Tag: justice
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Article 324(2): The Legal Tug of War?
By Anmol Kaur Bawa, Symbiosis Law College, Pune. Anoop Baranwal v. Union of India, Ministry of Law and Justice Secretary (Writ Petitions Civil Case no. 104/2015), is the recent PIL case, filed in the Supreme Court, which has managed to sprout a new series of debate between the Judiciary and other wings of the Government. The…
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Exceptions to Principles of Natural Justice: Part I
By Adv. Shriya Maini. “There are no Victors in the game of law until the Court verdicts…” Justice is the most important task of Rule of Law of the State. The role of an attorney is an integral part of the justice system of the State which fails its society if the litigant is not…
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Judiciary, Media and Public Opinion: An Overview
By Arifa Khan, Post Graduate College of Law, Osmania University, Hyderabad. The media is regarded as the fourth pillar of any democracy. An independent media is necessary for keeping a check on the government and its organs. But with the increasing corporatisation of media and the race to grab more eyeballs for higher numbers, the media…
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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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Would India be justified in doing away with the Death Penalty?-Decoding the 262nd Law Commission Report
By Vershika Sharma, National Law University, Jodhpur. India is one of the 59 countries in the world that still retain death penalty even after the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 62/149 on 18-12-2007. 262nd Law Commission Report is the outcome of references made by the Supreme Court in death penalty matters to discuss and re-examine its…
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Capital Punishment: A Crime for a Crime?
By Shruti Sharma, Campus Law Centre, Delhi University. The killing of a human being by another human being is generally known as Homicide. But not all killings of human beings are Homicidal or rather illegal. Some killings are absolutely legal and enforceable and are better known as Capital Punishments, i.e., execution of the offender. The term Capital…
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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…