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It is most shocking and most hurting to see that this so-called Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 displays so much of extraordinary, senseless and unwarranted leniency in sentencing towards those corrupt who siphon off crores and crores of rupees and yet are not punished with mandatory death sentence. As if this is not enough, those corrupt are not even punished with..

Let me begin at the very beginning by pointing out that the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), which has filed an FIR against a journalist who exposed a breach in its Aadhaar database denied that it was trying to gag the media or whistleblowers. After facing a widespread criticism for filing a criminal complaint naming a journalist – Rachna Khai..

The term evidence is a bit ambiguous one. It refers to what is adduced by a party in a court proceeding as a means of establishing a fact or its truth. Evidence essentially refers to those items or things that make the truth of a disputed matter quite apparent to a court. Indian Evidence Act p styl..

The judicial service is considered as one of the supremely respected and honorable portfolios that one holds. The judges are entrusted with the duty of administering justice. It clearly establishes the saying “with power comes responsibility”. One of the long plagued problem of the Indian judiciary is the undue delay in justice on an avalanche of pending c..

Can you negotiate a joint venture agreement? Are you able to draft a watertight service level agreement? Do you feel at ease drafting comprehensive shareholders agreement?  If your answer to any of these..

The witness is a prime source of evidence in judicial proceedings. A witness is a person who gives testimony or evidence before any judicial institution. A child witness is the one who at the time of giving testimony is below the age of eighteen years. The law in India recognizes that the child is a competent witness. A witness is said to be competent..

To begin with, in a big reprieve for the former Chief Minister of Maharashtra and Congress leader Ashok Chavan who was the Chief Minister between December 2008 and November 2010 and currently the President of the Maharashtra unit of the Congress in the Adarsh housing society case, the Bombay High Court has on December 22, 2017 set aside the sanction granted by the M..

To begin with, a lot of fire and storm has been kicked by the proposed Financial Resolution and Deposit Insurance (FRDI) Bill even before it has been passed by Parliament leave alone being assented by President. There is a widespread perception that if a bank fails everyone will have to sacrifice and this includes the depositors and the part of the money which is not ..

The Union Minister of State for Ministry of Law, Justice and Corporate Affairs Shri P.P. Chaudhary: Independent Directors are watch persons of Corporate entities; Capacity development of Independent Directors is very essential since they play a crucial advisory role to ensure integrity and professional conduct in companies; ..

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its potential impact on the legal profession has been the most talked about topic in the year gone by. Everyone from a layman to people in legal industry have questions concerning whether “AI will replace lawyers” to “Is it sensible enough to attend a law school with the rise of AI”.  p style="text-..

Section 27: Agreement in restraint of trade void. Every agreement by which one is restrained from exercising a lawful profession, trade or business of any kind is to that extent void. Exception 1: saving of agreement not to carry on the business of which goodwill is sold. one who sells the goodwill..

To begin with, 21 December is a date which I can never forget in my life because it was on this black day in 2014 that Dr OP Sharma who is the former President of Meerut Bar and who is held in highest esteem here lost his only son - Tarun Sharma who also was a budding advocate to bullets and that too right in front of his house! He was about to be engaged just after a..

Let me begin at the very beginning by pointing out straightaway that in a verdict which grabbed the news headlines of all news channels as well as newspapers and magazines, a Special CBI court on December 21, 2017 acquitted all the accused, including former Telecom Minister AA Raja and DMK MP Kanimozhi and telecom company owners in the infamous 2G scam. The judgment a..

Coming straight to the nub of the crucial matter, let me begin at the very beginning by first and foremost pointing out that it has been very rightly demanded by some lawyers, activists and leaders in a letter written to the Bar Council of India (BCI) that those lawyers who become MPs and MLAs should be stopped from practising. The main ground on which they are dema..

Let me start running my pen by expressing my unstinted support to the laudable stand taken by the Supreme Court recently when it agreed on December 8, 2017 to examine the Constitutional validity of a 157-year-old gender discriminatory provision in the Indian Penal Code which punishes a man alone for adultery for consensual sexual relations with another man's wife! W..