Summary: In this piece, we continue the discussion on Dr. Farrah Ahmed’s Chapter on Fraternity forthcoming in the Cambridge Companion to the Constitution of India. The article can be...
[Editorial Note: This post is a part of a new initiative – New Scholarship, through which we aim to promote recently published scholarship in the area of Public Law. As part of this series, we...
[Editorial Note: This post is a part of a new initiative – New Scholarship, through which we aim to promote recently published scholarship in the area of Public Law. As part of this series, we...
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Life without Remission: An Irreviewable and Unconstitutional Punishment
In this piece, the authors look at the new trend in the Indian judicial system, of remitting death sentences to life sentences, but without the option of further remission under any circumstances.
This post is not a summary of the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Jindal Stainless Ltd v State of Haryana, Civil Appeal No. 3453/2002 (2016) (“the Entry Tax case”). Other contributors to this blog...