Lokendra Malik

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The Supreme court has disapproved the practice of sealed covers which violate the fundamental principles of the administration of justice. A democratic country does not need a secret judicial system.

These words were said during the freedom struggle. Then India attained freedom on August, 15, 1947. In 1950, it became a republic with the world’s lengthiest Constitution. But in the 21st century, the question that requires a serious answer is: What does it really mean to be a Republic

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CJI Ramana asked the A-G to use his good offices to talk to the centre about evacuation of students from Ukraine. The Court is the guardian of fundamental rights and has a good record in protecting them.

Poetry sometimes is reflected in legal prose. Justice, like equality and democracy, is a word of ambiguous import and possesses a basic absolute meaning and plural relativist meaning(s).

Our Constitution is a constructive one. There is no room for absolutism. There is no space for anarchy. Sometimes it is argued, though, in a different context, that one can be a ‘rational anarchist’, but the said term has no term in the constitutional governance and the rule of law. Fulfilment of constitutional idealism ostracizing anything that is not permissible by the language of the provisions of the Constitution and showing to its spirit and silence with a sense of reawakening to the vision of the great living document is, in fact, constitutional renaissance,” observed Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra in his judgment in the famous Delhi government case in 2018.

The Tamil Nadu assembly passed the NEET Exemption Bill once again without accepting the suggestions offered by Governor RN Ravi a few weeks ago. The governor had returned the Bill to the assembly for its reconsideration after keeping it pending for around four months. Even the Supreme Court had held the NEET scheme to be in complete conformity with the Constitution as it addresses the issues of social justice.

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