DailyPost 2451 EQUALITY BEFORE LAW! There have been constitutional guarantees and rights, which all of us possess and we have been repeating it over and over again, even without batting an eyelid. It is presumed to be delivered or so the powers would like us believe. All these are emancipating mental legal constructs which have […]
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DailyPost 2424 IS CRIMINAL LAW IN SAFE HANDS? Creating a whole mechanism of criminal law is not easy, it takes huge amount legal acumen and understanding jurisprudence, legal systems, crimes, nature of penal needs, society, culture and what not. It evolves over period of time improving upon the robustness of justice it can provide. It
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DailyPost 2419 DO YOU KNOW THE CONSTITUTION? The plethora of issues landing in the courts with regards to powers of constitutional functionaries, modalities of government formation, defections, executive powers / decision making, at times powers of an elected government itself as in Delhi, reservations, bonds, arrests and even some law or the other not being
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DailyPost 2413 INDIAN POWER BROKERS ACT Was there money laundering in this country before Prevention of Money Laundering Act 2002 came into existence? Certainly, it was. How rampant and how much it was impacting the economy and society of the nation through its multifarious ramifications, for which there wouldn’t be objective and validated data points
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DailyPost 2410 IS CRIMINALITY IN THE AIR? Not going by the figures of crime being quoted or misquoted, in a combination or a narrative to suit your purpose, there is not denying the fact that as a society, today we are more numbed to criminal acts, than a few decades back. Has the pervasiveness of
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DailyPost 2407 F.I.R.ed Seventy-five years is supposed to be a small time in the life of a nation, but if in the same time a constitutional democracy is not able to establish the bare essentials of the rule of law, then there is an issue. And that too a serious one. With all the grandstanding
DailyPost 2403 THE ELUSIVE FIR First Information Report, FIR, is the most common abbreviation, known to everyone, regarding the criminal investigation, and the criminal justice system. Without getting into the legalese, it simply means that any information of a cognizable offence reported to the police, is brought down in writing and that becomes the gist
DailyPost 2397 UNCONSTITUTIONAL! As in any other country, there are any number of functionaries at different levels who adorn constitutional positions, after by being sworn by it, and they form the major bulwark of the functioning of the democratic nations in all its dimensions. This is radically different from any other system of governance. Besides,
DailyPost 2396 OUTLAWED Outlawed means a person who is a fugitive from the law. These are not normal offenders but are the ones who have reached a level of notoriety and that is where this sobriquet is provided to them. Outlawed are ones with whom a normal law-abiding person would think twice to interact, given
DailyPost 2388 OVERSIGHT, VERIFICATION & VALIDATION OF POLITICAL PERSONAS Are oversight and validation a necessity in public life? The more we talk of cleansing, the messier it turns out to be. The practitioners of the cat and mouse game of probity in public have always been won by vested interests and there seems to literally
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DailyPost 2379 THE LOST LEGALITY Fairness not a democratic trait. It has to evolve as a human trait. Human history has proven that very few cultures, communities and societies have been able to inculcate it amongst its members. Democracy and democratic mindset somehow propagate the ideology to fight for your rights and rightly so. Given
