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.
Self Defence: ‘When a man is penalised for honesty, he learns to lie.’ – Criss Jami, Salome Times of India report on expansion of scope of right to self defence: On June 16, 2016, Times of India had a front page headline stating that Supreme Court has expanded the scope of right to self defence. According to the report, the division bench comprising of Justices…
Garbage and Infrastructural issues keep Bengaluru away from Smart City tag In a short span of time, Bengaluru city has come to be known as ‘Garbage City’ from ‘Garden City.’ Neither did the government nor did the citizens give much thought to the deteriorating waste management in the city that has been defacing not just its grandeur but also people’s health. Apart from this, Bengaluru…
Cash for Votes instances have called for an amendment in the Representation of People’s Act, 1951 (RPA) “If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.” – Mark Twain Cash for Votes Row in Karnataka Proving Mark Twain right, a recent sting operation shows Karnataka MLAs demanding crores of rupees to support a member in the Rajya Sabha election to be held on…
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…
