A two-judge bench comprising of Justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta, in the matter of Nipun Saxena v. Union of India laid down guidelines regarding the disclosure of a victim’s identity in cases of sexual harassment. In the judgment, the bench acknowledged the social stigma associated with a victim who is often question as…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has lost his mojo after the devastating reverses faced by the BJP in the three of its ruling states — Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan. The Modi magic is gone and ominous signals have been given to the BJP by the people of the Hindi-speaking states five months before the scheduled…
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Things were not the same anymore. With much trepidation, Muhammad Yousaf Pujwala, 45, stepped inside the forest village Rasana in Kathua district — which has been winter home to past several generations of his ancestors — early this month. Amid threats — which followed ugly communal politics over his eight-year-old daughter’s brutal gangrape and murder…
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The underlying story around the sudden resignation of the governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is not about what has happened, but what hasn’t. Dr Urjit Patel did not resign when the tussle had peaked. He had in fact dug in his heels on one of the points of contention, that is, sharing…
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The Congress’s revival after having hit the lowest point in its history in 2014 is the big takeaway from the assembly election results. By the same token, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) hope of ushering in a Congress-mukt (free) India has been dashed, along with its dream of reigning from panchayats to parliament for the…
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The police of Narendra Modi and Rajnath Singh has succeeded to eliminate a good number of Maoist cadres, but they could not quite break the backbone of Maoists in Chhattisgarh, despite severe repression using the state machinery and putting a number of innocent people in jail for being sympathisers of the Maoists. While the police…
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Aaj mere pita ji ko mara ha, kal kisi IG ko marenge, parson kisi Minister ko marenge.” This was the anguished cry of the son of the deceased Inspector Subodh Kumar Singh of Uttar Pradesh Police in an interview to a prominent TV channel. He further appealed to the public to ensure communal harmony and…
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The BJP has a running grudge that the exit polls have been consistently under-projecting its tally in all elections since 2014. It is worth recalling the exit polls had forecast a BJP government in the 2015 Bihar assembly elections, but when the actual counting began the Mahagathbandhan won. The psephologists had written off the RJD,…
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It is a great honour for me to be writing on criminal law for the new “Know Your Rights” series started under The Leaflet banner. In criminal law, knowing our rights would be to create an understanding of various penal laws, specifically the Indian Penal Code, the Criminal Procedure Code and the Indian Evidence Act.…
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Today, we are living in a world which is constantly embracing technological wonders, with the “World Wide Web” or the Internet being one of the most distinctive and prominent features of our technosocial era. While now people can communicate with each other sitting in any corner of the planet, provided there’s digital connectivity, global trade…
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