Euthanasia Judgment

Law, Rights & Society March 10, 2018

Euthanasia Judgment: The Quick Test of Ethical Validity Truth

Euthanasia Judgment: Introduction Supreme Court of India in its recent euthanasia judgment has included the right to dignified death by withholding/withdrawing medical treatment in case of terminal illness as part of article 21 of the Indian constitution. The terminal illness should be such that requires prolonged treatment or subjection to life support systems with incurability or no hope of curability. The above exercise of right to dignified death is commonly…

Triple Talaq Judgment

Judgments, Law, Rights & Society August 22, 2017

Triple Talaq Judgment: In Easy to Understand Bullet Points

Triple Talaq Judgment: the Facts with Respect to Interpretation • The practice of Triple Talaq is part of statutory law, not personal law, vide Nariman J and Lalit J. • The practice of Triple Talaq is part of personal law, not statutory law, vide CJI, Nazeer J. • The practice of Triple Talaq is part of neither personal law nor statutory law, vide Kurien J. • The practice of Triple…

India's Exit from Panchsheel

Politics & Governance July 5, 2017

India’s Exit From Panchsheel Is Complete: The Only Truth

Israel’s Conundrum Before discussing India’s exit from Panchsheel, let’s discuss Israel first. Our school invariably had two sections across the board: Section A and Section B. Section A was reserved for students living in Vihars: Preet Vihar, Swasthya Vihar, Priyadarshini Vihar, Nirman Vihar, etc. Section B was reserved for Nagars: Laxmi Nagar, Shastri Nagar, Ganesh Nagar, Pandav Nagar, etc. I, though being in Section B, had developed friendship with Section…

AADHAAR PAN Judgment

Judgments, Law, Rights & Society June 11, 2017

AADHAAR PAN Judgment: A Legal Analysis in a Simple Way

AADHAAR PAN Judgment: Facts Supreme Court of India has recently delivered the AADHAAR PAN judgment on the validity of S. 139AA of Income Tax Act.  S. 139AA makes the following mandatory: Quoting of AADHAAR for filing income tax returns post July 1, 2017. Quoting of AADHAAR in any new application for allocation of PAN post July 1, 2017. AADHAAR-PAN linking post date to be announced by the central government. Furthermore,…

Kulbhushan Jadhav Case in ICJ

Law, Rights & Society May 17, 2017

Kulbhushan Jadhav Case in ICJ: Epic and Astonishing Error

Kulbhushan Jadhav Case in ICJ: Facts The order dt 18.05.2017 in Kulbhushan Jadhav case in ICJ were solely concerned with the provisional measures that India sought in its application filed before the ICJ. Provisional measures can be analogized to ad-interim relief in municipal courts. In the ICJ, India has claimed the main relief of annulment of death sentence passed against Kulbhushan Jadhav by Pakistan’s military court, and the provisional measure/interim…

Sukma Attack by Naxals

Politics & Governance April 27, 2017

Sukma Attack by Naxals: Simple Stupid Loss of Good Sleep

Sukma Attack by Naxals: Undisputed Fact In the context of the Sukma attack by naxals, it is an undisputed fact that certain areas in India are not under the control of the state, and it is trying hard to regain control of these areas. The area where this attack on CRPF personnel took place is also one such area in the Bastar region of India. For all practical purposes, naxals…

Demonetization in India

Politics & Governance November 25, 2016

Demonetization in India: Quick End in a Dead Modi

The Mayhem Demonetization in India has been carried out with such audacious arbitrariness and has been accepted by the people with such servile meekness that I am overwhelmed by the stupidity of men. This operation has brought in so much of darkness that it feels scary to even enlighten people anymore. Even now I am not sure how to start and end this post. The level of frustration is such…

Intelligence Agencies

Politics & Governance March 24, 2016

Intelligence Agencies and their Officers May Quickly Disappear for Good

Internal Intelligence Agencies Intelligence agencies are the biggest attack on humanity. If one were to read Dhar’s book “Open Secrets” on the working of Intelligence Bureau (IB), one of the internal intelligence agencies in India, one would learn that intelligence officers do what a common man can’t even imagine. And they don’t only work in “national interest”. The internal intelligence agencies more often work in the interest of politicians. Dhar…

Kashmir Dispute Resolution

Politics & Governance March 6, 2016

Kashmir Dispute: Good and Quick International Intervention Is Necessary

The Kashmir Dispute and Its Effects Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan has no resolution in sight. Ironically, the people of Kashmir have no affinity towards either of the two countries. POK (Pakistan occupied Kashmir) citizens are fighting Pakistan occupation, and IOK (India occupied Kashmir) citizens are fighting Indian occupation. Both the occupied lands, nevertheless, are excellent tourist destinations with an inherently warm culture — as can be gauged from…

Kanhaiya Kumar Bail

Law, Rights & Society, Judgments March 3, 2016

Kanhaiya Kumar Bail Order Is Poor and Guaranteed Inconsequential!

Misintrepretation of the Law of Sedition The only relevant portion in Kanhaiya Kumar bail order is paras 54 to 57. The order has completely misintrepreted the law of sedition. Even though Section 124A of IPC has been quoted, it has not been followed. There is no connection between anti-nationalism and disaffection against the government. What is punishable under the section is the preparatory actions of waging war against the state…