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Real Estate Development - Need To Simplify Legal Procedures
More often, several real estate development projects are stalled at a very primary stage, may be at the stage of procurement of land, or in process of seeking various permissions under different statutes. The unhappiness amongst the real-estate developers as regards the complexities in the procedures and in getting the required permissions, appears quite genuine. It is noticed that many litigation proceedings, at least by or against the respective State Governments arise due to delay in...
The New Law On Rectification Of Register Of Members Of Companies – A Need To Reconsider The SC Judgement In Shashi Prakash Khemka V. NEPC
A short judgment of the Supreme Court in Shashi Prakash Khemka v. NEPC Micon (2019) SCC OnLine SC 223 ("Khemka") has become particularly significant in the Indian law governing actions for rectification of the registers of members of a company. Such actions are usually preferred by persons who claim to be members of a company and whose membership (such as name, extent of shareholding held, etc.) is not correctly reflected in the register of members that is statutorily required to be ...
Manchester City Ban: A Significant Moment In Regulation Of "Financial Doping" In Football
In a session organised by the Guardian in 2015 on the increasing influence of money in English Football, Duncan Drasdo, CEO of the Manchester United Supporters Trust commented, "The growth in revenue has attracted the wrong kind of owners, particularly those looking to use clubs as a cash cow". The negative influence of money was always lurking over the game but never came out as to be formally criticized until 14th of this month. The last season EPL champions Manchester City...
Hubli Bar Resolution: Denial Of Justice
On February 15th, the Hubli Bar Association in coastal Karnataka passed a resolution dictating that none of its lawyers would appear for the three Kashmiri students accused of Sedition and arrested for allegedly raising "Pakistan Zindabad" slogans. The three accused are students of Engineering in a city college and were arrested on Sunday. They have been sent to judicial custody till March 2. According to Guru F Hiremath, the General Secretary of the Bar Association, "The...
J&K Farmers Denied Benefits Of Fair Compensation Law
After abrogation of Article 370 , the 86 year old Jammu & Kashmir Land Acquisition Act 1934 got automatically repealed. From last many years there has been a strong demand from affected landowners, farmers and activists for enactment of a strong land acquisition law in Jammu & Kashmir. Farmers in J&K whose land is being acquired on large scale for various infrastructural projects have been demanding fair compensation but successive Governments in J&K were adamant to...
Hate Speech & Media : Lessons From Rwandan Genocide
Recent times have seen a highly worrisome trend of few popular media houses acting as platforms for spreading hate-speech and malicious propaganda against minorities and critics of the establishment.Casual but dangerous labels like "tukde-tukde gang", "urban naxals", "anti-nationals" etc, are thrown at those who do not subscribe to the majoritarian narrative. In the given context, it becomes necessary to explore the relation media has with hate speech, the extent of their...
Online Harassment: How Delhi HC Asked Facebook To Retrieve Lost Data Of A Deleted Profile?
The Petitioner in this case had filed a complaint against her in-laws for online harassment. She had also complained about receiving 'filthy messages' and pornographic pictures from a Facebook account named 'Sumit Sethi'. Due to inordinate delay in investigation, and continued harassment by threatening calls, the Petitioner filed a complaint before the ACP/Public Grievance Cell (Rohini District) against the officers of the Cyber Crime Cell (Economic Offences Wing) for dereliction of...
Remembering Enrica Lexie - Italian Marines Case On 8th Year Of Sea Firing
On February 15, 2012, when the fishing boat 'St. Antony' set sail from Neendakara harbor in Kollam district in Kerala, little did the fishermen aboard it anticipate the danger which was awaiting them in the seas.It must have felt like a regular day in their lives with the the usual toil in seas for livelihood!At about 4.30 PM, at a distance of about 20.5 nautical miles from the coastline, their fishing boat happened to pass "Erica Lexie", a tanker flying the Italian Flag. Two marines...
Women In The Armed Forces: Are We A Regressive Society?
"Women are often associated with peace and men are often associated with warfare"This deep-rooted association of gender with tight-roped, often vacuum-sealed roles has been embossed throughout most cultures in history. Since war has usually been defined as a male activity encompassed with "highly-valued" masculine characteristics, the image of women warriors has been seen as inherently unsettling, entailing a symbolic rupture with the dominant gender order based on separation of male and...