Right to Information Act (RTI), 2005 All human beings have three lives: public, private, secret – Gabriel García Márquez 1. Right to Information: The Constitution of India does not explicitly guarantee Right to Information. It is by means of Honorable Supreme Court cases that right to information has been read into Article 14, Article 19 and Article 21, which guarantee right to equality, right to…
Collegium System v. NJAC “It is difficult to hold that the wisdom of appointment of judges can be shared with the political-executive. In India, the organic development of civil society, has not as yet sufficiently evolved. The expectation from the judiciary, to safeguard the rights of the citizens of this country, can only be ensured, by keeping it absolutely insulated and independent, from the other…
‘Political will is missing to curb the black money issue’ – Porus Kaka, Senior Advocate, President, International Fiscal Association Introduction: Money that is unaccounted and has not suffered tax is known as black money. It is classified into two: (i) domestic and; (ii) foreign. Black Money is a parallel economy that represents a segment that is not legal. There are various sources through which black…
Eating Beef is a Personal Choice ‘Leave the cow alone, it does not wish an innocent human to be killed in its name.’ Introduction The recent lynching of a Muslim man called Muhammad Akhlaq for eating beef in his house has taken the country by storm. The incident is as jejune as it can get! This wallop of communal violence takes the country centuries back…
Nepal Constitution History: Nepal shares its geographical border with India and China is pretty obvious but it also shares its history with these countries. Nepal has always been on the receiving end with both India and China trying to frontier each other’s influence on the country. The earliest affair in the history of Nepal seems to be the migration of the Mongolian tribe to Nepal…
Refugee Crisis: “We Have a Chance To Save Lives. If We Don’t Take It, We May Regret It Like We Did With Alan Kurdi” –Widad Akrawi The current refugee crisis is far reaching and a worldwide trouble. Even though, refugees have been forced out of their country since many years, the world has taken note of it only now and rightly so! It is about…
Patidar Reservation ‘We are the descendants of Lord Ram… we are the descendants of Sardar Patel’ – Hardik Patel It is definitely a matter of stupefaction if you haven’t come across a Patidar (Patel) at least once in your lifetime. They are spread out and a prominent community not just in India but abroad as well. On the popularity meter, it is the second most…
Raksha Bandhan is a festival that celebrates the bond between a brother and a sister. Rakhi exemplifies the sister’s love and prayers for her brother’s wellbeing and inturn the brother avows to protect the sister forever. This Raksha Bandhan, Prime Minister, Naremdra Modi came up with an innovative idea to celebrate this festival and suggested brothers all around the country to gift their sisters, something…
Medical Negligence Law in India: The Indian society’s knowledge on patient’s rights has been growing promptly in the recent past. This is discernible with the progress in the number of litigation cases regarding medical negligence. The social goals of the medical malpractice law are to fend off unsafe practices and compensate for injury caused due to negligence. Medical Negligence is a failure to act reasonably…
Introduction to Trespass: Trespass is a physical interference by a person in a property belonging to another person. It could be a tort of trespass when there is a direct interference with the peaceful enjoyment of the land in the form of unlawful entry, unlawful placing of things or inducing dangerous things or animals into the land or it could be a criminal act. Section…