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Tag: Corruption

Should our political parties get big money in big sums?

On June 12, 2014 By Arun Thiruvengadam In Uncategorized

Guest post by Adithya Reddy As far back as in 1963, a nine judge bench of the Supreme Court held that corporations are incapable of possessing “citizenship” and are therefore not entitled to claim fundamental …

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SC reiterates the Vineet Narrain limit for impunity provision

On February 1, 2012 By Tarunabh Khaitan In Uncategorized

In Swamy v Singh, the Supreme Court has reiterated that the 3 month time limit imposed on the grant of governmental sanction under section 19 of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1988 for prosecution of …

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Do Kiran Bedi’s refund claims amount to corruption?

On October 21, 2011 By Tarunabh Khaitan In Uncategorized

As someone who is pleased with the unprecedented attention that Anna’s movement has brought to the issue of corruption in our public discourse, but critical of certain tactics of the movement which I fear can …

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Does the Jan Lok Pal Bill reflect ‘We the People’?

On August 22, 2011 By Vinay Sitapati In Uncategorized

In the latest episode of Barkha Dutt’s ‘We the People’, I argue that the Anna Hazare movement is driven by the urban middle-class, and this is reflected in the peculiarities of the Jan Lok Pal …

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Ram Jethmalani exposes the fraud of frauds

On August 14, 2011 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

When Ram Jethmalani exposed for the first time how the Central Government used the instrument of ratification to cover up corruption (on August 6 at CJAR convention in New Delhi -see Events page), it was …

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Justice A.K.Ganguly’s speech on Corruption

On August 9, 2011 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

[The following are excerpts from the Supreme Court Judge Justice A.K.Ganguly’s speech at the  release of the book on Corruption and Human Rights in India written by C.Raj Kumar, Vice-Chancellor of the O.P.Jindal Global University, and …

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Corruption: NCPRI’s alternative basket of measures

On August 4, 2011 By Tarunabh Khaitan In Uncategorized

The NCPRI has now made public its alternative proposals outlining the measures needed to tackle corruption. Further details are available here, here and here. There are many substantive differences between these proposals and the Jan …

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Anna and pre-legislative scrutiny

On July 7, 2011 By Tarunabh Khaitan In Uncategorized

Given that this blog has discussed the Hazare campaign in detail, readers may be interested in my EPW article on the legislative reform lessons we should learn from it. I have made similar arguments in …

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Corruption and Constitutional Rights

On June 14, 2011 By Tarunabh Khaitan In Uncategorized

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] ZACC …

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Tackling Corruption: The Bihar Way

On June 10, 2011 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

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 judgment …

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