Musings on India, the law, and policy
Posted in Constitution, Court on Mar 24th, 2009
“In a rule of law society operating under a constitutional order, either deterrent or preemptive executive action against prohibited human conduct including terrorist acts must be pursued only within the matrix of legislatively spelt out substantive and procedural rules of engagement and sanction. The executive, whether political or the professional has no legitimate authority to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 18th, 2009
This may be considered as a show of solidarity and support for the ongoing strike at HNLU. ………………………………. From Revive HNLU The students here are on an indefinite strike demanding the resignation or removal of the Vice Chancellor. The decision to resort to strike was necessitated by the apathy shown to the student community by [...]
Posted in Terrorism on Mar 15th, 2009
The Indian Newspapers report (Sunday TOI, p. 12) of the Obama Administration in the United States of America now doing away with the phrase ‘enemy combatant’; a designation for terror suspects to justify their detention in Guantanamo Bay. After Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, the Military Commissions Act 2006 gave power to the Bush Administration to define an ‘unlawful enemy combatant’ [...]
Posted in Democracy on Mar 14th, 2009
Camus idea that dissent must never be confused be disloyalty may find new vigour with the events unfolding in Pakistan. President Zardari has applied Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in the country thus giving a free hand to the security officials to make arrests of those protesting against the state of that [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 13th, 2009
The age- bar at law schools. A PIL has been filed in the Bombay High Court challenging the Bar Council of India Rule (Rule 28) that states that no person shall be admitted to a 5 year LLB course if he or she is above the age of 20 and to a 3 year LLB [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 2nd, 2009
In a follow up to the post below, Pathik contacted Mr. Gopal Sankaranarayanan, the lawyer who drafted the petition who graciously sent us a copy and permitted us to put it up on the blog. The petition is now available here. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditTweet thisSubscribe to this postPrint for laterTell [...]