Author: LexQuest Foundation
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Miles To Go Before You Go Green: A critical analysis of Green Highways (Plantation & Maintenance) Policy, 2015
By Archishman Chakraborty, Symbiosis Law School, Pune. Green Highway is a new concept that includes a roadway design integrating the functionalities of transport and ecological sustainability. The Green Highway Policy is an ambitious plan by the Government of India, to transform the country’s 96,000 National Highways with green cover which makes it mandatory to allocate an amount running…
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Yettinahole River Diversion Project
By Yashika Jain, National Law University, Delhi. Karnataka has been contemplating over diverting waters of the west flowing rivers to the east for many years and the answer to this, as proposed by the Karnataka government, is the Netravathi River Diversion Project. Netravathi, the lifeline of Southern Kannada districts, is thus under threat.
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Judiciary and the Environmental Protection Laws in India
By Anshika Juneja, Symbiosis Law College, Pune. It is fascinating to note that natural resources have been put away virtually untouched in the Earth for a large number of years. Be that as it may, since the beginning of the industrial revolution, immeasurable measures of these resources had been exploited within a period of only two…
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Debating the Mid-Day Meal Scheme
By Maithili Parikh, Government Law College, Mumbai. With the twin objectives of improving the health and education of the underprivileged, India has embarked upon an ambitious scheme of providing mid-day meals (MDM) in government and government assisted primary schools, starting from 2004. However despite the broad-based efforts of the Central Government for more than a decade and…
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The raising dissent against Capital Punishment
By Pragya Dhoundiyal, Law Center-1, Faculty of Law, Delhi University. The changing global political dynamics has brought India and Germany closer. Recently, Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany visited India along with her delegation. Progress was made on various fronts, however the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty, could not culminate successfully even though the negotiations have been on since…