Month: September 2015

  • Flouting the Flag Code

    By Maithili Parikh, Government Law College, Mumbai. The national flag of a country represents the hopes and aspirations of its citizens and this holds especially true for a sovereign democracy like India. The final revision of the specifications of the Indian flag was completed in 1968; the saffron was to represent renunciation; the white was to denote…

  • Security of the State versus Right to Privacy

    By Pragya Dhoundiyal, Law Center-1, Faculty of Law, Delhi University. The government of India recently came up with a draft of the National Encryption Policy which is also in place in many other countries. However, our draft has been compared to the drafts of some of the regressive countries of the Middle East because it appeared to…

  • Progression at the Cost of Alienation?

    By Gautam Adusumalli, Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, Delhi University. On the 7th of September, the Haryana State Assembly passed the Haryana Panchayati Raj (Amendment) Bill, 2015. By virtue of this, Haryana became only the second state in the country, after Rajasthan, to fix educational and certain other qualifications as eligibility criteria for the candidates to contest elections…

  • Sedition: Critical Interpretation

    By Anshika Juneja, Symbiosis Law College, Pune. KENNY- the Law of Sedition relates to the uttering of the seditious words, the publication of seditious libels, and conspiracies to do an act for the furtherance of a seditious intention. The Bombay High Court on Tuesday 22nd September,  directed the State not to implement its circular issued by the Home Department…

  • Much Ado About Taxing: A Legal Scrutiny Of Amazon’s Dispute With Tax Authorities In Karnataka

    By Archishman Chakraborty, Symbiosis Law School, Pune. In September, 2014, the Tax authorities in Karnataka barred Amazon India from selling electronics and several other products from its warehouse in the State, by cancelling the licences of third-party merchants who were working with the local unit of the world’s largest online retailer. Notice was served to more than…

  • Role of Local Self Government

    Local Self-government is the management and governance of local affairs by a local body or authority. These local bodies may be municipal corporations or panchayats. According to D. Lockard, local government may be loosely defined as a public organization, authorized to decide and administer a limited range of public policies within relatively small territory which…

  • Development Redefined: Analysis of Kerala Development Model

    By Yashika Jain, National Law University, Delhi. “To achieve as much as Kerala has done for a population of its size is no mean record in world history.”    —Amartya Sen The debate on economic policy has never been as riveting as it is today, based on the choice between the two ideal models of growth…

  • Is the Evidence Law in India all set to be overhauled?

    By Maithili Parikh, Government Law College, Mumbai. The Indian Evidence Act was originally passed by the Imperial Legislative Council in 1872 and contains a set of rules and allied issues governing admissibility of evidence in Indian Courts, an area of law of unparalleled importance in advocacy and litigation. The enactment and adoption of this code of law…

  • Domestic Surveillance and Right to Privacy

    By Anshika Juneja, Symbiosis Law College, Pune. Domestic Surveillance is the close observation of someone, often in order to catch them in wrongdoings. As defined by the government authorities, it is, “information that meets the stated or understood needs of policy makers and been collected, processed and narrowed to meet those ends which hold value to protect…

  • To Die or Not to Die, is the Question

    By Pragya Dhoundiyal, Law Center-1, Faculty of Law, Delhi University. Right to Life is a right of wide import. This right has always been a bone of contention because defining its limits and the ingredients of this particular right depends on the interpretation and understanding of life of the person who is analyzing it.