1. Law Commission’s 210th report seeking omission of S.309 IPC making attempt to commit suicide an offence. 2. My critique of NHRC’s report on Salwa Judum. 3.My review of Supreme Court’s judgment in Mahmadhusan Abdulrahim …
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Today at the Supreme Court
Beginning today, the Constitution Bench comprising the Chief Justice, Justices R.V.Raveendran, J.M.Panchal, D.K.Jain, and P.Sathasivam has started hearing a bunch of petitions challenging the 73rd and 74th Constitutional amendments, providing for reservations for backward classes, …
Continue readingMany Facets of Judicial Review
THE EDICT – National Law Review organised a two-day conference on Judicial Review: The Current Controversy in New Delhi on October 25 and 26. The students from NALSAR undertook the Edict initiative and the Eastern …
Continue readingFreshman History (link via NYT)
Check this out. It is a hilarious collection of passages from freshman history papers (link via today’s blog on Laugh Lines, NYT).
Continue readingGUJCOCA and Article 254
Recent terrorist attacks throughout India have seen the BJP severely criticize the Congress approach to tackling terrorism. One issue that has been highlighted, especially by Narendra Modi, has been the central government’s refusal to assent …
Continue readingMarriage registration: a few questions
After reading Tarunabh’s piece today, I was wondering whether the Law Commission’s latest report had anything to say on some of the actual problems faced by those seeking to register under the Special Marriage Act, …
Continue readingSingur & the Right to Property
There is an interesting piece in the Statesman today by the senior advocate, Bishwajit Bhattacharyya. The author blames all the three, Mamta, Tatas and the West Bengal Government for the fiasco, but emphasises that the …
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An Insider’s Account of Indian Supreme Court?
The Court and the Constitution of India: Summits and Shallows by O.Chinnappa Reddy, OUP, 2008, Rs.795, pp.337. At last, a truly insider’s account of the Supreme Court? I have not yet read the book,(having got …
Continue readingThe Indian Constitution “outside the Constitution”
The argument that engaging with merely the “Constitution” is not enough to make sense of how constitutional tasks are performed in legal systems may, at first blush, seem surprising to some. Two recent pieces of …
Continue readingSUPREME COURT: A weekly select review -I
The following cases were heard at length in the Supreme Court this week. This is a select review of what I consider as important. 1. Kunga Nima Lepcha vs. State of Sikkim: W.P.(C)353 of 2006: …
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