AMU’s gay lecturer Ramchandra Siras, was first illegally filmed in a compromising position with another man, then suspended by AMU. Though reinstated by the Allahabad High Court, he was found dead — in suspicious circumstances …
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NUJS Law Review Special Issue on the Naz Foundation Case
The NUJS law review has just come out with its special volume dedicated to the landmark Naz Foundation judgment that effectively decriminalised same sex activities in India. Pursuant to its tradition of being an open …
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NHRC, the law and the police
Readers who read Justice Verma’s take on the Naz Foundation case will also be interested in a historical connection going back almost a decade. The NAZ case was born out of the NHRC rejecting a …
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Supreme Court declines immediate stay on Delhi High Court’s Naz Foundation judgment
The hearing on the SLP against Delhi HC’s July 2 judgment on Naz Foundation v. UOI (Suresh Kumar Kaushal v. Naz Foundation) began at 12.35 p.m. and ended at 12.50 p.m. at Court No.1 before …
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Q&A on Naz Foundation judgment
I found Vikram Raghavan’s three posts analysing the Naz Foundation judgment extremely useful to understand its significance. What I attempt in this post is to answer some of his concerns, as well as that of …
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Naz, minorities and personal laws
In this Telegraph piece, I have argued that given the innovations under Article 15 in Naz Foundation, all vulnerable groups now have unprecedented protection under law, and therefore all minorities, including religious minorities, should welcome …
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Extraterritorial application of High Court judgments: A riposte to Shivprasad Swaminathan
Guest Blogger Subramanian Natarajan I have been following with quite some fascination what is probably the only purely theoretical question to have faced the Indian constitution since the much vexed question of its amendability. I …
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Guest Post: Extraterritorial application of HC judgment
It is my pleasure to post on behalf of Shivprasad Swaminathan [LLB (ILS , Pune) B.C.L (Oxford)]. He is a Doctoral Student studying jurisprudence at Balliol College , Oxford. He is working on The Normativity …
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Navigating the Noteworthy and the Nebulous in Naz Foundation — Part III
This third, and final, post builds on posts of yesterday and the day before on the Naz Foundation Case. In today’s post, I discuss, among other things, the Delhi High Court’s use of “compelling state …
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Navigating the Noteworthy and Nebulous in Naz Foundation — Part II
Having celebrated Naz Foundation’s glorious ramparts yesterday, I turn now to critically appraise the decision’s side streets and alleys. I thought I would be able to complete that task in a single post today. However, …
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