Month: April 2015

  • Bibek Debroy Committee Report: An Analysis

    By Pooja Meena, National Law University, Jodhpur. The railways operate more than 12,000 trains, carrying some 23 million passengers daily. This vast public enterprise is virtually a state within a state. It runs schools, hospitals, police forces and building companies and employs a total of 1.3 million people, making it the seventh biggest employer in the…

  • Free Treatment of Acid Attack Victims: The SC Verdict

    By Suhasini Srinivasan, Army Institute of Law, Mohali. The Supreme Court on 10th April, 2015 asked all private hospitals throughout the country to provide free treatment, including medicines and corrective surgeries, to all acid attack victims and that private hospitals could neither “turn away” victims of acid attack nor wash their hands off after providing first aid.…

  • Commendable Rescue: Another Chapter in Yemen’s Tale

    By Shreyan Acharya, Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies, IP University. The Middle East is witnessing the most horrifying bloodshed ever after the Gulf War. The horrors of massacre, atrocities, rapes, displacement have traumatised the people and left a deep scar in their hearts. the sectarian violence has caused the loss of thousands of innocent lives. The…

  • The Apprentice Act: An Analysis

    By Ankit Sharma, Siddhartha Law College, Dehradun. The Apprentice Act came into existence on 12th December in 1961 but it was enforced on 3rd March 1962 and also in 1968 with the amendment in the provision of sec 25 the words ”except Jammu and Kashmir” were expunged. The bill has been amended in 1973, 1986, 1997 and 2007. The…

  • Jammu & Kashmir Conflict: The recent doings

    By Sania Siddiqui, Amity Law School, Jaipur. The Kashmir conflict is a major territorial dispute between India and Pakistan that dates back prior to independence. While regular peace talks have occurred since 2010, a diplomatic solution has not been reached. The roots of the conflict between the Kashmiri insurgents and the Indian Government are tied to a dispute over local autonomy.…

  • India and Sri Lanka Ties: Learning from History?

    By Mahak Vijay, Raffles University, Rajasthan. History of relations between India and Sri Lanka India is Sri Lanka’s closest neighbor. The relationship between the two countries is more than 2,500 years old and both sides have built upon a legacy of intellectual, cultural, religious and linguistic interaction. In recent years, the relationship has been marked by…

  • Preventing Terror by Creating Terror

    By Shreyan Acharya, Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies. India is known to be the largest democracy in the world. It has strongly cherished the principles of secularism in which various religions have been guaranteed their freedom. Today, there is rampant sectarian violence throughout the globe. India has been recently applauded by David Heyman for being able…

  • Old Age Care: A Need of the Hour

    By Suhasini Srinivasan, Army Institute Of Law, Mohali. “The joys of parents are secret; and so are their griefs and fears.”- Francis Bacon “Indian culture seems too distant and fragile to sustain old age. A sense of tragedy haunts the future.” One is forced to ask ‘what is the use of the ideas of India; of…

  • Uniform Civil Code in India

    By Chandan Mohanty, KIIT Law School, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar. Here’s an interesting Power Point Presentation, prepared by our Research Associate, discussing the implications of imposing a Uniform Civil Code in India:

  • Decriminalization of Attempt to Suicide

    Decriminalization of Attempt to Suicide

    By Pooja Meena, National Law University, Jodhpur. The word suicide has not been defined in the Indian Penal Code. The Black’s Law Dictionary defines suicide as “The act of taking one’s own life. It is also termed as self-killing, self-destruction, self-slaughter, self-murder, felony-de-se or death by one’s own hand.“[1] In India, not only abetment of suicide…