Opinion: Refine Land Acquisition Process to Unclog Courts
The debate over the recent Karnataka Land Reforms (Amendment) Ordinance has brought into focus the contestations over land in rural India.
A 21st Century Justice Platform for India
Leah Verghese and Surya Prakash from Daksh India talk to host Pavan Srinath about how a 21st-century justice platform can transform access to justice for Indians.
As COVID-19 Spreads in Jails, Police Stuff Prisons
Bengaluru: It was only a matter of time before Covid-19 reached India’s overcrowded prisons, currently running at 118% of capacity and reaching as high as 176.5% in Uttar Pradesh.
What 787 Cases in the Gauhati HC Tell Us About How ‘Suspected Foreigner’ Cases Are Decided
Two widely reported recent orders of the Gauhati high court have drawn attention to the issue of documents submitted by ‘suspected foreigners’ being deemed insufficient by Foreigners Tribunals to establish Indian citizenship.
Caught in a Bureaucratic Web
The Gauhati High Court declared Sahijuddin a foreigner on November 13, 2015. He had appealed to the High Court against an ex-parte order of the Foreigners Tribunal in Kokrajhar declaring him a foreigner.
Mountain of Pendency
THE WIDESPREAD support for the encounter killing of the four accused in the 2019 Hyderabad gang-rape and murder case is a symptom, albeit an extreme one, of the increasing trust deficit between the citizens and the justice system.
Testing Judicial Reforms
The media has given extensive coverage to experimental research in social sciences in the recent months following the Nobel Committee’s decision to award the Economics prize to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer.
Time Limit On Stay Orders
In a 2018 judgment with far-reaching repercussions for litigants and lawyers, a three-judge Bench of the Supreme Court in Asian Resurfacing of Road Agency Private Limited v Central Bureau of Investigation (2018 SCC Online 310) has restricted the duration of stays in both criminal as well as civil trials to six months.