Year: 2015

  • Networking the Networks: Disencumbering Money Laundering?

    By Sonal Srivastava, Amity Law School, Lucknow. Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley inaugurated the three day conference on “Networking the Networks” on November 2, 2015 in the capital city of India- New Delhi. Among the key participants were the representatives of top international groups including Interpol, the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units, Financial Action Task Force,…

  • Dharma and Gandhian Philosophy of Satyagraha

    By Sandhya Shyamsundar, WBNUJS, Kolkata. Bhishma, in the Mahabharata, states that Dharma changes according to the needs of time and hence develops with society. However, it has certain permanent moral values like truth, compassion, self control and forgiveness which continue to exist. It is in this context that Dharma and its three branches hold relevance in…

  • Analysing the viability of Net Zero Imports under the Digital India Programme

    By Archishman Chakraborty, Symbiosis Law School, Pune. It has been oft repeated with a sigh of cynicism in recurring debates, as to what impedes development in India, as that the heart of the problem lies in the fact that there is no heart at all – a lethargic absence of political will. The current Indian Govt. has…

  • Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana: An Analysis

    By Vershika Sharma, National Law University, Jodhpur. Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana is an institution set up by the Government of India (GoI) to provide funding to the non-cooperate/non-farm sector income generating activities of Micro and Small Enterprises or Unorganised Business Enterprises whose credit needs are below 10 lack provided through various Last Mile financial institutions like Banks,…

  • Right to Information: An Analysis

    By Shalvi Singh, WBNUJS, Kolkata. The Right to Information Act (RTI) came into force on 12th October, 2005. It replaced the erstwhile Freedom of Information Act, 2002. The Act was passed to “set out the practical regime of right to information for citizens in order to promote transparency and accountability in the working of every public authority.”…

  • Need For Sentencing Policy in India

    By Dipti Khatri, UPES, Dehradun. “Sentencing” is the final stage of delivering Justice to the convict and victim. In India, punishment is given according to own applied thoughts of Judges and within statutory limit. For some offences, the maximum punishment is prescribed and for some, it is minimum. In some cases, Judges lower down the punishment using…

  • U.S. funds Pakistan’s Projects: A setback to India’s Relations with the Western Hegemony

    Yashika Jain, National Law University, Delhi. A recent move by the US to mobilise funds for the two major dams that Pakistan has been striving to build has left India unsettled. U.S. hailed this infrastructure project as Pakistan’s “smartest choice” for economic development and has pledged to extend its support in funding the same. The two dams, Diamer-Bhasha Dam…

  • A glance through National Judicial Appointments Commission

    By Sonal Srivastava, Amity Law School, Lucknow. The Supreme Court on 16th October, 2015 unanimously declared the National Judicial Appointments Commission as unconstitutional and ordered the revival of the Supreme Court scripted two decade old ‘judges selecting judges’ collegium system. However, Supreme Court agreed that the present collegium system needs reforms and asked for suggestions from the…

  • Uniform Civil Code: Time to bring it into force?

    By Kanishka Mishra, University of Delhi. When Uniform Civil Code will get its flesh and blood, it will be a unified legislation combining personal laws of various communities of India and forming a singular law which would include provisions for marriage, divorce, inheritance, adoption, maintenance, property, succession and so on. As of now, Hindus and Muslims are…

  • Judicial Accountability in the Indian Legal System

    By Shalvi Singh, WBNUJS, Kolkata. Under the doctrine of the separation of powers, the judiciary generally does not make the law (which is the responsibility of the legislature) or enforce the law (which is the responsibility of the executive), rather it interprets the law. Judicial independence is one of the features of ‘Rule of Law’ as popularised by…