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.
Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
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