Just Social Lawyering!!

In December last year, Parliament passed the Repealing and Amending (Second) Bill, 2017 whereby various obsolete Laws were repealed, one of the significant act which was in law books since 1876 was also repealed which had given headache to the theatre artist for more than century. The Act was implemented by British Government to prohibit public dramatic performances, which are scandalous, defamatory, seditious or obscene. Modern Indian theatre was developed during the colonial era and in order to resist its use as an instrument of protest against colonial rule, the British Government had passed the said Act. In the year 1858-1860, Dinabandhu Mitra wrote a play Nil “Darpan “which brought anti-british subject matter to the general public depicting colonial planters ruthlessly oppressing poor peasants and Rev.James Long who translated the play in English was fined and imprisoned in the year 1861. In 1876, soon after Edward, the Prince of Wales, visited Calcutta, the Great National The...

OBJECT: The objective of the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code, 2015 is to consolidate and amend the laws relating to reorganization and insolvency resolution of corporate persons, partnership firms and individuals in a time bound manner. As we are aware that there is no single law in India that deals with Insolvency and Bankruptcy. As per present legal framework, provisions relating to Insolvency and Bankruptcy for companies can be found in the Sick Industrial Companies (Special Provisions) Act, 1985, the Recovery of Debt to Banks and Financial Institutions Act, 1993, the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 and the Companies Act, 2013. Liquidation process of the Companies is being handled by the High Court under Companies Act and other Courts are dealing Insolvency & bankruptcy of Individual. As the existing framework is inadequate, ineffective and results in undue delays in resolution, therefore the Insolvenc...

Jawaharlal Nehru University (“JNU”), a central university was established by the laws of parliament with an objective to promote the study of the principles for which Jawaharlal Nehru worked during his life-time, national integration, social justice, secularism, democratic way of life, international understanding and scientific approach to the problems of society. [1] On 09.02.2016, a Cultural Evening was organized by Student Group calling it “Poetry Reading: The Country without Post-office” and despite being cancellation of the Event by JNU Administration, Organizer went ahead and organized the programme where allegedly certain objectionable slogans were raised against the country resulting into arrest of JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar and as expected, politics of left, right and centre wing started on the issue and warring forces started questioning the motives and forceful enforcement of ideology etc., which is not the subject matter herein. I am confining my write-up to the free...

LEAVING aside the debate on legitimacy of death penalty, the concern herein is the authority of an Institution. The Supreme Court of India after hearing contention and arguments advanced by counsel for Yakub held him guilty and punished him with Death penalty for Bombay Blast in year 1993. After the verdict, many people stated that the Supreme Court has not followed proper procedure and some of them gave it a communal colour by stating that Yakub has been hanged because he belongs to a minority community. Such things are unfortunate and strictly speaking one should not have questioned the institution and its honesty. If we look around the world, there is massive distrust in the Institution and Masses feel joyous whenever someone questions the integrity of the Institution. For any society to survive and grow, it has to believe in Rule of Law as every human being is inherently possess different behavioral patterns and act differently in a given situation and Rule of Law provides ...

Enlightment thinkers have rejected the authoriity of medieval belief in divine rights of King and upheld the freedom of individual to think for themselves. Rene Descartes say I think, therefore I am. Enlightment thinker also feels that people should have a say in their government. The elections are basically seeking a collective say of the people in governance. Does it happen realy? Or people are forced by the Political Parties, to think, the way, party want? I am of the view that the Political Strategist are capable to force the people to think, the way, they want. This collective thinking or hypnotism or mesmire, which is being created by the parties over a period of time can be referred to as Political Wave or rather we can say that selected information disseminated by a political outfilt against its political opponent plays a pivotal role in election. We must have noticed that whenever Election Commission of India declare, dates for election, people start getting s...