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.
New Anti-Human Trafficking Bill passed by Maneka Gandhi, Women and Child Development Minister ‘Slavery still happening today in the form of Human Trafficking’ India has finally unveiled first ever-comprehensive anti-human trafficking law bill on 30th May, 2016. The Bill is titled Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2016. The Minister of Women and Child Development, Maneka Gandhi spoke on the occasion stating that…
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…
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…
Sectoral Analysis of Union Budget 2016. Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley presented the Union Budget for 2016 -17 on February 29th, 2016. The PowerPoint presentation below contains a brief sectoral analysis of the same. sectoral-analysis-of-budget-2016 EPF has been tax exempt in all three stages: investing, interest accumulation and withdrawal. This budget sought to impose tax on 60% of the corpus of the withdrawal. Concerns were raised regarding…
The JNU Episode: The JNU episode has estranged the people of this country like never before. Four students of Jawaharlal Nehru University who were ex members of Democratic Students Union (DSU) had sought permission to hold a cultural event. Subsequently, there were posters hung in the campus condemning the judicial killing of Afzal Guru and Maqbool Bhat and expressing solidarity with the Kashmiri’s right to…
Law that protects Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes “Together we imagine a circle of compassion with no one standing outside of it.” – Peggy O’Neill, S.C. It was in 2014 that UPA had promulgated Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Ordinance on 4th March. However, that was right before Lok Sabha elections. So, when NDA came to power, they referred the Bill…
Caste System in India ‘The value of a man is reduced to a vote, to a number, a thing – Rohith Vemula’ History of Caste System in India: Have you ever thought of how human beings were classified into different castes? Even wondered how it originated and why it is so ironclad that the society refuses to bid farewell to something that is man-made? Isn’t…
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…
