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Sedition :(Chequered History & Present Status)
Black's Law Dictionary defines sedition as"An agreement, communication, or other preliminary activity aimed at inciting treason or some lesser commotion against public authority" – "The line dividing preaching disaffection towards the Government and legitimate political activity in a democratic set-up cannot be neatly drawn. Where legitimate political criticism of the...
Revisiting The Infamous Emergency & Its Impact On Legal Community
45 years ago, on this day, the central government led by Late Mrs. Indira Gandhi imposed the infamous National Emergency in the country ("Emergency"). The Emergency lasted for 21 months and is considered to be one of the darkest phases of independent India. It saw widespread human rights violations, censorship of the press, rampant arrest of dissenters etc. Most importantly, it was the...
Intersection Of Artificial Intelligence, Copyright And COVID
The topic for today's discussion at first look can appear extremely confusing and hazy. However, a deeper analysis would show that the topic is extremely well thought out and relevant. The term Artificial Intelligence ("AI") has been used in recent years in almost every field of human life. Every social and economic aspect seems to have some benefit from the use of AI. What...
Desperate Need To Inject Professionalism Into Domestic Arbitrations
India has often wondered why it is not the hub of arbitration and has brought about multiple amendments to meet this aspirational target. However, part of the problem is not only the law, which is being addressed by amendments, but is also the lack of professionalism by every single person who is participating in the process. This lack of professionalism, which makes the process...
The Law And The Dead; Necrophilia
The Criminal Justice System is dynamic in nature. As a result, it becomes a task to cope with new situations that may arise in our society. It faces the questions on the abstract concept of what is evil and how the justice system must weed out the same. What is essentially immoral can be relative and subjective term, having said that, what can never be undermined by the individual, is...
Fast Track Arbitration: Revving Up ADR In Times Of Pandemic
With the Courts grappling with the pandemonium perpetrated by the proliferation of PILs in the pandemic, perplexed litigants are propelled to explore alternative avenues for resolution of commercial, contractual and corporate disputes. While many corporations and individuals have resorted to a friendlier and frugal mode of redressal, such as conciliation and mediation, others are in...
Child Pornography In India During The Lockdown: Are Our Children Safe?
During the global pandemic hour and countries being in lockdown, people including both children and adults are spending more time online and excessively using the internet. Resultantly, causing increase in production and distribution of child sexual abuse material due to excessive use by perpetrators, adversely targeting children using the internet. The link between child pornography...
Cleaning Cash- Understood Otherwise
IntroductionLaundering, in basic terms, is understood as the process of making a dirty, clean look. This is not as we have understood in recent times as cleansing of the money tainted with viruses using a dis-infectant but, cleaning of the bad money (money earned through illegal means) making it appear as a clean(laundered) money, earned legally. In other words, it is nothing but making...