In this recent piece in the Indian Express I argue that India needs more strong and independent prosecutors to help address the continuing governance gap. I wrote the piece for a couple reasons...
The Gujarat Chief Minister, Narendra Modi, has another hurdle to face (in terms of ethics and propriety), before and if at all his party gets the mandate to project him as the next-to-next PM-in...
Justice Arijit Pasayat of the Supreme Court is retiring on May 9, and has been one of the most active Judges in the history of Indian Supreme Court. Having been appointed on October 19, 2001, Justice...
Two unrelated cases before the Supreme Court have brought the Court under critical scrutiny recently, pointing to possible involvement in the ongoing electoral process. One is the symbol allotment...
Well, one would be right to consider such a concern as being inconsistent with the aims of PIL, if she agreed with Justice Katju’s previous formulation of this judicial strategy. But readers...
The Supreme Court’s direction to the Special Investigation Team to investigate Ahesan Jafri’s complaint against the Gujarat Chief Minister and others has raised questions about the...
Siddharth Varadarajan’s apt piece in The Hindu (Set Binayak Sen free now) pleading for his immediate release created the right atmosphere for the hearing of Dr.Binayak Sen’s fresh bail...
During the past few days, our blog has discussed the issue of lack of voting rights for Indians temporarily residing abroad during the elections. Responses to the debate suggested that if those...
Several readers have enquired about the draft Prevention of Torture Bill 2008, mentioned in my article on impunity provisions. This blog discussed the possibility of bipartisan consensus on outlawing...
The Jindal Global Law School has announced its faculty. This list is here. With law schools mushrooming in India, it may be useful, in due course, to examine faculty strenghts in different law...
The case of Ram Lakhan v State 137 (2007) DLT 173 on begging is a lesson in stupid laws and sensitive adjudication. Justice Badar Durrez Ahmad of the Delhi High Court deserves commendation. The...
The Group of International Lawyers Delhi (GUILD) was recently created under the auspices of the Centre for Policy Research. For those interested it currently meets once a month to discuss timely...
Namita and Nick, our co-bloggers, have recently drawn attention to the need to decriminalise politics. The readers have, rightly, raised questions about the propriety of barring those candidates who...