Month: August 2015
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Balaji Raghavan v Union of India
By Rashmi Singh, ILS Law College, Pune. Go through this interesting Power Point Presentation to understand the landmark judgement on Article 18 of the Indian Constitution.
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Need for a Common Market for Agricultural Commodities
By Yukti Makan, Symbiosis Law School, Pune. India derives approximately 50% of its national income from agricultural business. The marketing of the agricultural produce also varies from nation to nation, from state to state and it even varies within the state. Agricultural market practices need to be uniform in the interest of developing wider markets…
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Euthanasia: A Right to Die with Dignity
By Priyanka Agrawal, Chaudhary Charan Singh University. The phenomenal advances in medical sciences and technology have altered balance of human life and societal values. Pari-passu with these changes is the upsurge of affirmation of human rights, autonomy, and freedom of choice. These issues compel us to re-evaluate our concepts of societal, medical ethics and value systems.
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Internet Neutrality: Can India adopt it?
By Saurav Das, School of Law, Christ University. We must thank the telecom providers where it’s due. India has developed and on the tip of its boom due to its economy, people, education above all a good communication. Use of internet has always been a priority and this priority is greatly fulfilled by the telecom providers who…
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Analysing Death Penalty like never before: Shankar Kisanrao Khade v. State Of Maharashtra
By Sudipta Purkayastha, Gujarat National Law University. An eleven year old girl goes missing in the middle of the day. Forty eight hours later, the strangulated body of the hapless, mentally and physically handicapped child is found in a field. She is found to have been brutally raped. What happened? In July 2006, the young girl, staying…
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The Law of Injunction
By Saif Rasul Khan, Government Law College, Mumbai. The law of injunction in India has its origin in the Equity Jurisprudence of England from which we have inherited the present administration of law. The injunction is an equitable remedy,[1] that is, a remedy that originated in the English Courts of Equity. An injunction is a “judicial…
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An Unmitigated Look at Death Penalty
By Swarnalee Halder, Calcutta University, Department of Law. Yakub Memon’s execution has reignited debate on death penalty in India. There has been a huge debate around the world over the use of death penalty; whether it should exist or not. Every man has a right to live. Article 21 of the Indian constitution provides to its citizens…
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Mounting clamour for Inner Line Permit in Manipur
By Akash Agarwal, Amity Law School, Noida. In the law few days, there has been a major outcry, by the people of Manipur, for the introduction of the Inner Line Permit and for the withdrawal of Manipur Regulation of Visitors, Tenants and Migrant Workers Bill, 2015. Manipur witnessed widespread protests, which subsequently resulted in withdrawal of the…
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Net Neutrality: The Free Choice Conundrum
By Rashmi Singh, ILS Law College, Pune. ‘Net Neutrality’ is the word of the hour. There has been a lot of debate on the said topic in recent times. It has probably been so much in the news that one might believe that India has had internet since at least from its independence. Online campaigns,…