I was intrigued by the recent SC decision in Principal, Kendriya Vidyalaya and Ors. v. Saurabh Chaudhary and Ors. where the court held that as a general rule, students from the same school cannot be...
The hearing of Dr.K.Krishna Murthy vs. Union of India by the five-Judge Constitution Bench continued for the third day today. Rama Jois and Salman Khursheed argued for the petitioners while ASG...
1. Law Commission’s 210th report seeking omission of S.309 IPC making attempt to commit suicide an offence. 2. My critique of NHRC’s report on Salwa Judum. 3.My review of Supreme...
Beginning today, the Constitution Bench comprising the Chief Justice, Justices R.V.Raveendran, J.M.Panchal, D.K.Jain, and P.Sathasivam has started hearing a bunch of petitions challenging the 73rd...
THE EDICT – National Law Review organised a two-day conference on Judicial Review: The Current Controversy in New Delhi on October 25 and 26. The students from NALSAR undertook the Edict initiative...
Check this out. It is a hilarious collection of passages from freshman history papers (link via today’s blog on Laugh Lines, NYT).
Recent terrorist attacks throughout India have seen the BJP severely criticize the Congress approach to tackling terrorism. One issue that has been highlighted, especially by Narendra Modi, has been...
After reading Tarunabh’s piece today, I was wondering whether the Law Commission’s latest report had anything to say on some of the actual problems faced by those seeking to register...
There is an interesting piece in the Statesman today by the senior advocate, Bishwajit Bhattacharyya. The author blames all the three, Mamta, Tatas and the West Bengal Government for the fiasco, but...
The Court and the Constitution of India: Summits and Shallows by O.Chinnappa Reddy, OUP, 2008, Rs.795, pp.337. At last, a truly insider’s account of the Supreme Court? I have not yet read the...
The argument that engaging with merely the “Constitution” is not enough to make sense of how constitutional tasks are performed in legal systems may, at first blush, seem surprising to some. Two...
The following cases were heard at length in the Supreme Court this week. This is a select review of what I consider as important. 1. Kunga Nima Lepcha vs. State of Sikkim: W.P.(C)353 of 2006: Heard...
Supreme Court’s performance has come under close scrutiny in the Parliamentary Standing Committee’s 28th Report on the Supreme Court (Number of Judges) Amendment Bill, 2008. The Report...