Month: January 2015
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Domestic Violence against Women: The Indian Scenario
By Sanya Darakhshan Kishwar, Central University of Bihar, Gaya. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — WHAT THE TERM ACTUALLY MEANS “Domestic violence and emotional abuse are behaviours used by one person in a relationship to control the other. partners may be married or not married ;heterosexual, gay or lesbian; living together or separated or dating.” [i]
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Racial Crimes in India: An Analysis of Law
By Archit Gupta, National Law Institute University, Bhopal. Our Constitution provides for equality before law and prohibits discrimination on the grounds of religion, race, caste, sex, and place of birth or any of them. Though these provisions are part of Fundamental Rights, it is said reality that a section of citizens have to face systematic…
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CRPF Act & Rules: The voyage that lost its way in the sea
By Apoorva Mandhani, Symbiosis Law School, Pune. Early History The premier armed force for internal security of the Union of India, the Central Reserve Police Force was initially constituted as the Crown Representative Police in 1939. It holds the distinction of being one of the oldest Central Para Military Force. CRPF was raised as an…
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Legality of the use of Nuclear Weapons
By Chandan Mohanty, KIIT Law School, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar. The human kind witnessed the destruction that a nuclear weapon can do in the historical attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States during the closing period of the World War II. The effect of the attack was horrifying and may be this is the…
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LexQuest 1st National Article Writing Competition, 2015
About: After the grand success of LexQuest 1st Essay Writing Competition, 2014, LexQuest is pleased to announce LexQuest 1st National Article Writing Competition, 2015. A debate has been sparked off after the External Affairs Minister, Sushma Swaraj called for declaring Bhagvad Gita as a ‘Rashtriya Granth’ i.e. a National Scripture. We would therefore like to…
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Injunction against OnePlus: A Critical Analysis
By Sagarika Chandel, KIIT School Of Law, Bhubaneswar. A legal battle has been waging in India between one of the largest Indian mobile handsets company, Micromax Informatics ltd. and the Chinese smartphone start-up company Shenzen OnePlus Technology Co. ltd. over the rights to distribute the commercial version of the Android based open source operating system…
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Judicial Supremacy vs. Parliament: Why NJAC is better than the Collegium System
By Sanya Darakhshan Kishwar, Central University of Bihar, Gaya. ANALYSING WHAT COLLEGIUM IS It is a system under which appointments and transfers of judges are decided by a forum of the Chief Justice of India and the four senior-most judges of the Supreme Court. It has no place in the Indian Constitution. [1] What does the…
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Foreign Direct Investment in India: I
By Aashna Jain, National Law University, Jodhpur. SEGMENT 1 FDI in Defence- Recent Development It was December 2014 and the debate on the topic of FDI in Defence got heated up. “The biggest and the most immediate fallout from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the United States should be this: India allows 100 per…
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Uber Case: A Critical Analysis
By Archit Gupta, National Law Institute University, Bhopal. A woman was allegedly raped by the driver of a cab she had booked using the app based tax service, Uber[i]in Delhi. Uber is one of those smart app radio taxi services which have given new way of traveling for Indian women. These services are generally considered…
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Child Beggary in India
By Trishala Sanyal, AKK New Law Academy. Introduction Arpita Khan’s wedding was very much in news as she is the adopted sister of the famous Bollywood Thespian, Salman Khan. Little did people know about her being the biological daughter of a homeless beggar woman. She is just one of the lucky children among those thousands…