Keeping Pace with Legal Change
It happens more often than people want to admit. Two adults meet. They date for years. Things get serious and marriage is discussed. Then it…
The tragic Air India Flight AI171 crash in Ahmedabad is under investigation by India’s AAIB, guided by ICAO’s Annex 13. This report details the accident, the role of black boxes, and international collaboration with NTSB, Boeing, and GE, aiming to prevent future tragedies.
By Justice Katju, former Judge of Indian Supreme Court
In Aakash Deep Chouhan Vs. CBI, the Delhi High Court adjudicated that systemic corruption is a subject of “public safety”, thereby allowing phone interceptions under current laws. Such surveillance was upheld by the court only if supported by due process, asserting stringent compliance with legal protections. This landmark ruling expands investigators’ powers against corruption while reiterating the necessity to weigh personal privacy against public interest.
In a landmark decision for maritime law and environmental responsibility, Kerala High Court has issued a conditional arrest of the…
In a development that has caused waves in the Indian legal profession, the Supreme Court of India recently took suo…
The present article explores judicial consequences of false rape complaints in the Indian law by looking into evidential provisions of IPC and CrPC. It specifies provisions on misleading information such as 182 and 211 IPC and their implications to complainants. The article also emphasizes legal protection and evidence playing the most important role in proving falsity.
The following paper will discuss the case of bribery with alleged NMC doctor during the testing in a medical college, including the details of this event and the punishment that will follow under the preamble of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 of India. It points out to the strict measures, blacklisting and sanctioning the involved college, taken by the NMC in upholding integrity in medical education.
Kerala University Registrar K.S. Anil Kumar pulled back seeking relief in the High Court to challenge the suspension after he was reinstated by the Syndicate. This was after a controversy in one of the portraits titled Bharat Mata. The High Court allowed the withdrawal, but recognizing the internal resolution, did not exclude wider institutional authority issues as the subject of future legal action.
This article discusses two recent cases of the RG Kar Medical College Kolkata and a college law College of South Kolkata, with a view of bringing light to the issue of female safety in academic institutions. It outlines legal measures, societal reactions, and the available legal framework to the cases of these crimes, and stressed the necessity to deploy effective safety measures.
This paper narrates the spy case of Jyoti Malhotra, especially on how she has had her judicial remand extended time and again. It gives an account of her arrest, her charges of meeting with the Pakistani intelligence, the legality of the detention and gives an overview of the case being brought against her, as it is.
