Archives for Law & Policy
The CLATaclysm of a Legal Exam
The legal educational examinations in the territory of India have always been marred by controversy and the quintessential deficiency of all elements you would associate with a modern welfare state.…
Taxing Times: Leaving India to Commence a Business/Take up Employment in an overseas location
Introduction The Central Board of Direct Taxes (hereinafter 'CBDT') has set up a five-member working group led by a joint secretary-rank official and four revenue officers to look into the taxation…
Crimes from Colonial Hangover: Marital Rape
“We take the view that the time has now arrived when the law should declare that a rapist remains a rapist subject to the criminal law, irrespective of his relationship…
The Fact, the Law, & the Changing Privacy Policies of the Narendra Modi Application
The Backstory A supposedly French security researcher, you uses the Twitter name Elliot Anderson (@fs0c131y), and has till now riddled many holes into the claims of Aadhaar infrastructure being unbreakable…
Draining the Political Swamp: SC Questions Politicians Income Source
There are not many things BJP and Congress agree on, but two of those things they agree on are increasing their own salaries, by virtue of the Finance Bill 2018,…
Who Shall Watch the Watchmen: Trouble in the Supreme Paradise
“Be you ever so high, the law is above you.” ~ Thomas Fuller, a 17th Century English churchman, and historian No one could have predicted what 12th January 2018 would…
Critique of the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2017
‘Talaq-e-biddat is no Talaq’ per Shayara Bano The Constitution bench of the Supreme Court comprising of 5 judges in the Shayara Bano v. The Union of India delivered 3…
Law, Intersectionality and the Need for Reform
Lawmaking comes to an inherent challenge. Tied to the geographic boundaries of the State it is made for, it is inherently one-size-fits-all in its verbiage, so as to be able…
Decoding the Triple Talaq Judgement: The Ratio, the Order and the Balancing Act
Factual Background The controversy around Triple Talaq came to court after a suo-motu writ petition was initiated by the Supreme Court in the case of Prakash v. Phulavati - a…
Right of the Electors to Question the Elected – Sri Madabhushi Sridhar, Hon’ble Central Information Commissioner of India
A voter Vishnu Dev Bhandari asked for the progress of the works undertaken in Khatauna block of Madhubani District, Bihar, and under RTI he was asking for action taken a…