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Uniform Civil Code

Uniform Civil Code is the ongoing point of debate within the Indian mandate to replace personal laws based on the scriptures and customs of each major religious community in India with a common set of rules governing every citizen. In India, the purpose of the Uniform Civil code is to replace the personal laws based…

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CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT, 1986 AND 2019

CONSUMER DEFINITION In oxford dictionary, a consumer is defined as a “purchase of goods or services”. In black’s law dictionary, it is explained to mean “one who consumes. Individuals who purchase, use, maintain and dispose of produces and services. According to Section 2(1) d, of the act, “consumer” means any person who- Buy any goods…

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Void Agreements

Introduction Agreements have become an inseparable part of our daily lives today; we enter some or the other kind of agreement almost every day. It would not be wrong to say thereby that agreements play an immense role in governing our daily intercourse. It would be a mistake for someone to assume however, that all…

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IMPORTANT COMMITTEES: PANCHAYATI RAJ

·        The introduction of Panchayati Raj took decades of consulting and various discussions before the institution of Panchayati Raj came into being. ·         Various committees submitted the recommendations on the functioning and modalities of Panchayati Raj. ·         Taking into account these recommendations,  the parliament in after the 73rd constitutional amendment,  which brought Panchayati Raj institution…

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PANCHAYAT EXTENSION TO SCHEDULED AREAS (PESA)

Introduction Under the 73rd constitutional amendment , there is a provision under article 243 M (4)(b), whereby the parliament may by law extend the provisions of the Panchayats to the scheduled areas provided under Scheduled 5 and Scheduled 6. “Scheduled Areas” mean the Scheduled Areas as referred to in Clause (1) of Article 244 of the…

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CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (IDENTIFICATION) BILL, 2022

INTRODUCTION The parliament recently passed THE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (IDENTIFICATION) BILL 2022. The bill has drawn public discussions on the right to privacy. The purpose of the bill is to re-define ‘‘measurements’’ to include finger impressions, palm-print, and foot-print impressions, photographs, iris and retina scan, physical, biological samples and their analysis, etc, the bill also seeks…

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Vicarious Liability

Introduction: Liability for commission of tortious acts generally only attaches to a person responsible for commission of such tortious acts. There however exists an exception to this general norm. Under certain circumstances, liability for commission of tortious acts attaches to a person who has not actually committed the tortious act, under the law of torts…

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Competence to Contract

Introduction Just about every transaction that we enter into on a day-to-day basis is predicated on a contract. To exemplify, when we purchase a ticket to spectate a motion picture or a sporting event or purchase groceries from a grocer, we enter into a contract. However, a legal fact that is often disregarded is that…

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