Even as I am trying to come to grips with the Mandal II Judgment (there is confusion whether Majority Judges favoured restriction of OBC quotas to undergraduate courses), I noticed that this post may...
In Ashoka Kumar Thakur v. Union of India (Mandal II case), the SC has refused to test the impugned law through strict scrutiny. However, it seems that this refusal is restricted only to affirmative...
The following are the links to the Mandal II Judgment delivered by the Constitution Bench today. Summaries and comments are welcome to facilitate a reasoned and informed debate on the Judgment...
Today’s Indian Express has an editorial that is sharply critical of this action. Here is how the Express sees the issue: Constitutional authorities like the Election Commission and the Comptroller...
The hearing of the PIL Occupational Health and Safety Association v. U.O.I in the Supreme Court today by the Bench comprising the Chief Justice and Justice R.V.Raveendran brought forth some...
Shoukat Hussain Guru is one of the convicts in the Parliament attack case, having been sentenced to 10 years R.I. He challenged his conviction (strangely by the Supreme Court as the trial court did...
Dr.Rajeev Dhavan has raised an important issue in today’s Mail Today on the constitutionality of Supreme Court’s PRO. Citing from the website of the Supreme Court, he asks whether it is...
The issue over commodities exchanges and trading of futures and options in respect commodities has been brought to the fore with the Left parties deciding not to support the Forward Contracts...
I am sure all of you have been following the debates about India’s stand in the latest violent uprising in Tibet. The views range from the sentimental, (we need to support them because of our...
Fresh from the workshop, I was tempted to read the legal stories in the newspapers in the light of what one learnt from the Judges and senior advocates. Here is a sample of how newspapers reported...
Two quick updates on my last post on housing discrimination against Muslims and religious discrimination in general. 1. Private Discrimination: Ravi’s comment on my last post said that “I...
Today, W.P.© 580 of 2003, Common Cause v. Union of India & Ors came up for hearing before Justices H.K.Sema and Markandey Katju in Court No.4 of the Supreme Court. Even as the petitioner’s...
The second day of this interesting workshop began with a discussion on how journalists should report the filing of First Information Reports. The Additional Solicitor General, Gopal Subramanium...