Month: June 2015
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AfPak Intelligence Co-operation Deal : A Study
By Anjali Bisht, Law College Dehradun. The world community received a shock when the two enemy States, Afghanistan and Pakistan decided to enter into an intelligence cooperation deal. Quite a lot of heads turned around in disbelief, because the past relationship between the two States has rather been unpleasant for at least two decades now. What makes…
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Removal of Surya Namaskar from International Yoga Day: Are we missing out on the bigger picture?
By Tanya Shrivastava, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun. Be it the Babri Masjid case or riots against Operation Blue Star or a case as recent as the Atali Village riots, why is it that we Indians are so impatient and intolerant towards our religion? More than believing in it, we romanticize our religious beliefs. Why…
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Meenakumari Committee Report: An Analysis
By Deepshi, Gujarat National Law University. About the committee: A seven-member committee, headed by Dr. B. Meenakumari, Deputy Director General (Fisheries), Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) was formed for comprehensive review of deep-sea fishing Policy. It was appointed after Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaking at the Eighty-sixth Foundation Day and Award Ceremony of the…
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Nestlé’s product Maggi at controversy
By Ashish, Faculty of Law, The ICFAI University. Nestle India is facing the biggest crisis in last three decades as its product maggi is at controversy for not satisfying the quality of the product. Maggi, India’s best known comfort food after staples such as rice, dal and wheat but the sale of Maggi is decreasing day…
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Endorsing Partisan Agenda in disguise of Public Awareness?
By Anaida Kuthiala, Army Institute of Law, Mohali. The grundnorm of India provides for the constitution of a public fund known as the Consolidated Fund of India1 meant for setting off the expenditure incurred by the government. In the largest democracy of the world, the law requires that there is no arbitrary use, misuse or ‘disguised use’…
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Rights of a woman when arrested
Akash Agarwal, Amity Law School, Noida. When the women’s literacy rate is just 65.46% (as per census 2011), everyone can analyse their doleful condition prevailing in the society. Most of the women don’t even recognise the rights provided to them by the Constitution and other laws of India. One of the significant rights provided to women…
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Child Abuse: Silent cries of a Child
By Anjali Bisht, Law College Dehradun. As I was sipping coffee while going through the newspaper, a news caught my eye. My eyes remained stuck on the news as the subject has always baffled and filled my heart with disgust. The news was about an eight year old girl who was raped and brutally murdered…
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Lifting of AFSPA in Tripura hailed as “Victory for Sanity”
By Surbhi Agrawal, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun. It all started when Terrorism was at its peak in the State. AFSPA, i.e., Armed Force (Special Powers) Act, is a controversial law which gives sweeping emergency powers to the Army in troubled areas. This power is not only an inadequate power but an unlimited power which…
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The curious case of Delhi
By Deepshi, Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar. It all started after Chief Secretary of Delhi, Mr K.K Sharma went on a leave for 10 days on may 13th 2013; little known Shakuntala Gamlin was suddenly in the news. A 1984 batch IAS officer, she was given the charge of Chief Secretary by the LG Najeeb…
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Marital Rape Law in India
By Kartavi Satyarthi, National Law University, Jodhpur. “…… Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution…..” ~ British philosopher and political activist Bertrand Russell Rape per se is an offence against women, violating her dignity and self-respect and…