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
DailyPost 2376 WHO IS OUR PARLIAMENT ACCOUNTABLE TO? Is parliament accountable to somebody or is it the epitome of unaccountability? If that is the case how nebulous the democratic mechanism itself becomes in operation. The gap between the de-jure and de-facto has kept on increasing with every passing session of the parliament. Parliamentary sovereignty is
DailyPost 2369 ON THE RECORD… On the record broadly means on legal records, that falls under legal ambit and you can be held accountable for it. You can be penalized or hauled up for it and can lead to various types of punishment. Contrary to on the record is off the record for which you
DailyPost 2353 CRIMINAL INFORMATION – NO ONE’S JOB Providing criminal information is no one’s job. We have been talking of nationalism and duties of a citizen ad nauseum, how many of us have provided any criminal information which we are in clear knowledge of, to the police, or the other legal authority, in our whole
DailyPost 2352 THE REAL SYSTEM WITHIN THE SYSTEM Is there an operational system, our own innovative self-creation, which is the real one, within the overall copybook system that we so passionately talk about and are legally mandated with? Without the lip service to real one, the one which provides all the aura, in this case
DailyPost 2344 SECTIONS OF LAW The application or the misapplication of sections of law has been one of the eternal debates in the criminal justice system of this country. The law makers in different de facto avatars are very important to the actual functioning of democracy and the nation. Technical apart, how do you differentiate
DailyPost 2328 LEGISLATURE SESSIONS – EVIDENCE BASED PROTOCOL The country gets is functional sovereign status when the Union Legislature makes laws aligned to the bedrock of the all laws – the constitution. It is for this reason it is known as the law of the land. The executive is accountable to it. In the democratic
