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Aishwaryasandeep

Censorship of streaming platforms

Over-the-top platforms also called OTT platforms are the new way of entertaining people and providing people with short films, feature films, documentaries, and web series. Days are gone when people used to watch movies and tv shows on television, now everybody is watching it on their phones and laptops through these OTT platforms. In several…

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WHAT DOES JUSTICE MEAN TO ME?

“right is right, even if everyone is against it. And wrong is wrong, even if everyone if for it” William Penn. Most of the times, justice is taken as a synonym to morality i.e., to see whether a cause is right or wrong, serves society with a greater purpose, or to simpler terms, does it…

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Negotiable Instruments

Negotiable instruments are written orders or an unconditional promise to pay a fixed sum of money at a certain time period. Promissory notes, bills of exchange, drafts, and certificates of deposit are all different forms of negotiable instruments. The word negotiable means ‘transferable by delivery,’ and the word instrument means ‘a written document by which…

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ARTICLE-370 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA

Article 370 acknowledges the special status of the state of Jammu and Kashmir in terms of autonomy and its ability to formulate laws for the state’s permanent residents. In the 1954 Presidential order, among other things, the Fundamental Rights in the Indian Constitution were made applicable to Kashmir with exceptions.The article was included in the…

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RIGHTS OF BAILEE AND PLEDGEE

Bailee’s Rights: 1) Right to compensation: Under section 164 of the Indian Contract Act the bailor is responsible to the bailee for any loss that the bailee may sustain as a result of the bailor not being entitled to make bailment or receive back the goods or give directions regarding the goods. Essentially in situations where…

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Alternatives to imprisonment (part 3)

PRОBATIОN The word probation is derived frоm “prоbare” a Latin wоrd meaning “a periоd оf prоving оn trial”. It has been well defined as fоllоws:  “Prоbatiоn is a methоd dealing with specially selected оffenders, and cоnsists оf cоnditiоnal suspensiоn оf punishment, while the оffender is placed under persоnal supervisiоn and is given individual guidance оn treatment.…

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