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Freedom of Speech and Expression and Defamation
By Kush Kafra Free speech, which is guaranteed by Article 19(1)(a) and made subject to certain limitations in Article 19(2), is essential to a democracy, for democracy is fundamentally based on free debate and open discussion. A citizen has the right to exercise free speech in a democracy by discerning information and eventually making a…
Provisions for Victims of Sexual Offences under Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
By Apoorva Tomar “Victimology, a burgeoning branch of humane criminal justice, must find fulfillment, not through barbarity but by compulsory recoupment by the wrong-doer of the damage inflicted, not by giving more pain to the offender but by lessening the loss of the forlorn.” Victimology emerged as a new branch of criminal law in the…
Children in Conflict with Law
By Dr. Sailaja Petikam The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act was enacted in the year 2000 to provide for the protection of children. The Act was amended twice in 2006 and 2011 to address gaps in its implementation and make the law more child-friendly. During the course of implementation of the Act,…
The Dynamic Law on Adultery
By Tanya Arora The word adultery in its general understanding means when a pure substance is adulterated or made impure by contamination. Its usage in the legal sense is not too different. Adultery means when a pure and honest relationship between husband and wife is contaminated or adulterated by an extra-marital affair, making the said…
Indo-Irish Relations – A Tale of Two Natural Allies
By Anoop Bose, Advocate, Supreme Court of India The prodigious British Prime Minister Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, once remarked, on a veiled laudatory note, ‘We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English!’ I have always been an indefatigable admirer and protagonist of Ireland, the warm, wider and wonderful country…
Should Capital Punishment Be Abolished?
By Ishan Agarwal Years ago, when human civilization was still evolving, man did only what was beneficial for him, or at best what was beneficial for his family, his tribe or his clan. However, now after centuries of so-called progress, mankind has been burdened with an added social responsibility, to care not only for himself…
Cross Voting
By Dr. Kavita Garg Freedom of speech and expression has always been the point of contention in Indian society. This unlimited freedom has been filtering through the past several months, be it a protest against the hanging of Afzal Guru, cross voting in the Rajya Sabha election, or an objection to censor films in a…
Insolvency in India – Opinion on the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016
By Dr. Sailaja Petikam Recently, the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016, the Bill was passed by Lok Sabha on 05-05-2016 (Bill No. 349-C of 2015). It is a comprehensive legislation relating to insolvency, liquidation etc., irrespective of whether insolvency relates to companies, individuals or partnership firms. At present, companies can be liquidated either voluntarily or…
Obscenity: Present and Possibilities
By Mohammad Abid Hussain Ansari On 15th April, 2013, an Indore-based advocate filed a Public Interest Litigation in the Supreme Court for a ban on pornographic content available on the Internet. Acting under the government placed before the Constitution Advisory Committee the issue of pornography, to place a copy of the writ petition before it…
The Tragic Death of Lal Bahadur Shastri & The Mystifying Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Angle
By Anoop Bose. The 11th of January 1966 was one of the darkest days in India’s chequered history. Barely one and a half years after taking over as the second Prime Minister of India, Lal Bahadur Shastri died in Tashkent in the former Soviet Union after signing the historic Tashkent Declaration with the Pakistani President…