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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Free Basics: Free Basics was a programme launched by Facebook on February 10, 2015. It was relentlessly opposed right from the time it was launched as internet.org in early 2015. Many raised doubts about it, as ‘.org’ instead of ‘.com’ is only provided to charitable organizations and providing internet connectivity to a few handpicked people does not make it a charitable institution. Facebook then renamed…
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…
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…
Introduction to Lokayukta: Lokpal is an anti-corruption ombudsman organization in India and Lokayukta in the Indian states. Lokpal has jurisdiction over all the Members of Parliament and Central Government employees and Lokayukta is its counterpart in all states. Ombudsman is a public advocate usually appointed by the Government but with significant independence who is charged with representing the interest of public by insvestigating and addressing…
‘Surrogacy is technology’s way of saying life must go on’ Meaning: Surrogacy means a contract wherein a woman carries a pregnancy for another couple. It dates back to biblical times. Women throughout history have faced infertility issues. But, modern surrogacy kicked in, in the 1970s. There are two kinds of surrogacy: (i) traditional, where the surrogate mother and the commissioning father are the genetic parents and…
Legal Aid: Society is guilty if anyone suffers unjustly Legal Aid indicates free legal service to poor people who cannot afford to approach big law firms that advice opulent people or thriving companies. At times, these poor people do not even have the money to approach smaller law firms or individual lawyers and as it is spiteful to leave them in that position, the concept…
