The National Advisory Council (NAC) has in its agenda, among other things, giving legislative inputs to the Government. This it does, by preparing draft Bills on important issues. But little is known...
In two excellent posts (here and here), Rohit and Tarunabh have brought to light interesting aspects of the decision in Nandini Sundar. In today’s Hindu newspaper, I offer my thoughts on the...
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Given that this blog has discussed the Hazare campaign in detail, readers may be interested in my EPW article on the legislative reform lessons we should learn from it. I have made similar arguments...
This post continues the conversation Rohit has already begun on this very interesting case. The following are the most important orders given by the Justices Sudershan Reddy and Surinder Singh Nijjar...
In a pathbreaking judgments, Justices Reddy and Nijhar of the Supreme Court ruled that the Chattisgarh governments arming of tribals to act as vigilantes as unconstitutional. The judgment can be...
By Arushi Garg The government’s notification exempting the CBI under Section 24 of the RTI Act (which allows exemption of intelligence gathering agencies from the RTI Act) has sparked a controversy...
A recent interview of Justice J.S.Verma’s on CNN-IBN, with Karan Thapar, seems to suggest that, as the Chief Justice of India, he was against Justice Punchhi’s elevation to the Supreme...
By Anuj Kapoor In the last Joint Committee meeting of the members of the drafting committee for Lokpal Bill on 21st June, the government members and the members from the civil society were unable to...
While we are discussing corruption in India, it may be interesting to look at the recent decision of the Constitutional Court of South Africa in Glenister v President of the Republic of SA [2011]...