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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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Constitutional Law

Parliamentary Powers in Question: Analysing the Controversy Surrounding Mahua Moitra’s Expulsion and the Constitutional Landscape of Indian Legislative Authority

Sashank Saravanan and Kanan Shivhare Introduction In the hallowed halls of the Indian Parliament, where debates shape the destiny of a nation, a recent controversy has ignited a fervent discourse on the powers vested in the legislative body to regulate the conduct of its members. The expulsion of Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra from the […]