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The Founding Fathers of our Constitution had a gargantuan task of drafting what turned out to be the most extensive written Constitution in the world. When the Constituent assembly was handed over this huge responsibility - I wonder what would have taken the most time; the most brainstorming by the Drafting committee and most of all, the Chairman, the Great Dr.B...

The perils of delay in most judicial systems   English is a funny language. The superlative for late, if such a word existed, would mean the newest, most recent. Semantics aside, we take on a matter that excites a lot of passion in court proceedings. The matter of time. How late is late? p..

Jasleen Kaur, a 20 year old student of Delhi’s premier college, recently posted on Facebook that Sarvjeet Singh, a young motorbike riding boy, made lewd and sexually obscene comments to her. She also alleged that when she retaliated he challenged her to take whatever actions she pleases. By both accounts the two had an unpleasant verbal exchange but the girl&..

The Central Government is contemplating to ban all web sites displaying pornography contents. A statute is getting ready in this regard. The ban has already been implemented in all the Gulf countries and in some other Islamic countries as well. A section of media always cries ‘foul’ in the name of protectors of rights against moral policing. p s..

Igatpuri nestles on the top of Thal Ghat, on the way from Mumbai to Nashik. Picturesque place, it has a “Forest”. Many gardens are larger. Yet, it is something, for the view of the valley below is breath-taking. At the entrance of the  forest is a poster showing a man-eater. None has seen a live one in decades, or so the keeper says, but the..

A path-breaking judgement of Bombay Court can help all litigants on unending cases where they do not know if the opposite party is dead or alive   Prof Kelwadi is an advocate. He teaches law. A good friend, he was the advocate mentioned in an earli..

One of the most highlighted provisions introduced by the new Companies Act, 2013 of India is the mandatory inclusion of at least one woman director to the board of every prescribed class of company in India. It is being applauded by one and all as an innitiative to empower women enabling them to contribute to nation building on a better platform. It is pertinent ..

An obnoxious rule is corrected by a new law that should have come ages ago   ‘Good Samaritan’ is a biblical term. It has crept into common use and, for many, it means a person who helps others. But then, is a father, helping his child, a good Samaritan? Is ..

The country's first bachelor President, Honorable late Mr. APJ Abdul KALAM’S VISION FOR THE SAFETY AND SECURITY OF INDIAN RAILWAY PASSENGERS:   It is worth to remember HIM as India’s ‘Father of Atomic Energy ‘ who always tendered his life and mostly sp..

CONTRACT OF GUARANTEE - SCHEME OF CONTRACT ACT,1872   1(a) It is submitted that Sections 133, 134, 135, 139, 140,141 and 145 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872 provide as follows.   p style="text-..

An old poem and the law   At school, we were taught a poem where a loose nail in a horse-shoe resulted in losing a kingdom. There is also a story of our ex-finance minister arguing in the Supreme Court over the meaning of a comma, or the lack thereof, in the inte..

For quite some time now, RBI Governor has been openly cribbing about commercial banks not passing on the benefits of interest rate cuts announced by him, to their customers. Only yesterday (4-8-15), he mentioned that average rate cuts passed on by commercial banks was just 0.3% as against 0.75% rate cuts by him in monetary policy. On an earlier occasion, he refused..

Law Making under General Jurisprudence   There are many sources through which law comes into existence. Important sources of law under the study of jurisprudence are: custom, precedent and legislation.  Other sources include divine right, natural rights, hum..

In addition to politicians and intelligentsia Varun Gandhi a BJP parliamentarian astounded by giving a statement that in India poor persons are victims of death sentence and gallows are not allowed to  reach to  trap the wealthy persons. Any how political aspirations laid them away from the realities.    ..

Real Estate is not regulated till recently. Every transaction process differ from other and every real estate development process is different from other. Each project has unique documentation and there is no specific set of legal title document which purchaser can vouch or investigate before purchasing. Government of India had mooted Model Real Estate Regulatory A..