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Sukriti Vats (IndiaSpend) 15 July 2024
In January this year Darangi Bhera Sarubhai, a resident of Khedasan village in Gujarat’s Sabarkantha district, received a notice informing him that his Individual Forest Rights (IFR) claim had been rejected.   The 70-year-old was one of 30 individuals from Khedasan, a Schedule V village,...

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The British have left us some ‘gifts’, including one that determines who runs our country, and thereby rules our lives – our election system.   This system follows the 'first past the post' principle, i.e., the winner is the one with the highest number of votes. Just one vote more than the...

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There are right to information (RTI) applicants who invoke the sunshine law for the sake of getting information but there are those who use the information to fight for a social cause until it reaches the logical end.   In the past two weeks, the Bombay High Court (HC) ordered the divisional...

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Abhimanyu Hazarika (Bar  and   Bench) 09 July 2024
Bail conditions enabling investigating agencies to constantly track the whereabouts of an accused are arbitrary and unlawful, the Supreme Court held on Monday (Frank Vitus v. Narcotics Control Bureau and Ors).   A Bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan held so in a judgment where it...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 July 2024
The Supreme Court has initiated a suo moto writ petition over large sums of money lying deposited in motor accident claims tribunals (MACT) and labour courts without being given to the beneficiaries, says a report.   According to a report from LiveLaw, a bench of justice Abhay Oka and justice...

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Anadi Tewari (Bar  and   Bench) 04 July 2024
The Allahabad High Court expressed its shock at the treatment meted out to an elderly couple by their son and daughter-in-law.   A Bench of Justices Saumitra Dayal Singh and Donadi Ramesh directed the formation of a committee after finding out that the senior citizens were severely...

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Aishwarya Tripathi (IndiaSpend) 28 June 2024
Savita Devi associates rain with death.   Last September, within a span of 10 days, the 30-year-old farmer and her husband Raju (he uses one name) belonging to the Baiga community, a scheduled tribe, lost five of their seven children to malaria as the southwest monsoons pounded their village,...

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Common Dreams 26 June 2024
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday reached a deal with the U.S. government, agreeing to plead guilty to one felony related to the disclosure of national security information in exchange for his release from Belmarsh Prison in the United Kingdom.    A related document was filed in...

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Aishwarya Tripathi (IndiaSpend) 26 June 2024
Jab machhar sab khoon pi lela, jab beemari ho jala, tab dawai chidki ka baa? [What is the use of spraying insecticide after the mosquitoes are done feeding on our blood and giving us the disease?].” Eighteen-year-old Seeta Devi’s voice cuts through the heat, as she talks from the doorway of her...

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Nipun Saxena (The Leaflet) 25 June 2024
In the second part of this series, Nipun Saxena explains the fine art of purloining the suraksha of nagriks through a law labelled to the contrary.   —   In Part I of the trilogy, I dealt with the unholy ghost and examined the various provisions of the newly enacted Bharatiya Nagarik...

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Nipun Saxena (The Leaflet) 24 June 2024
Of the new trinity that will lord over India’s criminal law landscape, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, replacing the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, has received the least attention, because procedure is an unholy ‘ghost’ not necessarily discernible to the layman. In the first part of...

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It is too early to judge, but the salutary impact of the people’s election verdict is perhaps evident from the fact that we have moved from Modi Sarkar 3 or Modi 3.0 to NDA 3.0, despite a pliant media’s slow recognition of this change.    Prime minister (PM) Narendra Modi, after being...

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Moneylife Digital Team 14 June 2024
The Bombay High Court is set to deliberate on a pivotal Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by Shobha Panchmukh, a distinguished child rights activist, aimed at catalysing comprehensive suicide prevention measures within educational institutions across Maharashtra. The PIL, slated to be...

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I was told that at a ‘meet the press’ session, Dr Verghese Kurien, founder of the milk revolution in India – was asked a delicate question by one of the journalists. “What would you say are the three key elements that have made you so successful, Mr Kurien?” After a short pause, he replied,...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 12 June 2024
The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Delhi government to file a report on the steps taken to tackle "water tanker mafias" who appeared to be diverting water supply meant to tackle the ongoing water crisis in Delhi.   A Vacation Bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and Prasanna B Varale...

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Gursimran Kaur Bakshi (The Leaflet) 12 June 2024
The three new criminal laws Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (criminal laws), set to replace the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 and the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 respectively, are due to come into...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 June 2024
Urging an independent and thorough investigation of the Gharkopar hoarding collapse case, several non-government organisations (NGOs) and prominent citizens from Mumbai have demanded the immediate removal of all illegal and unstable hoardings, signboards and electric signages in the Mumbai...

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Prachi Salve (IndiaSpend) 07 June 2024
IndiaSpend looked at 35 parliamentary questions on health, education, labour, environment, agriculture, finance, gender and law and justice, between 2015 and 2023, for which the government responded that they had no data. The most common reason, in 17 of the 35 questions, for not providing data...

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Indian elections have a major lacuna.   Usually, about 2/3rd of the eligible voters actually vote. If a party gets about 45% + of these votes, it wins a majority.  Therefore, votes from just 30% of the total electorate are enough to win an election.    Is this really a 'popular'...

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Prachi Salve, Nileena Suresh (IndiaSpend) 06 June 2024
The Women’s Reservation Bill allocates 33% of all seats in the Lok Sabha and state legislatures for women. However, only 13% of the Members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the 18th Lok Sabha are women. Of 543 elected MPs, 73 are women, marking a decrease from the 78 women elected to the 17th Lok...

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