Author: LexQuest Foundation
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Sheena Bora Murder Case: The elite society murder mystery
By Shrutika Garg, Jamnalal Bajaj School of Legal Studies, Banasthali Vidyapith. Also known as the mother of all murder mysteries, the infamous Sheena Bora murder case came in the media’s glare and has eventually become one of the most mysterious cases in Indian history. Sheena’s alleged mother Indrani Mukherji, an Indian HR consultant and media executive, her…
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Should there be minimum educational qualifications for contesting elections in India?
By Akash Agarwal, Amity Law School, Noida. In a recent case, the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India stayed the New Haryana Panchayat Law i.e. Haryana Panchayati Raj (Amendment) Act, 2015, which prescribed the minimum educational and other qualifications for the candidates contesting local body elections in Haryana which were scheduled to be held on 4th October, 2015.…
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Should India Say Yes to the US Demand to Homogenise Nuclear Liability Law? A Dangerous Recourse
By Vershika Sharma, National Law University, Jodhpur. The Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act, 2010, (hereinafter referred to as “the Act”), though highly debated and controversial, makes India one of the most powerful and toughest nuclear liability regimes in the world, only second to Austria that bans nuclear energy completely. It protects the interests of the nuclear…
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Indigenous Ranking Framework for Higher Education
By Anshika Juneja, Symbiosis Law College, Pune. Higher Education is defined as, ‘education at universities or similar educational establishments, especially upto the degree level’. The government has unveiled an indigenous ranking framework for higher educational institutions that it believes will give Indian institutions a competitive platform free of any international bias. The Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry…
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Towards Inclusion
By Pragya Dhoundiyal, Law Center-1, Faculty of Law, Delhi University. The United Nations was established with the objective of maintaining peace in the world and to prevent any further outbreak of war. To give shape to this objective, the Dumbarton proposal suggested establishment of an executive organ of limited membership whose prime responsibility would be to maintain…
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New Government’s hold on Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission
By Yashika Jain, National Law University, Delhi. Under the Ministry of Urban Development, UPA government launched a massive city modernisation scheme, named after the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission. The scheme was launched in December 2005. Initially, the scheme was launched for a period of 7 years, but later…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…