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Fighting a Lone Battle

The pandemic has exposed faultlines in the State’s labour policies towards informal workers, leading to abject poverty in many cases. It has highlighted the limitations of social security and flaws i...

Killer Cops

Recent custodial deaths show that despite the laws of arrest being stringent in India, there are few safeguards like abroad. An effective legal system, education and good pay could mitigate police violence

Scope of Development of Uniform Civil Code in India

Abstract:  This paper focuses on the opinions of Uniform civil code and its application, the research focuses on the central meaning of the Uniform civil code and its implications. This paper comm...

Capital Punishment: A Roving Ethical Conundrum

The concept of capital punishment is a form and part of the “Punitive or Retributive Theory of Crime

NCLT bench: Technical members should be there only to assist judicial members

Technical members come out in a judge’s uniform and hold court, without a law degree and/or a bar council registration

PM CARES Fund: Shrouded in Secrecy

Ever since the Fund was created, it has been beset by controversy for being non-transparent. Though this has reached the SC, the centre is in no mood to answer any questions

Voting Wrongs

A move by the Election Commission ahead of the Bihar polls to allow those aged 65 and above to vote via postal ballot petered out after Opposition allegations that it would expose them to influence and mischief

The Trump Card of Judicial Review

In two recent cases—President Donald Trump’s tax returns and staying the cancellation of an Obama programme on immigration—the US Supreme Court stood its ground and though in a situation of subpoena by the Congress, it upheld the separation of powers doctrine

Covid-19 & Education: Sternest Test

The UGC’s announcement that final-year exams are compulsory in the midst of the pandemic drew petitions from students across the country even as some central varsities are keen to conduct them online

Legal Economics of a Mafia

The gruesome murder of eight police personnel in the city of Kanpur and the subsequent encounter of Vikas Dubey and his associates pose very serious questions on the role of various stakeholders including the higher judiciary in India.

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