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Thec above Hindu editorial was published on 4 th September 2018 in the Hindu. The Law Commission’s advice to end discrimination in personal laws is persuasive The Law Commission’s consultation paper on reform of family laws is a progressive document that avoids the advocacy of a uniform civil code merely for the sake of uniformity. […]
Read More Beyond UniformityArab Spring Tunisia Unrest – VOA – Tunis 14 Jan 2011 (2).jpg Protesters in Tunisia (January 2011) Date 17 December 2010 – December 2012 Location North Africa, Middle East (i.e. MENA or “Arab world”) Caused by Authoritarianism Dictatorship Demographic structural factors 2000s energy crisis Political corruption Human rights violations Unemployment Inflation Kleptocracy Poverty Sectarianism Self-immolation […]
Read More Syrian Crisis• The will to die — on ‘living wills’ October 12, 2017 00:02 IST Updated: October 12, 2017 00:04 IST Share Advance directives on withdrawal of life support must come with robust safeguards The debate on allowing euthanasia as a means to protect the dignity of patients in a vegetative state has crystallised into a […]
Read More Recognition of Right to Living Will by Terminally ill patients by the Supreme CourtHadia’s case Study-Marriage between two consenting Adults is legally valid-News Item published In TOI dated09/03/2018
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Keep Smiling! Daughters born before 2005 have right in their fathers’ property, says Supreme Court Posted on February 16, 2018 by ushakapoor310 Iindian women, ancestral rights, ancestral property, daughters ancestral property, fathers property, supreme court, hindu succession act 2005 In a ruling that will ensure equality between men and women, the Supreme Court on Friday […]
Read More Daughters born before 2005 have right in their fathers’ property, says Supreme Court//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({ google_ad_client: “ca-pub-5995494798437806”, enable_page_level_ads: true }); Representative photogapherNEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has dismissed a man’s petition seeking damages from his estranged wife for undergoing abortion without his consent, and ruled that an adult woman had an unimpeachable right to give birth or terminate pregnancy.
Read More Woman has a right to abort-Says SC-news item published in TOI dated 28-10-2017//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({ google_ad_client: “ca-pub-5995494798437806”, enable_page_level_ads: true }); Dhananjay Matra| TNN | Updated: Oct 28, 2017, 03:05 IST Representative photograph NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has dismissed a man’s petition seeking damages from his estranged wife for undergoing abortion without his consent, and ruled that an adult woman had an unimpeachable right […]
Read More Minor Survivors deposition is not a must for rape conviction-Says SC-Published in TOI dated29-10-2017//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({ google_ad_client: “ca-pub-5995494798437806”, enable_page_level_ads: true }); Kashmir is a Muslim majority state. So, one might simplistically argue that India should vacate the place and give it away to Pakistan. But, it is not so simple.
Read More Critical Analysis of J& K Imbroglio//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({ google_ad_client: “ca-pub-5995494798437806”, enable_page_level_ads: true }); According to Mariam Webster Dictionary definition of love IS: Definition of love 1 a (1) :strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties maternal love for a child (2) :attraction based on sexual desire :affection and tenderness felt by […]
Read More My Opinion On Love//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({ google_ad_client: “ca-pub-5995494798437806”, enable_page_level_ads: true }); Amit Anand Choudhary | TNN | Updated: Sep 1, 2017, 08:24 IST Highlights • The Indian Penal Code (IPC) protects any man having sexual intercourse with his minor wife above 15 years of age, the Supreme Court said. The SC’s observations came in a […]
Read More Can Use Child Rape Law In Teen Marriages- SC-news item published TOI on 1st Sep 2017//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({ google_ad_client: “ca-pub-5995494798437806”, enable_page_level_ads: true }); BACKGROUNDSocio-cultural scenario: In the traditional Indian system elderly were respected and they had a great decision making power in the family . Children felt duty bound to serve and respect the elderly and to contribute to the family resources.
Read More Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act 2007//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({ google_ad_client: “ca-pub-5995494798437806”, enable_page_level_ads: true }); Surrogacy is a method or agreement whereby a woman agrees to carry a pregnancy for another person or persons, who will become the newborn child’s parent(s) after birth. Intended parents may seek a surrogacy arrangement when either pregnancy is medically impossible, pregnancy risks present […]
Read More Legal And Ethical Issues Surrounding Surrogacy//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({ google_ad_client: “ca-pub-5995494798437806”, enable_page_level_ads: true }); March 20, 2017, 2:08 am IST TOI Edit in TOI Editorials | Edit Page, India, politics | TOI In its choice of Trivendra Singh Rawat as Uttarakhand’s chief minister, BJP has by all accounts, opted for a steady hand. The same cannot be said, […]
Read More Radical turn: When the saints go marching in – Yogi Adityanath is anointed UP CM//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({ google_ad_client: “ca-pub-5995494798437806”, enable_page_level_ads: true }); LLB upper age limit plea stayed by Supreme Court Senior advocate Sanjay Hegde, appearing for the petitioners, said the new stipulation violates the fundamental rights of aspiring law students.
