Introduction Albertina Almeida in her article ‘Goa’s Civil Code Shows That Uniformity Does Not Always Mean Equality’ on thewire.in,has shed light upon the pros and cons of uniform civil code which was introduced in Goa by Portuguese in the year 1867. In the above-mentioned reading Albertina Almeida explains differences in civil code in Goa and rest of India.…
Introduction The similarity of instant death is considered the best guarantee of the truth of the declaration made by a dying person. A dying statement is made by a conscious individual who believes that death is imminent and communicates information about the cause or circumstances surrounding it. This information can be admitted as evidence in…
The Internet has already become the commercial backbone of the world economy. As it increases in importance for the national and international economy, its smooth, trouble free operation will be seen as essential to commercial and national interests. More than 131 million Indian consumers have been victims of cybercrime and India has lost INR 1.24…
INTRODUCTION Public Interest Litigation under Article 32 of Indian Constitution means litigation for the protection of the public interest. PIL is litigation introduced in a court of law, not by the aggrieved party but by the court itself or by any other private party. It is not necessary to file Public Interest Litigation by the…
INTRODUCTION The Uniform Civil Code (UCC) calls for the formulation of one law for India, which would be applicable to all religious communities in matters such as marriage, divorce, inheritance, adoption. Uniform Civil Code is a proposal in India to formulate and implement secular personal laws of citizens which apply to all citizens equally regardless…
“Judicial review of legislative actions with respect to socio-economic rights has attracted intriguing debate among the constitutional law and political science scholars for some time now”. But time and again the judiciary has taken the liberty to comment upon numerous policies enacted by the legislature.This is evident in Anuradha Bhasin vs Union of India and Puttaswamy judgement.This review implies the power…
Section 11 of the code of Civil Procedure, 1908, embodies the rule of res judicata or the rule of conclusiveness of the judgment, as to the points decided either of facts, or of law, or of facts and law, in every subsequent suit between the same parties. It enacts that once a matter is finally decided by…
Transparency in Public Administration would go to mean that any citizen of India either has fundamental right or a statutory right to have access to information about the state affairs. Furthermore, denial of access to any information to the public by the public authorities, without proper reasons, would be offence under the law. But would…
The word bureaucracy together with communism and imperialism forms a trident, the most forceful weapon in the armoury of words so widely used in the present day political controversies. In free translation a desk government. But in common use, it acquired colour and power as emotion raiser and battle cry. Through distortion and extensive caricature…
The Indian Federalism failed when these five states demanded for separate insurgencies: Kashmir and Punjab in North India and Mizoram, Nagaland and Assam in the Northeast, but after that no such case arise in which the secessionary revolt happened at the polity of two states as the ultimate purpose of Federalism in India to keep…
