10 Reasons Why The Sabarimala Reference To 7 Judges Is Problematic14 Nov 2019 2:21 PM GMTThe Supreme Court by a majority of 3:2 found that there is apparent conflict between a 7 judge bench decision in Shirur Mutt (1954) and a 5 judge bench decision in Durgah Committee, Ajmer (1962). A...
What Is A "Review"?14 Nov 2019 11:24 AM GMTArticle 137 of the Constitution of India allows the Supreme Court to 'review' any judgment passed by it. According to the jurisprudence of the Court, a review is to be granted in exceedingly rare...
Ayodhya Verdict Is Not A Precedent To Correct Alleged Historic Wrongs By Previous Rulers10 Nov 2019 9:02 AM GMT
The arrests of two CPI(M) activists by Kerala police under the draconian Unlawful Activities(Prevention) Act over pro-Maoist pamphlets have ignited debates on this anti-terror legislation.The police...
'Har Sokhta Dhar Kashmir May Ayad Dhar Murge Kabab Ast Ball Wa Par Mein Ayad.' I was in my 4th Grade in 2004, when my father used to sing this farsi couplet by a poet Urfi. It essentially means...
Jet Airways Case: Background The need for the implementation of proper legal framework for Cross Border Insolvency proceedings is triggered in Jet Airways Scenario. District Court in North...
The Battle of Poona was won on Diwali in 1802. Yashwantrao Holkar of Indore marched to Pune, consolidating his position in the Maratha Confederacy and emerged victorious against his Pune ...
IntroductionTime limitation of filing a suit/appeal/application stands prescribed under provisions of the Limitation Act, 1963. Sections 4 to 24 of the Act deal with exclusion of certain time periods...
The suspense and mystery on the real impact on RTI is now ended. The damage to autonomy of all Information Commissioners in India is more that what was expected. It was not just cutting the...
Regarding the test of likelihood of bias, Justice M Venkatachalaiah observed in Ranjit Thakur v Union of India (1985) :'As to the tests of the likelihood of bias what is relevant is the...
I had occasion to read from www.livelaw.in, a 66-page judgment dated 16-10-2019 rendered by 3 learned Judges of the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India in Vinubhai Haribhai Malaviya and Others v. The...
The Nation wants to know the intent and contents of the proposed amendments in criminal laws ensuing the statement of the Union Home Minister Mr Amit Shah that was made couple of weeks ago. Not ...
In 1950, the maximum number of judges in the Supreme Court was seven plus the Chief Justice of India. This number was increased to 11 in 1956, to 14 in 1960, to 18 in 1978, 26 in 1986, 31 in...
In a judgment handed down on October 22, a two-judge bench of the Bombay High Court found that the Central Bureau of Investigation's ['CBI'] surveillance of a businessman accused of paying bribes was...
1. The amendment of 2005 to Hindu Succession Act is a cauldron of confusions and inconsistencies. This might be because of factors such as imperfect language used in the amendment , inconsistent ...
This is a response to 'Section 50 NDPS Act: Understanding the Jurisprudence of Compliance', In the aforesaid article, the author has concluded that Section 50 requires a mandatory search...
A two-judge bench of The Hon'ble Supreme Court of India, in a recent judgment in Union of India v. Dimple Happy Dhakad (AIR 2019 SC 3428) set aside a Bombay High Court judgment, which had quashed ...
In a previous post, we discussed one of the peculiar features of the ongoing litigation regarding the communications shut-down and other restrictions in Kashmir. One of these features is the absence...
