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“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” .... asked Juvenal, 2,000 years ago   Consider these facts:   · ..

It is unbelievable, for the people like us, that India challenges to be the top most countries in all the fields, but the time since Britishers left India, there was no Central authority that could have mitigate the risks arising out of the natural or man-made disasters. Today if people talk about China and Russia, their development, their nuclear capability and ..

THE CURRENT ECONOMIC SITUATION AND THE CHALLENGES   • Decisive vote for change represents the desire of the people to grow, free themselves from the curse of poverty and use the opportunity provided by the society. Country in no mood to suffer unemployment, inadequate basic amenities, lack of infrastructure and apathetic gover..

The First information Report is the most important document without which the police will not initiate an investigation. Criminal procedure code and police standing orders  mandate the police to register all FIR' s. However, cases of non-registration are extremely common. Indeed, it is one of the most widespread grievances of citizens, particularly ..

PROPERTY in law means anything you own and the basic means of ownership is, of all things, including the right to destroy. If one can destroy something, without causing harm to anyone else, then that, to our mind, is the supreme fact of ownership.   p class="MsoNormal" style="t..

For every thing there is a season. Capital punishment has been the subject of a strong debate in this election month ..At the out set, kudos to Supreme court  for assumptively  sorting out  the inconsistencies  that marked the death penalty jurisprudence and laid down a guide line to ensure  that the mercy petitio..

It is submitted that the recovery proceedings under section 19 of the Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and Financial Institutions Act, 1993 (hereinafter referred to as “DRT Act”) against the Guarantors are absolutely without jurisdiction. As per Black’s Law Dictionary, Ninth Edition, at page 1389, “recovery” means the regaining or rest..

DO I HAVE A RIGHT TO BE NOT MADE A MONKEY OF? Yes. You do...............   Last week, we asked if job-seekers, when sent off on smoke-and-mirror interviews, are entitled to judicial relief. M..

To register or not to register that is a question   Moneylife has been conducting sessions on how to draft a Will. The three sessions were not only well attended but the interactions were simply wonderful. If truth be told, we learnt more from the sessions than maybe some o..

Abstract:   The Supreme Court of India in a very recent case viz., Occupational Health & Safety Association v. Union of India & others, has exhibited its curative role of occupational diseases of the employees of Coal Fired Thermal Power Plants [CFTPPs]. The Apex C..

Late Syed Ahmad  – Victim false 498A – committed suicide Late Manoj  - Abused by wife, threatened of false 498A – committed suicide Late Nirmala– Daughter in law threatened of 49..

It is indeed pity that some political parties making noise about Government's reported directive to officials to give priority to Hindi language in social media even after more than six decades of independence. It revealed we even failed to adopt one Indian language as our official and social language in independent India. It is indeed therefore important to ..

Can society gather the wisdom to decide on a punishment as irrevocable as death?   In a previous issue, we carried an article on this page dealing with the death penalty. We had promised Moneylife readers that we would keep our ears to the ground for furthe..

No, it is not. A simple example will bring clarity. Suppose a thief enters your home at night. You hear him. So, you shut and lock the bedroom door, get out of the window, lock the front door from outside, and voila. The thief is trapped inside. Everybody praises you for catching the crook, for your presence of mind and, of course, your bravery..

This is a personal story.   Everyday, we used to park our old Rajdoot (1972 model) below the KC College, (Churchgate, Mumbai) at about 7 in the morning, to be duly collected at 11o’clock after payment to..