Introduction In accordance with the Constitution of India, the Parliament and the state legislatures in the nation have the powers to make laws within the scope of their specified jurisdictions. But this power, however, is not absolute in nature. The Constitution provides the judiciary with powers to adjudicate upon the constitutional validity of all the…
Former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22.5 years in prison for the murder of George Floyd, whose dying sigh below Chauvin’s knee sparked the biggest anti-racial outcry in America in generations. The sentence, which did not reach the 30 years requested by prosecutors, came after Chauvin broke more than a year of…
In the contemporary liberal-democratic era, where the right to personal liberty is near-universally recognised as of utmost importance and courts around the world readily interfere in cases concerning its infringement, preventive detention laws need to be examined with skepticism. They are a tool for detaining individuals and curtailing their right to liberty, not because of…
Ambit of basic structure doctrines (case laws) The basic framework theory, which has been established by the Indian Supreme Court through various seminal decisions over the years, introduces the required element of constitutionalism, which is vital to the upkeep of the spirit of the constitution text, to uphold, defend, and sustain the thicker principle of…
The Meaning of Breakdown of Constitutional Machinery in India- India adopted the Canadian model of federation which tilts the balance in favour of the Union. The constitutional provisions empower the Union to give directions to the States in normal times as well, because Article 355 enjoins on the Union the duty to protect States against…
“Euthanasia means as an action which aims at taking the life of another at the latter’s expressed request. It concerns an action of which death is the purpose and the result.” This definition applies only to voluntary euthanasia and excludes the non-voluntary or involuntary euthanasia, the killing of a patient without the patient’s knowledge or…
Introduction: – Article 15 is prohibitory article, which says that every discrimination on the grounds of religion, race, cast, sex, place of birth, is invalid. But article 14 has an exception and it says making separate rule is essential for public welfare i.e. discrimination with intelligible differentia, rational nexus and natural justice, is valid. Example:…
The new millennium may signify many things, but what it should signify to Indians is that there is very little life to read the writing which is clearly visible on the wall supposed to introspect or otherwise the future as you want it to be can never be yours. Though India is the largest democracy.…
Introduction To understand the subject, we need to understand the Constitutional requirements of reservation i.e. how can a reservation be called as constitutionally valid one. It is well advocated that “equality is among equals”, if we try to understand the meaning of the said phrase with an example, it means if there are two candidates…
In a judgment on Tuesday, June 29, the Supreme Court directed the Centre, states and Union Territories (UT) to complete the implementation of the scheme of One Nation One Ration Card (ONORC) by 31st July. The ONORC scheme was launched in 2019 by the Union Government in four states on a pilot basis. This scheme…
