After 60 years of Independence and many international magazine covers later, the story of India is not all hope and glitter. In its wide dark spaces, which threaten to get bigger and darker, discrimination and inequity fester. In a Public Interest litigation filed by the
Bhopal Gas leak Disaster, a disaster which in true sense can never be compensated. Children, adults, and animals no one was spared. It was the early morning of December 3, 1984 a Union Carbide pesticide producing plant leaked a highly toxic cloud of methyl isocyanate
After its decision that the disputes related to the telecom industry shall be entertained by the consumer forum, the Supreme Court has passed yet another judgment whereby complaints and grievances of students against educational boards shall not be heard before the Consumer Forum. Therefore, students can
Witnesses are the eyes and ears of Justice’Bentham remarked. But what happens whenthese witnesses turn hostile or retract fromtheir statement. ‘Hostile Witness’ which is more than just a conceptin the Indian Criminal Justice has again come back to picture with yet another case i.e. the
The wedding season again brings to fore the question of using farm houses to organize public functions in full-fledged, flouting the master plan of 2001. The Delhi High Court had expressly forbidden any such activities vide its order on July 6 which has totally gone
Recently, the Government opened up its much awaited Judges Inquiry Bill for scrutiny and for suggestions of everyone. The bill drafted for inquiring the acts of “misbehavior’’ and “incapacity’’ of judges of the Supreme Court and High Court, initially faced lot of opposition and reservations