As the saying goes, 'knowledge is power, information is liberating.' I am Prerana Saraf, an Advocate from Bangalore. I started Legal Parley to bring to you a facile understanding of the social issues that India and the world at large faces in the light of the existing laws. In the process, it aims to enable people to comprehend situations better, thus spreading legal awareness.
Cyber Security: ‘I dream of a Digital India where cyber security becomes an integral part of our national security.’ – Narendra Modi It was in 1980s that Tim Berners Lee founded the World Wide Web (WWW) and with that, gave way to modern internet. The internet swamped the world in such a way that soon all activities undertaken in the real world penetrated into the cyber…
Euthanasia in India: Euthanasia is a debate that arose with the development in technology. Until then, a person suffering with sickness would either recover or die. However, technology has made the situation patchy as it can extend the life of a person artificially sans full recovery and can also painlessly terminate the life of a person using drugs. Hence, euthanasia has been a topic of…
National Bankruptcy Law: India finally passed the much-awaited national bankruptcy law in order to allow banks to recover their debts in a timely manner from insolvent companies. “Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.” -Ogden Nash Law Present until now for Insolvent Companies: Until now, Sick Industrial Companies (Special Provisions) Act, 1985 (SICA) was…
Guidelines on operation and use of UAVs in India UAVs to be used by Karnataka Police: By now, everyone has read about how Karnataka Police Department is the first to own and operate drone fleet. About 20 policemen have been trained and given the exclusive task of operating the drones. It is certainly a major technological development that would make the police’s job a lot…
Right to be Forgotten: Right to be forgotten is defined as the right ‘right to silence on past events that are no longer occurring.’ It comes from the profound wish of being forgiven and forgotten for one’s past mistakes. None of us would want to be reminded or judged for a mistake we committed in our past. A misdeed, we have already been punished for….
Justice Thakur makes an emotional plea saying ‘If nothing has worked till now, I hope my emotional appeal does.’ Chief Justice of India, Justice Tirath Singh Thakur was addressing a joint conference of Chief Ministers, and Chief Justices of High Courts with Law Minister, D.V.Sadananda Gowda and Prime Minister, Narendra Modi on dais. He made a heartfelt plea to the government to increase the number of…
Marital Rape: ‘Laws on marital rape cannot be “suitably applied in the Indian context due to various factors like level of education/illiteracy, poverty, myriad social customs and values, religious beliefs, mindset of the society to treat the marriage as a sacrament, etc.” Remember when Women and Child Development Minister, Maneka Gandhi had written this to the Rajya Sabha when asked about plans to criminalise marital…
Enemy Property Ordinance: Enemy Property Ordinance was re-promulgated by the Centre on April 2, 2016. An ordinance to amend the 46 years old Enemy Property Act, 1968 was approved by the President, Pranab Mukherjee on January 8, 2016. With this, the NDA government has followed the footsteps of the UPA Government. UPA Government had also introduced an ordinance to amend the Enemy Property Act. However, the…
Prenuptial Agreement: You don’t know a woman, until you have met her in court – Norman Mailer A fair amount of couples are opting for a prenuptial agreement these days before they take the plunge. A prenuptial agreement or prenup ‘is entered between two individuals who are about to get married, outlining the state of their finances and personal liabilities in case the marriage fails.’ Prenuptial…
Panama Papers’ Leak: Panama Papers’ leak is a work done by a special team over a period of eight months starting from July. The project was called The Prometheus, a new ICIJ (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists) project on offshore companies considered as one of the most ambitious collaborative journalism. They had to work on the leads by going through 2600 GB of data, which…
