Rs 500 and 1000 currency Not Valid From Midnight: 22 Points You Need To Know [Read Notification]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Today announced that the five hundred rupee and thousand rupee currency notes presently in use will no longer be legal tender from midnight tonight, that is 8th November 2016.“This means that these notes will not be acceptable for transactions from midnight onwards. The five hundred and thousand rupee notes hoarded by anti-national and anti-social elements...

A Female Child Is Entitled To Enjoy Equal Right Of A Male Child: SC Issues Directions To Curb Female Foeticide [Read Judgment]

The predicament with regard to female foeticide by misuse of modern science and technology has aggravated and enormously affected the sex ratio, said the Court.Supreme Court Today in Voluntary Health Association Vs State of Punjab, has issued additional directions to curb female foeticide by effective implementation of the ‘The Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques...

The Life And Times Of Justice V R Krishna Iyer

Justice V R Krishna Iyer (1915-2014) had it all that takes to be the cream of the crop among his contemporaries in terms of judgeship, statesmanship, leadership and much more that shaped him up as a dynamic legal practitioner, prominent legislator, minister for key portfolios in Kerala, member of Indian Law Commission, Judge of High Court and later of Supreme Court. He who began his...

Breaking: Sentence in #Nirbhaya Case Should Be Set aside: Amicus Raju Ramachandran [Read Written Submissions-Part-1]

He submitted before the Supreme Court that a fair hearing under Section 235(2) of the CrPC was not held in the case by the trial court that passed the judgment.Senior Advocate Raju Ramachandran, one of the two amicus curiae appointed by Supreme Court in the Nirbhaya Case submitted before the Court that the order on sentence passed by the Trial Court on 11.9.2013 and confirmed by the High...

Is There A Regulatory Vacuum At The Helm Of Television Content Regulation?

In relation to the imposition of a penalty of prohibition of transmission/re-transmission of NDTV India channel on any platform throughout the territory of India, for a period of 1 day, would this question be posed? In the event that it is posed, would the question be answered in the negative? If that be so, would it have the effect of rendering the prohibition order bad in law? This piece...

All You Need To Know About NDTV India Ban Order [Read The Order]

The ban on the telecast of the programmes of the television channel, NDTV India, for one day, has led to a huge uproar, involving freedom of expression, and the right to practise any profession, or to carry on any occupation, trade or business, as guaranteed by the Constitution, and the reasonableness of the restriction imposed on it, on the grounds specified in the Constitution.Also...

Dialing 19(1)(a) For The 9/11 Ban On #NDTVINDIA

The Ministry of Information and Broadcast (MIB) vide an order dated 02.11.16 issued through the Director, Broadcast prohibited NDTV India Channel from broadcasting/rebroadcasting for 24 hours on 09.11.16 as a ‘token penalty’ (referred to as the 9/11 ban hereinafter). This order follows the penal recommendation of an Inter Ministerial Committee (IMC)for allegedly revealing...

Selecting Judges For A Democratic India [Text of Justice Chelameswar's Speech at Wisconsin]

[This is the full text of speech delivered by Justice Chelameswar at University of Wisconsin]It is an honour to be present here and interact with the scholars and students of this great university. I was told that I could choose a topic that interests me most; it was, though, with a suggestion that the topic could be “Selecting Judges for a Democratic India” - a topic now widely debated...

The Uniform Civil Code Debate – What Is Missing

For the past several weeks there have been screeching debates on prime TV on the Muslim Personal Law and the need for a Uniform Civil Code. Unfortunately these issues are being dealt with only from the following three perspectives: A patronizing patriarchal perspective - which assumes the sub-ordination of women to men; The religious perspective – pertaining to the validity of certain...

Every Voter Has A Fundamental Right To Know The Educational Qualification Of A Candidate: SC [Read Judgment]

The apex court has held that every voter has a fundamental right to know the educational qualifications of a candidate. A bench of Justice Anil Dave and Justice L Nageshwar Rao dismissed the appeals filed by Mairembam Prithviraj Singh and Pukhrem Sharatchandra Singh. Both of them contested the Manipur Legislative Assembly elections from the Moirang constituency. While Mairembam who contested on...

Prosecution Sanction – A Former Judge Pleads Guilty

What prompted me to make this unusual confession is the painful realization that a past verdict of mine in Antony Cardoza V. State of Kerala 2011 (1) KHC 377=2011(1) KLT 946=ILR 2011 (1) Kerala 503, has unfortunately been responsible for several unmerited acquittals at various levels of the judiciary including in the High Court of Kerala. Antony Cardoza, the first accused in that case along...

The Curious Case Of Criticism, Court And The Constitution

Three principles attributes of God in Islam are Providence (Rububiyat), Mercy (Rehmat) and Justice (Adalat). In an unprecedented order, the Supreme Court (Aadalat) in its Rububiyat recently issued notice to its former judge (Justice Katju) and asked him to appear before it to find whether Rehmat can be given to a life convict. In his blog, tilted ‘Satyam Bruyat’ (means - speaking truth...