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Criminal

Antil’s Category A: Automatic Gateway or Consideration of Merits?

Rahul Ranjan A 2022 judgment, Deepak Sethi v. State of Uttarakhand (‘Sethi’), seems to have gone unnoticed by many observers, but potentially opens up questions about the guidelines given in the case of Satender Antil v. Central Bureau of Investigation (‘Antil’) for Category A offences. The Sethi judgment of the Uttarakhand High Court categorically observed […]

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Privacy Law

Know Your Verifier: A Comment on the Law and Practice of Mandatory Aadhaar Authentication Procedures

Sankalp Srivastava Introduction This article is written broadly in the context of the documented categories of misuse of the Aadhaar regime to impose mandatory authentication by private players and the State.  For instance, private service providers continue to make Aadhaar mandatory for availing their services. In many cases, it goes unreported, but there are documented […]

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Health Law

Quackery: Mock of Indian Public Health System

Vansh Singh and Niyati Trivedi Introduction In his keynote speech at the first session of the National Academy of Medical Sciences, the Chief Justice of India (CJI) emphasised the important connection between ‘Law and Medicine,’ particularly highlighting the widespread problem of quackery as a significant issue impacting the country. The Chief Justice of India (CJI) […]