In an interview with the BBC, the Pakistani singer Ali Sethi spoke of zamana (loosely translated as, the times one lives in) being the ultimate muse in Urdu poetry, or the ‘great enemy’. For, to be...
In part two of the blog, the authors argue how IPC doesn't have a presumption of constitutionality, being a colonial law, and hence deserves a examination on its prima facie text, instead of a simple...
In this two-parter, the authors make a case for the unconstitutionality of Section 124A of the IPC, considering the recent change in Indian jurisprudence, namely that pre-constitutional laws like the...
(This is the second part of the post, where the authors make an argument regarding using the Unconstitutional State of Affairs doctrine to evaluate the legality and possible challenges to the...
In this two-parter, the authors discuss the impact of recent trends of bulldozing houses, speculated by observers to be politically motivated, on the rule of law. They suggest importing the...
In an order dated 19 September 2022, the Supreme Court for the first time in 42 years has referred issues relating to capital sentencing to a Constitution bench. Driven by the objective to revisit...
In this piece, the authors submit that Noel Harper judgment falls short in testing the impugned amendments to the FCRA on the doctrine of proportionality, inasmuch as the four-prong test of...
Ashwani employs textual and conceptual analysis of provision-specific exceptions to rebut Justice Harishankar’s arguments that the MRE forms a part of the main definition clause. He argues that the...
The phenolphthalein test is prevailingly used by the ACB for investigating a 'corrupt' public servant. However, the self-incriminating nature of the test attracts the vice of unconstitutionality...
Between 2019 and 2020 the Parliament passed four codes that re-organized the existing labour laws in India. The Code on Social Security, 2020, for the first time, introduced gig and platform-workers...