Category: Legal Articles

YOUTH AND HOMOSEXUALITY

AUTHOR- Kajal Mathur Co-Author- Vishakha Mahicha A SOCIETY BEYOND TABOOS While the relation between youth and sexuality has been a focus of cross-cultural research, the very specific question of homosexuality among youth has received less attention. Such inattention is hardly surprising given the nature of the infamous prejudices concerning homosexuality. Heterosexuality, since ancient times, is

DELHI HC ASKS AAP GOVERNMENT HOW IS DELHI READY TO DEAL WITH MAJOR EARTHQUAKES?

After experiencing minor trembling quakes in Delhi, HC asks AAP government and three corporations and other agencies about how are they prepared to deal with major earthquake? A division bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Rajnish Bhatnagar, directed the Delhi chief secretary, all the corporation commissioners, the NDMC chairman, Delhi Cantonment Board and the DDA’s

Unlawful Activities Prevention Act against Freedom of Speech and Expression

Author: Shubhi Singh Co-author: Aakash Sharma. INTRODUCTION Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, popularly known as UAPA is an Indian Law passed by the Parliament and received the assent of the President in 1967. The act aimed at effective prevention of unlawful activities associations in India. The cardinal objective of this act is to provide power in

VIRTUAL HEARING IN PANDEMIC CRISES

Author :- Mayank Suryan As the crises started due to the pandemic disease the novel coronavirus which has been identified as the public health emergency of international concern by world health organization. The outbreak of novel COVID-19 is the reason for the nationwide lockdown which was declared by the government. It is an unfathomable time

IS IT TIME TO REPEAL SECTION 124A IPC?

Author : Anushka Ukrani, Law Graduate from CLC (Delhi University) INTRODUCTION A few months back a school principle in Karnataka was arrested for an allegedly seditious school play protesting against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. And this is not an isolated incident. In the past few months a lot of people who had been protesting against

MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE IN UNPRECEDENTED TIMES (SECTION 188 IPC AND COVID-19)

Author – Sanighdha (University Institute of Legal Studies, Panjab University) “The  main  political  problem  is  how  to  prevent  police  power  from  becoming  tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.” – Ludwig Von Misses INTRODUCTION: Martin Luther King Jr. once famously remarked, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Criminal  justice 

E-contracts: functioning and challenges

Author : Simarpreet Saluja, Bharti Vidyapeeth, Pune Introduction: E contract is one of the vital instruments in today’s scenario for both consumer and the commerce. E-contracts are such instruments which helps for most of the E-commerce related issues to get sorted. With the help of the e-contracts most of the problems concerning to the consumers

FORMS OF SUPREMACY IN A CONSTITUTIONAL SETUP

Author – Aakash Sharma (Faculty of Law, University of Lucknow) Co-Author – Shatakshi Pathak (Delhi metropolitan Education, Noida, U.P.) INTRODUCTION Supremacy is derived from the Latin word “supremus” which means highest. It generally means the highest in authority or rank. Supremacy means the position in which one is more powerful or advanced than anyone else.