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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Tag: Corruption
SC reiterates the Vineet Narrain limit for impunity provision
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?
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’?
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
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
[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
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
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
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
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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