In the first column on Sexual Harassment at Workplace in our Know Your Rights series, it is only fair to start it by understanding what is meant by “Sexual harassment at workplace”. At the outset, it should be distinguished from “sexual harassment” in a non-workplace context as the hierarchal set-up that is definitive of an…
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A look at social media trends and hashtags suggests that an Orwellian state or a police state has been unleashed by Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). The Leaflet published a legal analytical piece ringing alarm bells. This current piece is an endeavour to examine the MHA Order dated December 20, 2018 solely from the point…
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On December 20, 2018 the Central Government through the Ministry of Home Affairs brought out a notification in exercise of its powers under Section 69(2) and Section 87(2)(y) of the Information Technology Act, 2000 read with Rule 4 of the Information Technology (Procedure and Safeguards for Interception, Monitoring, and Decryption of Information) Rules 2009 —…
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The Supreme Court in its much-awaited judgment on Rafale petitions given on Friday, December 14, 2018, the last day before the winter recess of the Court, has given no glory to the learned judges, especially the Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi as the judgment seems to be an attempt to avoid all the contentious…
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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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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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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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