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MPs, MLAs to be disqualified on date of criminal conviction 11 Jul 2013 | 07:39 am
SUPREME COURT OF INDIA THE HINDU The Supreme Court on Wednesday held that chargesheeted Members of Parliament and MLAs, on conviction for offences, will be immediately disqualified from holding memb...
The case that saved Indian democracy 24 Apr 2013 | 07:04 am
ARVIND P DATAR IN THE HINDU The judgment in Kesavananda Bharati v State of Kerala, whose 40th anniversary falls today, was crucial in upholding the supremacy of the Constitution and preventing authori...
A moment of triumph for women 26 Jan 2013 | 04:29 pm
By Kalpana Kannabiran Published in THE HINDU The comprehensive reforms suggested by Justice Verma and his colleagues will protect the right to dignity, autonomy and freedom of victims of sexual assau...
India’s benign constitutional revolution 26 Jan 2013 | 04:25 pm
By Shivprasad Swaminathan Published in THE HINDU How ‘We the People’ came to be the source of authority of the Constitution This is the story of how and why the framers of the Constitution of India de...
Making laws work for rape victims 23 Jan 2013 | 09:14 am
BY JONATHAN DERBY PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU Conviction rates improve when teams of lawyers and social workers supervise progress of individual cases in a spirit of cooperation with officials Today, the J...
Justice Verma panel for umbrella law on sexual assault 23 Jan 2013 | 09:01 am
Aditi Tandon in The Tribune New Delhi, January 22 Set up to review current laws on aggravated sexual assault following the brutal gang rape of a young girl in Delhi on December 16 last year, the Justi...
Going from Zero FIRs to e-FIRs 22 Jan 2013 | 09:23 pm
BY APARNA VISWANATHAN PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU The government must allow the online filing of first information reports in rape cases as that alone will ensure mandatory and automatic registration of co...
Blind to what, Your Honour? 31 Dec 2012 | 10:14 am
INDIRA JAISINGH IN THE TIMES OF INDIA Of all the promises made in the Constitution, the most important are the promises of the ‘right to life’, the ‘right to dignity’, the ‘right to personal liberty’ ...
The Leveson Inquiry – A Report into the Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press 8 Dec 2012 | 11:42 pm
Remarks by Lord Justice Leveson: Thursday 29 November 2012 For the seventh time in less than 70 years, there is a new report, commissioned by the Government, dealing with concerns about the press. It ...
Wake up and smell the ink 4 Dec 2012 | 08:37 pm
Justice Markandey Katju – ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU The Leveson report on the British press should jolt the Indian media into acting against ills such as paid news, and focus on being an agent o...
