“I am glad, Arghya Sengupta and Ritwika Sharma have decided to publish a book dealing with appointment of Judges to Supreme Court of India. From time immemorial, mankind desired to have wise and humane Judges with the wisdom to discriminate between truth and falsehood. The legends of King Solomon and Dharmaraja and the like are […]
Read more "Appointment of Justice"A. “Albert Einstein spoke of change when he said, ‘world as we have created is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking’.” – Hon’ble Chief Justice of India, Hon’ble Justice T.S. Thakur, Board of Control for Cricket v. Cricket Association of Bihar, (2016) 8 SCC 535. B. “We would like […]
Read more "Albert, Albert Einstein"Greenstone Lobo, Howzzat?, (Readomania, 2019) is an interesting read. It is not enough to state, Mr. Lobo, over time, has predicted several times correctly. He has been writing a regular column on sports astrology, ‘Octozone’, in a popular Indian daily, DNA, since 2008. He has also been a columnist for Anandabazar Patrika, Times of India, Mumbai Mirror, Telegraph, Life Positive […]
Read more "Sports and Astrology"Games played just for fun can also be played for money. Lawyers and Non-Lawyers paid ample respect and just respect to a Game developed on Indian Premier League [IPL]. An esteemed Eashan Ghosh calculated accuracy of probabilistic predictions. Mr. Ghosh, phenomenal in his Intellectual Property Law expertise, is a fair man. ‘Ramiz Baba Challenge’ Rules ‘Ramiz […]
Read more "Gambling in Cricket I"Sacred Games, Season 1 (2018, dir. Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwane) was showcased by Netflix in June, 2018. Writ Petition (Civil) No. 7123 of 2018 was filed before Delhi High Court against Sacred Games soon after. One word used in Episode 4 [‘Brahmahatya‘] deserved correction. It remains unchanged. 09.04.2019 – Writ Petition (Civil) No. 7123 of […]
Read more "Sacred Games"Religion is complex; difficult to comprehend; often open to interpretation. Which religion considers death to be a penalty and which religion considers death to be an award? It can be reasonably concluded Criminal Law of India considers death to be a punishment. In recent times, there have been several Judgments of the Supreme Court of […]
Read more "In Re: Death Penalty"Books on Constitutional Law are on Judges, Lawyers, occasionally on Politicians. Judges are central actors. The central actor in Rohit De, A People’s Constitution, (Princeton University Press, 2018) is the citizen litigant; private interests assumes public significance. We rarely meet those who have, at least, one positive act to share on Former Hon’ble Chief Justice […]
Read more "The Case of the Honest Prostitute"The trouble with Aster was that he had no sense of proportion. But he was a good husband to Tria and an excellent father to his only daughter Rose. But Tria was at the end of her patience with her husband’s lack of practical sense. He had no ordinary common sense. He never invited his […]
Read more "Cyanide"Mr. Navtej Sarna’s Son is talented. I have had the opportunity to witness him in college. Mr. Navtej Sarna is an ‘Indian Author-Columnist, Diplomat, Indian Ambassador to the United States’. His son, Satyajit, recently published a Book of Poetry: “The Profane”. Here are a few of my favorite four lines: “But, if you believe you […]
Read more "The Profane"While stating, ‘genesis’ of creamy layer principle is to be found in State of Kerala v. N.M. Thomas, (1976) 2 SCC 310 Hon’ble Justice R.F. Nariman quoted a few words of Hon’ble Justice Krishna Iyer in Jarnail Singh v. Lachhmi Narain Gupta, [Special Leave Petition (Civil) No. 30621 of 2011]. Of course, Ray CJ had […]
Read more "The Revival of Ray VI"“In legal parlance, ‘consortium’ is a compendious term which encompasses ‘spousal consortium’, ‘parental consortium’ and ‘filial consortium’. The right to consortium would include company, care, help, comfort, guidance, solace and affection of deceased. With respect to a spouse, it would include sexual relations with deceased spouse; parental consortium is granted upon premature death of a […]
Read more "Consortium I"2018. A magazine has published a disastrous story on the Chief Justice of India. Lawyers are keen to exercise their freedom of speech, criticizing that CJI. 180K Followers, Former President, Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee. 275 Followers, Lawyer. 266 Followers, Lawyer. 1.15M Followers, Public Interest Lawyer and Activist. 11.9K Followers. 23.6K Followers, Writer. 3194 Followers, Lawyer. […]
Read more "Dipak Misra, Chief Justice of India II"“Haynes was a role model of mine. He and Greenidge were a pair that would take apart any bowling attack in the world. From the start of the day’s play I had kept a close watch on him. He was sitting in the Sussex dressing room, absorbed in the match. I worried that he might […]
Read more "The Haynes Discourse"Witnessing Padmaavat unfold on screen, on its first day of release, was unique, especially since your smart phone kept reminding you of persistent violence. The casual viewer may have even ignored a woman threatening to immolate herself or even a policemen who stood guard, but the skeptic whispered if a riot broke out… on which […]
Read more "The Last Word on Padmaavat"Les Clefs d’Or [‘lay clay door’, meaning ‘keys of gold’] is an International Network of Concierges expected to make ‘impossible requests of a guest possible, no matter how strange’. They have ‘sources of inside information, intelligence and communication’. Oberoi, Mumbai in 1986 was first to have a Member of Les Clefs d’Or. Sunny Prasher, Member […]
Read more "Notorious Hotel Rooms: The Case of The Sealed Suite"Criminal cases based on circumstantial evidence can be resolved in several ways in a work of fiction. Judges do not have such liberty. It would be in fitness of things to assume, there is only one right way for them to interpret ‘circumstances’. Two lovers, in love forever, alone in a stranger’s house, scribbled their […]
Read more "The Baazigar Suicide Letter"A citation of questionable scientific standard. _____ In a child custody dispute in Suburbs of Pittsburgh, 3 teenage boys begged a Family Court Judge not to force continued visits to their father because, they said, he was physically abusive towards them. Judge relied on an Expert Witness, retained by the father, a Columbia University Professor […]
Read more "The Disputed Reality of Parental Alienation Syndrome"On March 05, 2014 Hon’ble Justice T.S Thakur, not yet CJI, observed, “cynical Chalta Hai Attitude… more often than not costs society dearly in man-made tragedies” [(2014) 6 SCC 173]. The price of Sushil Ansal’s ‘Chalta Hai Attitude’ was pegged at Rs. 30 Crores [(2015) 10 SCC 359]. That is merely 18 Crores more than what a […]
Read more "The Advanced Age of Sushil Ansal"Throughout the history of the use of the term in Latin, ‘prima facie’ meant only the most cursory, initial impression. It retained that meaning upon its adoption into colloquial English. The term ‘prima facie’ is used in the law both as an adjective and as an adverb. Common Law Courts which developed the judicial meaning […]
Read more "Prima Facie"The Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials is not legally binding for Member States, but rather seeks to further clarify aspects of the Code of Conduct for Law Enforcement Officials and provide guidelines it encourages States to adopt and implement. __________ On 15.06.2004, vide C.R. No. 8/2004 of […]
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