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Rights of Victims

By Abhinav Mehrotra With the Supreme Court setting aside the Allahabad High Court order granting bail to Ashish Mishra, son of a union minister accused of running down farmers in his SUV, an impor...

A Doctrinal Breach

By Mathews J Nedumpara We inherited from the British a wonderful legal system. The British were not doing us any charity in providing this; they needed a sound legal system for the governance of t...

No Muddying the Waters

By Shivanand Pandit Recently, while dealing with a case of GST on ocean freight, the Supreme Court pronounced an important judgment covering the scope, authority and limitations of the GST Council...

Unprecedented Move

By Vivek K Agnihotri  On May 13, 2022, using its omnibus powers under Article 142 of the Constitution of India, the Supreme Court in an unprecedented step ordered that existing judicial and a...

Yet Another Filter

By Vikram Kilpady If you are one of those parents who suffer­sleepless nights due to the high percentages in Class 10 and Class 12 needed for your ward to make it to college and he/she is coasting...

Pray, Why Were Rules Flouted?

By Vikram Kilpady Monarch of the 8th century Karkota dynasty Lalitaditya Muktapida would surely be happy that prayers were offered recently at Martand Sun Temple, which he had commissioned, in Ana...

A Bridge too Far?

By Tahir Mahmood The media recently reported a case in which the Madhya Pradesh High Court had directed the Arya Samaj to solemnise marriages among its followers in accordance with the Special Mar...

My Master’s Wish…

By Ashutosh K Sharma The word police is derived from the Greek word polis, which means city. It was used as politia in the Latin language, which means civil administration. Basically, the dictiona...

How India elects its President

By Vivek K Agnihotri Recently a news item added a new dimension to the presidential elections. It was reported that in the presidential elections scheduled in July 2022, the value of the vote of a...

Miscarriage of Mercy

By Lokendra Malik and Yogesh Pratap Singh Professor Upendra Baxi defines a crisis as a situation where “the structure of a social system allows fewer possibilities for problem-solving than are nec...

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