Read More News Item on LLB upper age limit plea stayed by Supreme Court Published in Indian Expresss//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({ google_ad_client: “ca-pub-5995494798437806”, enable_page_level_ads: true }); Lord Mansfield considered to be the founder of quasicontractual obligations Which in Indian contract Act have been put under certain relations resembling those3 created by contract. According to him the basis of these opbligations is that l;aw as well as justice should try to […]
Read More Quasi Contracts or Certain Relations Resembling Those Created by Contract//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({ google_ad_client: “ca-pub-5995494798437806”, enable_page_level_ads: true }); Misplaced activism: Ban on jallikattu is neither desirable nor enforceable, it must go January 20, 2017, 2:00 am IST TOI Edit in TOI Editorials | Chennai, Edit Page, India | TOI The growing protests against the ban on the bull-taming sport of jallikattu in […]
Read More My Opinion On Jallikattu in Tamil Nadu//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({ google_ad_client: “ca-pub-5995494798437806”, enable_page_level_ads: true }); Equality Comes First: Calling triple talaq unconstitutional, Allahabad high court boosts women’s rights December 9, 2016, 2:00 am IST TOI Edit in TOI Editorials | Edit Page, India | TOI In a boost to the case against triple talaq, the Allahabad high court has […]
Read More -Equality Comes First: Calling triple talaq unconstitutional, Allahabad high court boosts women’s rights//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({ google_ad_client: “ca-pub-5995494798437806”, enable_page_level_ads: true }); October 29, 2016, 2:00 am IST TOI Edit in TOI Editorials | Edit Page, Humour, India | TOI As befits the world’s most populous and ebullient democracy, India has long given full rein to citizens’ right to freedom of what might be called […]
Read More If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Break It: The PDPP Act could have unexpected consequences for the sarkar//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({ google_ad_client: “ca-pub-5995494798437806”, enable_page_level_ads: true }); 1)Independent Corporate Existence: It I s distinct legal personality existing independent to its members. Men who man the company may go and come, but the company remains forever. Section 34 provides that once certificate of incorporation
Read More Lifting The Corporate Veil//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({ google_ad_client: “ca-pub-5995494798437806”, enable_page_level_ads: true }); Dhananjay Mahapatra | TNN | Jun 17, 2016, 02.03 AM IST NEW DELHI: In a significant judgment that expands the boundaries of the right to self-defence, the Supreme Court has ruled that a person would be exonerated of assault charges reasonable apprehension right in […]
Read More The Supreme Court Expands the Scope of Right to Self DefenseDear Indians, I’ve added a new Admin page to my website. Kindly go through it and send legal queries to the email id mentioned therein.
Read More New Admin Page-reg-//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({ google_ad_client: “ca-pub-5995494798437806”, enable_page_level_ads: true }); Spirituality in normal parlance means not mundane or this worldly activities but other worldly activities and depends one acquiring merits on the basis of his good deeds, nobility, humanity, Piety etc and sin doing all wretched things like Criminal things like Stealing, raping and […]
Read More My Opinion On Spirituality//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({ google_ad_client: “ca-pub-5995494798437806”, enable_page_level_ads: true }); INTRODUCTION: Unless two or more persons agree on the same thing in the same sense with respect to a contract especially sale and purchase the parties are said to enter into a contract with consent. If the contract is vitiated by Coercion, Undue influence, […]
Read More The Doctrine of Consent Under the Indian Contract Act//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({ google_ad_client: “ca-pub-5995494798437806”, enable_page_level_ads: true }); Recently, The Hindu In this editorial titled ‘On going beyond ‘Bommai’ dated 23-04-2016 opined as follows. The Uttarakhand High Court’s verdict declaring the imposition of President’s Rule in the State as unconstitutional was expected, but the quick stay on its operation granted by the […]
Read More “My Opinion on the Hindu’s editorial “On going beyond Bommai”://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({ google_ad_client: “ca-pub-5995494798437806”, enable_page_level_ads: true }); According to section 2(d) When at the desire of the promisor the promise or any other person has done or abstained from doing, does or abstains from doing, or promises to do or abstain from doing something such act or abstinence or promise is […]
Read More The Doctrine of Consideration Under Indian Contract Act//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({ google_ad_client: “ca-pub-5995494798437806”, enable_page_level_ads: true }); Introduction: Although, Corporate Social Responsibility concept is not new in India, in 2013, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India has recently notified the Section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013 along with Companies (Corporate Social Responsibility Policy) Rules, 2014 “hereinafter CSR Rules”
Read More “Corporate Social Responsibility”//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({ google_ad_client: “ca-pub-5995494798437806”, enable_page_level_ads: true }); United Nations exists not as a static memorial to the aspirations of an earlier age but as a work in progress – imperfect as all human endeavors must be but capable of adaptation and improvement..
