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.
Chargesheeting rate in rape cases is high. Conviction rate has, however, gone down post-Nirbhaya incident. If stricter laws were a solution, we should have had a better situation.
The HRW report only goes to show how structures of “due process” often don’t work, especially for women at the intersections of multiple marginalisations.
Maharashtra was one of the first states to roll out a landmark scheme for helping rape survivors and victims of child abuse following the outrage over the gang-rape of a photojournalist in a Mumbai mill in 2013.
The Human Rights Watch in their report released in November 2017 examines the implementation the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013, and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences, Act, 2012. I share here the findings of an eight week long court-room ethnography conducted in a fast track court (FTC) in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh in April and May of 2015.
If there is bad blood between the CEC and the Opposition leaders, it will shake the people’s faith in election results. It’s the worst thing that could happen to Indian democracy.
Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.
New Delhi: India has handed over military equipment, medical supplies, and trained animals to the Nepalese Army Monday, ahead of Prime Minister K.P. Sharma...
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
The article throws light to the crisis in top court now. It is horrifying to imagine that our Supreme Court is itself arrogating power to itself which in political terminology means “authoritarianism” in spirit. Even during emergency era In 1975 the federal ssystem i.e.High Courts stood as palladium of justice but for the Superior Court when it declared by 4: 1 majority that no fundamental rights exists.Then Justice HR Khanna was dissenting judge who was hailed by New York Times even for Standing up high.
There appears to be a tussle to assert authority and incumbant CJI requires absolute power. It may not be reassuring at all when there are seeds of disunity amongst the judges . Justice Chelemeswars judgement in momentus case rejecting Judges appointment by Collegium and his outspokenness seem to have earned wrra
The article throws light to the crisis in top court now. It is horrifying to imagine that our Supreme Court is itself arrogating power to itself which in political terminology means “authoritarianism” in spirit. Even during emergency era In 1975 the federal ssystem i.e.High Courts stood as palladium of justice but for the Superior Court when it declared by 4: 1 majority that no fundamental rights exists.Then Justice HR Khanna was dissenting judge who was hailed by New York Times even for Standing up high.
There appears to be a tussle to assert authority and incumbant CJI requires absolute power. It may not be reassuring at all when there are seeds of disunity amongst the judges . Justice Chelemeswars judgement in momentus case rejecting Judges appointment by Collegium and his outspokenness seem to have earned wrra