A criminal contempt: - Prashant Bhushan guilty tweet based on distorted facts. Advocate and activist Prashant Bhushan, held guilty of contempt of court on August 14 for two tweets against present Chief Justice SA Bode and past four CJIs which the Supreme Court found was based on distorted facts and amounted to a scurrilous and malicious attack on apex…
In this case Keshavnanda Bharati[1] had challenged Kerala reform law nearly four decades court set the principle that the supreme court is a guardian of the essential structure of the constitution of India and therefore the verdict involved 13 judges, the most important bench ever to take a sit within the apex court. The apex court ruled that the…
On 13th July 2020, every devotee’s, as well as Travancore royals’ eyes, were on the two-judge bench of the Supreme Court which was to deliver its judgement in the Padmanabhaswamy Temple case. For the former, it was a question of their faith and for the latter a battle for their rights. The case had been pending before the Apex Court ever since…
Balochistan is one of the four provinces of Pakistan. It is the largest province in terms of land area forming the southwestern region of the country but is the list populated. Balochistan shares a border with Punjab and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to the northeast, Sindh to the east and southeast, the Arabian sea to the south, Iran to the…
Narcotics drugs and psychotropic substance have been regarded as one of the worst enemies of the human through centuries and continued to be regarded so as in this technological and scientific age. Drug abuse and drug trafficking is a global phenomenon, has acquired the dimension of an epidemic, affects the economic policies of the state, corrupts the system, and…
Protecting Stateless Children: Are we doing enough? The growing menace of statelessness is not an alien concept to legal fraternity which recognizes it as one of the the major sources of rights violations across the globe. Stateless people are those who are “not recognized as nationals by any State under the operation of its law.” As per reports, an estimated 10 million people…
The recent instance of invoking sedition laws in several instances has again raised questions on the undemocratic nature and validity of those laws within the present constitutional democracy. It is said that these laws have survived the demise of colonial rule. The analysis of the appliance of the sedition laws by the assorted courts of India shows how they need become outdated for the present society and there are…
Yes, victim of road accidents can claim compensation under the motor vehicle act of 1988. As per section 166 of the Act, a person claims compensation if : he has sustained an injuryhe is the owner of the property he is the legal representative of the person who died in the motor accidenthe is the agent authorized by the injured…
In response to the PIL filed by Save Life foundation in 2012, SC directed Centre to issue certain guidelines in 2014 which are later approved in 2016 for the protection of good Samaritans - The option of becoming a witness in the matter shall solely rest with the Good SamaritanIf a Good Samaritan chooses to be a witness, they…
A police officer can refuse to file F.I.R depending on the nature of the complaint. F.I.Rs are lodged only for cognizable offences and for non- cognizable offences a complaint is submitted to the Magistrate who in return ask the police for action. Cognizable offences - In these offences a police officer has authority to arrest a person without a…