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Sunday, May 12, 2024
TopicJudiciary

Topic: Judiciary

When courts start suggesting policy, Sita crosses the Lakshman Rekha

Courts providing or substituting policy alternatives to replace existing administrative measures is judicial overreach.

If the judiciary and executive are on the same page, it will be disastrous

President Kovind, PM Modi, and Chief Justice Misra's comments have reignited the debate about the separation between the executive and the judiciary.

Judiciary needs protection from itself, says Soli Sorabjee

Justice Chelameswar didn’t have authority to constitute a bench; CJI didn’t have to hurriedly nullify the bench and constitute a new one, eminent jurist says.

Need to have more OBC, SC, ST judges: President Kovind

President Ram Nath Kovind raises concern over low number of women judges as well, calls for speedy justice delivery.

A child who has harmed another sexually is likely to have been harmed

Modern scientific understanding and basic principles of juvenile justice require us to provide rehabilitation services to underage offenders

There are some things even the Supreme Court shouldn’t be allowed to change

SC itself has held that certain features of THE Constitution can’t be amended by Parliament; it should be the same when it comes to its own functioning.

Talk Point: Is the call to revisit some of our gender laws and their implementation valid or exaggerated?

Senior bureaucrat Aruna Sharma has lashed out at what she calls the “narrow approach in the name of women’s rights”. She believes this has led to a rampant misuse of law by women, asserting that such “activism” is resulting in men losing faith in the judiciary and the institution of marriage.

Talk Point: Steel secretary’s remarks shed light on a collective misogyny we all need to question

Aruna Sharma’s statement, and our instinctual response to subvert women’s voices and dilute legitimacy, sheds light on a collective internalised misogyny we all need to question.

Talk Point: Section 498-A is sometimes misused, implement July 2017 apex court order

Senior bureaucrat Aruna Sharma has lashed out at what she calls the “narrow approach in the name of women’s rights”. She believes this has...

Talk Point: Section 498-A: Most cases are filed to make monetary gains out of a failed relationship

Senior bureaucrat Aruna Sharma has lashed out at what she calls the “narrow approach in the name of women’s rights”. She believes this has...

On Camera

Khalistanis used organised crime to silence enemies in Canada. Who’s paying the price today?

Pro-Khalistan groups recruited ethnic-Punjabi organised crime cartels to murder secular opponents, terrorise the community and capture control of Gurudwaras.

Day after mass sick leave by employees, Air India Express fires crew members, cancels 85 more flights

About 300 employees had called in sick Wednesday, allegedly in protest against mismanagement of airlines. Remaining staff given ultimatum to rejoin work by end of Thursday.

Pensionless Maha Vir Chakra awardee who trained Mukti Bahini continues to fight for rights

Chiman Singh, injured in 1971 India-Pakistan war, was discharged as non-pensioner in 1972. In his petition, he states denial of pension is contrary to settled law.

What’s common between Netflix Chamkila and Trudeau’s trouble-infested Canada? They don’t get Punjab

Even in the weeks leading up to Chamkila’s assassination there were massacres every other day. To airbrush all of this is sheer intellectual cowardice if not a crime.