Read More “Relevance of United Nations today”Ranjith Marar, counsel for intervenor, briefing the media following the Constitution Bench pronouncing the verdict on seven of Rajiv Gandhi killers, in New Delhi on Wednesday. – Photo: V. Sudershan” src=”http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02642/TH03_RAJIV_LAYWERS_2642907e.jpg” alt=”Ranjith Marar, counsel for intervenor, briefing the media following the Constitution Bench pronouncing the verdict on seven of Rajiv Gandhi killers, in New Delhi […]
Read More My Opinion on “Reforming Criminals has not Worked”The Hindu in it’s editorial dated 2 December 2015 says as follows: The observation by the Supreme Court that political leaders should not take criticism as a personal insult highlights a particular kind of intolerance
Read More My Opinion On “Time to abolish Criminal Defamation”It is heartening to note that the Honorable Supreme Court had lifted the Ban on dancing girls in various liquor bars, pubs and hotels and restaurants in
Read More My Opinion On The recent Supreme Court Stay of Ban on Dance Bars in MaharashtraIt is disheartening and shocking to note that an irate and frenzied mob belonging to opposite Hindu community went berserk over rumors of
Read More “My Opinion On Dadri Lynching”This is the second defeat in Parliamentary General Elections this year for the dictatorial former President , who’s bid to become Prime Minister miserably failed and
Read More My Comment On Recent General Elections in Sri LankaAccording to Dictionary.com, “A living arrangement in which an unmarried couple lives together in a long-term
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Read More “How to Fight Depression?”Just 3 days ago, according to News reports (AFP source) Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas leaders entered into a permanent long duration truce to
Read More “Would Statehood For Palestine Be A Reality in the Near Future?”According the an Ancient Indian adage: “Laugh! The whole world laughs with you. Weep! You’d weep alone” The Biochemistry of Laugh has immense health benefits. It has Mood elevator neurotransmitters
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Read More FDI in Muti Brand Retail in India“As you sow- so you reap”. Whatever-your adverse circumstances -we all humans maybe facing- there is always hope and there would be hope.
Read More Implant The Seed of Hope !Recently, The Current Head of Myanmar, Mr.Thein Sein, made a welcome statement in an interview with BBC that he would accept Aung San Suu Kyi as the next President of Myanmar, if he is democratically elected. I’d assert that people of Myanmar would love to democratically elect her
Read More IS AUNG SAN SUU KYI, THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF MAYANMAAR?According to Section 2(b) of the Indian Succession act, 1925 ‘Will’ means the legal disposal of the intention of the testator with respect to his property which he desires to be carried in to effect after his death.Essential Elements Of A Will:
Read More WILLS, PROBATE AND LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATIONAccording to BR. Ambedkar “The Comptroller and Auditor General of India shall be the most important officer under the Constitution of India. Fair he is to be the guardian of the public Purse and it is his duty to see that
Read More CRITIQUE ON THE POWERS OF COMPTROLLER AND AUDITOR GENERAL UNDER THE INDIAN CONSTITUTIONLand Acquisition Act 1894 and Criticism in relation to it: It has been criticized by groups that view the act as weak and ineffective, and by groups that view the act as draconian. People who feel that
Read More LAND ACQUISITION AND ADEQUATE COMPENSATION IN INDIAIt is since India is a Multi religious and Multilingual country, its property laws are varied from one religion to another religion. and from one region to another region.But Hindu Succession Act 1956 as amended by 2005 Act has done away with the above differences as far as Hindu Law is concerned and made the […]
Read More PROPERTY LAWS OF INDIAN WOMENMajority of Indian Men, who are in a patriarchal milieu think and consider that the women- especially their wives- are mere chattels and have no dignity or mind of her own. They think they have an entrenched patriarchal right to bash their wives left right and centre.
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