Today’s newspapers are devoting considerable attention to a recent decision of a division bench of the Supreme Court consisting of Justices AP Mathur and Markandey Katju. This is how the news-item in the Indian Express …
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Trial Court judgment in the Uphaar Tragedy: “A Much Needed Precedent”
The quotation marks in the heading of this post refer to the title of a recent EPW editorial, which begins as follows: The judgment delivered recently by a Delhi sessions court that upholds the guilt …
Continue readingRandom thoughts on Defending the Indefensible
Today’s Hindu carries an op-ed by Vishnu V. Shankar on the subject mentioned in the title. Here is how he begins: What connects Captain Preston, Kehar Singh, Saddam Hussein, Manu Sharma, and Salim Hamdan? Besides …
Continue readingHarish Khare on what constitutional actors within India can learn from recent events in Pakistan
This post continues the theme addressed in the previous one. Harish Khare , the political editor of the Hindu, has a stimulating and provocative piece in today’s issue where he begins by commenting on the …
Continue readingJoining the debate on Arundhati Roy’s ‘Scandal in the Palace’
Personal circumstances have prevented me from being active on the blog. However, I have followed the debate over Roy’s Oct 2007 article in Outlook as it has unfolded here. My purpose in this post is …
Continue readingThe status of Election Commissioners vis-a-vis the Chief Election Commissioner
As we near Independence Day, the papers are full of retrospective pieces, and the talking heads are holding forth on what makes India tick. One institution which is now credited with playing a significant part …
Continue readingRecent PIL cases decided by the Supreme Court
I thank V. Venkatesan for drawing my attention towards recent columns in the Business Standard by MJ Antony, several of which relate to ongoing legal developments in India. A month or so ago, Antony wrote …
Continue readingJudging and Politics: Using an American lens to raise some questions about the Indian situation
The latest issue of the New Yorker has a short but interesting assessment of the judicial output of the U.S. Supreme Court over the last year. The author of the article is the noted legal …
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