By Rohin Goyal On 20th June 2019, one of India’s pioneer airlines which used to be “THE” airline in India, officially began the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process [“CIRP”] by order of the National Company Law Tribunal [“NCLT”], Mumbai [1]. Soon after, similar proceedings were initiated in Amsterdam as well [2]. Jet Airways has been plagued […]
Month: March 2020
By Akshat Bhushan Introduction In India, there are twenty states and two union territories that have enacted anti-beggary laws, criminalising the act of begging.[1] A 2018 Delhi High Court order struck down certain provisions of the Bombay Prevention of Begging Act, 1959 (that was extended to the union territory of Delhi) which criminalised involuntary begging […]
By Vikram Chandrasekhar Introduction India, as an apt example, has been a country which since the dawn of the Vedic liturgical tradition has accepted and harmonized with the notions of gender fluidity and queerness centuries before the Western world had even attempted to reconcile with these terms.[1] The crux of the gender inequality crisis, denial […]
By Anmol Ratan John F. Kennedy in his 1961 inaugural speech said, “the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hands of God”[1]. It is this presumption about the metaphysical origin of human rights that makes it problematic for this internationally recognised regime of law to claim absolute […]
By Shivangi Pandia and Prateek Charan Background The word company has no technical meaning attached to it. It simply means a group of individuals who have come together for a common goal. The individuals may associate themselves either for an economic or for a non-economic cause. Chief Justice Marshall defines company to mean that a […]