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Why police and judiciary have taken Siras’s side

On April 22, 2010 By Vinay Sitapati In Uncategorized

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

On December 31, 2009 By Shamnad Basheer In Uncategorized

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

On July 24, 2009 By Tarunabh Khaitan In Uncategorized

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

On July 20, 2009 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

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

On July 12, 2009 By V.Venkatesan In Constitutional Interpretation, Constitutional Law, Delhi High Court, Discrimination, Equality, Fundamental Rights, Privacy

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

On July 11, 2009 By Tarunabh Khaitan In Uncategorized

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

On July 10, 2009 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

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

On July 9, 2009 By Tarunabh Khaitan In Uncategorized

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

On July 8, 2009 By Vikram Raghavan In Constitutional Interpretation, Constitutional Law, Delhi High Court, Discrimination, Equality, Fundamental Rights, Privacy

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

On July 8, 2009 By Vikram Raghavan In Comparative Law, Constitutional Interpretation, Delhi High Court, Discrimination, Equality, Fundamental Rights, Privacy

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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