In a deliberative democracy, the aspirations of the people are met by discourse in democratic institutions. The foremost among these institutions are Parliament and the State Legislatures. The object of…
At the core of governance is the conflict between different constitutional values or different conceptions of the same constitutional value. Countries with a written Constitution attempt to resolve these conflicts…
In Justice KS Puttaswamy (9J) v. Union of India a nine-Judge Bench of Supreme Court held that the Constitution guarantees the right to privacy. Supreme Court traced the right to…
Tenth Schedule The Constitution of India did not make a reference to political parties when it was adopted. A reference was made when the Tenth Schedule was included in the…
ADR Judgment In Union of India v. Association for Democratic Reforms (“ADR”), Supreme Court traced the right of voters to have information about the antecedents, including the criminal past, of…
Article 19(1)(a) has been held to guarantee the right to information to citizens. The judgments of Supreme Court on the right to information can be divided into two phases. In…
Section 31 of the RBI Act stipulates that only the RBI or the Central Government authorized by the RBI Act shall draw, accept, make, or issue any bill of exchange…
Under the doctrine of lost grant, a long-continued use or possession can raise a legal presumption that the right exercised was previously conveyed to the user or possessor and that…
A waqf is a dedication of movable or immovable property for a religious or charitable purpose recognised by Muslim law. Ordinarily, a waqf is brought into existence by an express…
The concept of ‘justice, equity and good conscience’ as a tool to ensure a just outcome also finds expression in Article 142 of the Constitution which reads: “142. (1) The…
