Category: Blog
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A Rough Journey
By Shreyan Acharya, Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies, Delhi. “You need to be gutsy, you need to have fire in your belly” -Vijay Mallya The above quote indicates that Vijay Mallya, one of the richest Indian and stylish entrepreneur, does not fear in taking risk. Mallya’s policy of life is “live like king size”. Vijay Mallya…
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Question Continues: Justice or No Justice?
By Amrita Dasgupta, South Calcutta Law College. The number of pending cases, piled up with the Indian judiciary, is legendary. It has been estimated that it would take at least 320 years to clear off the total backlog of 31.28 million cases pending with various courts across the country.[1] After 13 years of the prolonged court…
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Freedom of Speech v. Freedom after Speech
By Sneha Baul, CLC, Faculty of Law, Delhi University. The Part III of the Constitution of India enumerates the Fundamental Rights. Freedom of speech and expression comes under “Right to particular freedom”. The rationale of its validity is that the fundamental rights are basic structure of the Constitution. Any law that abrogates or abridges such rights…
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Culpable Homicide and Murder: An Explanation
By Ashish, Faculty of Law, The ICFAI University. Culpable Homicide in the simplest understanding refers to taking the life of a person. The term constitutes of two words, culpable which refers to the mental element and homicide which refers to the physical element. Culpable denotes a ‘blameworthy state of mind’ and homicide refers to killing a…
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Real Estate Bill: A Critical Analysis
By Nayanika Tiwari, NMIMS School of Law. The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Bill was passed in the year 2013 by the then existing government. This Bill led to the formation of Real Estate Regulatory Authorities (RERAs). Under this law, any residential Real Estate project has to be registered with RERA. On registering the project, the promoter…
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Are the discounts given by e-retailers anti-competitive?
By Aayushi Mehta, University of Mumbai. Since time immemorial, consumers have known only one way of shopping- and that is going to the shop and buying what they need. We can know from the history of the early Roman Empire that efforts were made to prevent anti-competitive practices. Fines were imposed on anyone who deliberately stopped supply…
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Annulment of the Section 66A of IT Act
By Ravi Boolchandani, Amity Law School, Delhi. The common presumption for Section 66A is that, it is grossly negative in nature. Many people including learned legal professionals and people from various other professions argue that Section 66A was the murderer of the fundamental right to speech and expression while others say that it acted as an…
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Creation of Autonomy
By Shreyan Acharya,Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies, Delhi. “All Censorships exists to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.” George Bernard Shaw The year 1997 was a landmark year, which saw far reaching measures to free the broadcast media from the shackles…
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Press & Registration of Books Act, 1867: An Analysis
By Suhasini Srinivasan, Army Institute of Law, Mohali. The Press and Registration of Books Act, 1867 is the oldest of the existing Press Laws in India. One has to take his mind back to the second half of the 19th century to understand that the foreign government wanted to put a curb on the Press…
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Indira Nehru Gandhi v. Raj Narain: Case Analysis
By Pooja Meena, National Law University, Jodhpur. EQUIVALENT CITATION – AIR 1975 SC 2299 JUDGES INVOLVED IN THE CASE – A.N. Ray (CJ) H.R. Khanna M.H. Beg K.K. Mathew