India is the birthplace of many religions and is also known as the nation of spiritual beliefs, culture, and intellectual thought. Person to person, perceptions of ‘religion’ differ; it is totally a question of choice and belief.Part III of our Indian Constitution provides and guarantees a number of essential rights. Freedom of religion is one…
Article 76 and 78 deals with the Attorney General of India. The Attorney General of India is the most noteworthy law official of the country. He is capable to help the public authority in the entirety of its legitimate issue. The President designates the Attorney General (AG). The individual who is selected ought to be…
Uniform Civil Code (UCC) is a set of laws that apply uniformly across the country to all religious communities in personal issues such as marriage, divorce, inheritance, and adoption.[1] Article 44 of the Constitution mentions about the UCC which says that the State should endeavour to secure a uniform civil code for its citizens. The…
Astrology is a pseudoscience that causes divine data about human issues and earthbound occasions by examining the developments and relative places of heavenly items. astrologer has been dated to at any rate the second thousand years BCE, and has its underlying foundations in calendrical frameworks used to foresee occasional movements and to decipher heavenly cycles…
Our constitution doesn’t provide for any specific right to clean, wholesome and pollution-free environment. The lacuna has however been set off by judicial activism as a consequence of which a few of the fundamental rights have been articulated for environment protection. Article 14 It states that “the state shall not deny to any person equality…
INTRODUCTIONPublic interest litigation is not defined in any statute or in any act. It has been interpreted by judges to consider the intent of public at large. Although, the main and only focus of such litigation is only Public Interest there are various areas where a Public interest litigation can be filed. For e.g.– Violation…
INTRODUCTION Our Constitution makers borrowed this concept from Irish Constitution (Article 45), it has its genesis in Spanish Constitution. Part IV of the Constitution of India deals with Directive Principles of State Policies. To understand the meaning of the directive principle of state policy, we need to understand the meaning of each word i.e. Directive…
The doctrine of legitimate expectation is a concept which has been evolved to exercise control over the discretionary power conferred on executive. This doctrine imposes a duty on public authority taking into consideration the entire relevant factor relating to such expectation. The origin of legitimate expectation can be traced in German concept of Vertrauenschutz –…
Introduction Public interest litigation is the use of the law to advance human rights and equality, or raise issues of broad public concern. It helps advance the cause of minority or disadvantaged groups or individuals. Public interest cases may arise from both public and private law matters. Public law concerns the various rules and regulations…
In a Constitution Bench decision of Hon‘ble Supreme Court in Shri Swamiji of Shri Admar Mutt etc. etc. v. The Commissioner, Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Dept. and Ors., AIR 1980 SC 1, while giving the majority judgment Chief Justice Y.V. Chandrachud referred to Broom‘s Legal Maxims (1939 Edition, page 97) where the principle in…
