India is a member of the United Nations and has ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). A large number of United Nations international documents prohibit the…
The right to life is the most fundamental of all rights. The right to life, as guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution of India, provides that no person shall…
The power of the executive to grant pardon under Article 72/161 is a Constitutional power and the Court, on numerous occasions, has declined to frame guidelines for the exercise of…
Both Articles 72 and 161 repose the power of the people in the highest dignitaries, i.e., the President or the Governor of a State, as the case may be, and…
It is apposite to refer the relevant Articles which give power to the President of India and the Governor to grant pardons and to suspend, remit or commute sentences in…
The question of construction may manifest itself in two totally different ways. In one class of cases the question may simply be, as to what the parties themselves had actually…
Section 56 occurs in Chapter IV of the Contract Act which relates to peformance of contracts and it purports to deal with one class of circumstances under which performance of…
The constitutional scheme for the removal of a Judge of the Supreme Court or a High Court in accordance with Article 124(4) of the Constitution and the Judges (Inquiry) Act,…
In Mafatlal Industries Ltd v. Union of India , 1997 (5) SCC 536; 1996 INSC 1514. a decision by a bench of nine judges of Supreme Court, the majority opinion…
Not every observation in a judgement of Supreme Court is binding as precedent. Only the ratio decidendi or the propositions of law that were necessary to decide on the issues…
