by several...
By Arushi Garg Recently, the Supreme Court has refused to stay the operation of the Bihar Special Courts Act, 2009 (hereinafter “the Act”), while agreeing to hear the SLP against the Patna High Court...
By Arushi Garg Recently, in an interview of Professor Upendra Baxi, the Rainmaker explored the condition of legal education in India, and his sustained endeavours to make legal education in India...
By Arushi Garg On May 31, the renowned political scientist Eduardo Graeff was at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi to present his paper entitled “A Chronicle of Corruption and Transparency in...
George Gadbois’ book on Supreme Court Judges is bound to invite mixed reactions from readers. My review is no exception. I welcome reviews by other contributors as well.
On why the Supreme Court’s judgment prescribing death penalty to the convicts in Encounter death cases does not really address the problem. A tale of two dams. Why Jairam Ramesh’s order...
By Arushi Garg The fourth public hearing on the Jan Lokpal Bill was conducted on May 26. As I first reached the venue, a park in the heart of a crowded residential colony in East Shalimar Bagh, New...
By Arushi Garg Various concerns have been raised after rules relating to the internet were notified on 11th April 2011. Objections have been raised on mainly three fronts: one, that an unreasonable...