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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..

At the time of exit to the Indian arm of the Ibibo group, Redbus had an enterprise valuation of around Rs. 600 crores (USD 125 million). Do you know what was the shareholding of its two founders Phanindra Sama and Charan Padmaraju? Less than 15 percent.   Do you know why?..

Let’s see how the law applies to neighbourly relations. The biblical injunction of ‘Love Thy Neighbour’ is, unfortunately, not a common occurrence. Probably, because familiarity often breeds contempt. Two neighbours, Mr 1 and Mr 2, could not see eye to eye. No talk. No visits. Now, while one neighbour, Mr 1 is away his house catches fire. What i..

There is a whole lot of commercial lingo or jargon surrounding investment documentation, and much of it finds its way into legal agreements. Terms like ‘drag’, ‘tag’, ‘liquidation preference’, ‘ROFO / ROFR’, ‘anti-dilution’, ‘put options’ and ‘ratchets’ are extremely common – ..

We believe that Indians are next to none in caliber. Individually, Indians are easily discerning in their intelligence which made Obama caution his countrymen to be wary of Indians and Chinese who are cornering most of higher education seats. But collective conduct of Indians reveals a contrast which is reflected in our bottom ..