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24.10.20 – 30.10.20

Hello! This past week has seen several developments ranging from the Supreme Court ruling that officers involved in NDPS cases cannot give admissible confessional statements to the Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons being ratified to enter into force. Happy reading!

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TeLawgram

11.10.20 – 17.10.20

Hello! This past week, we’ve seen a number of legal updates, ranging from the Delhi High Court issuing a notice to the Centre in the same sex marriage plea, to Bangladesh passing a law increasing the maximum punishment for rape from life imprisonment to death penalty.
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TeLawgram

03.10.20 – 10.10.20

Greetings! We are pleased to present ‘TeLawgram’, our new weekly segment focussing on events of legal importance – in India and elsewhere. For your ease, we will be providing a brief summary of events, as well as a reading list that explores different points of view. With TeLawgram, we hope to both inform readers and […]

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Constitutional Law

Who Blemished the Virtue of the Court? Bhushan or the Court Itself?

Amartya Sahastranshu Singh & Manish Kumar “Freedom is what freedom does and Justice fails when Judges quail” Justice V.R Krishna Iyer Prashant Bhushan’s two tweets on 27th June 2020 and 22nd July 2020 respectively, have shaken up the apex judicial institution of India. He posted tweets censuring the last four CJIs  for playing a leading […]