Clipping the Wings of Drones? A Legal Look at India’s 2025 Drone Bill
Introduction India’s proposed Civil Drone (Promotion and Regulation) Bill, 2025 (“the Bill”) is a self-contained enactment to regulate Unmanned Aircraft ...
Can Caste be a determinant for Social and Educational Backwardness? – Indira Sawhney Case
In Indira Sawhney v. Union of India (1992), amongst other issues, the Supreme Court made an analysis on whether caste ...
The Definition of ‘Backwardness’ under Article 16
Article 16(4) expressly permits the State to make any provision for the reservation of appointments or posts in favour of ...
The Meaning of ‘Class’ and ‘Caste’- Indira Sawhney Case
In Indira Sawhney v. Union of India (1992), while stating that the caste cannot be a sole factor for determining ...
The Rise of Corporate Criminal Liability: Holding Companies Accountable for White-Collar Crimes
Kashish Jain,(BBA LLB HONOURS (Final Year)), Prestige Institute of Management & Research Abstract The shift of corporate entities from simple ...
Whether a particular class of citizens is backward or not is a justiciable one- Triloki Nath Case
Article 16(4) expressly permits the State to make any provision for the reservation of appointments or posts in favour of ...
Why Article 15(4) was inserted in the Constitution? – A Brief History
The Government of Tamil Nadu issued a Communal G.O. in 1927 making compartmental reservation of posts for various communities. Subsequently ...
Appointment of Commissions in India for Identifying Backward Classes
For providing reservations for backward class of citizens, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the public educational institutions and for ...
Fundamental Rights those aspire for egalitarian Society
S. Ratnavael Pandian. J.[1] Part-III dealing with 'Fundamental Rights' and Part-IV dealing with 'Directive Principles of State Policy' which represent ...
Indira Sawhney-I- What were the facts of the Writ Petitions?
For giving effective implementation to clause (4) of Article 16 that provides equality of opportunity in matters of public employment ...
The Prologue of Indira Sawhney-I Judgment by Justice S.R. Pandian
S. Ratnavael Pandian. J.[1] Equality of status and of opportunity.......' the rubric chiselled in the luminous preamble of our vibrating ...
Does Article 14 also apply to Foreigners?
Article runs as follows :- "The State shall not deny to any Person equality before the law or the equal ...
Can Fundamental Rights be Waived? – Basheshar Nath Case
The case of Basheshar Nath v. Commissioner of Income-tax, Delhi and Rajasthan and another (1958) is a landmark case on ...
The History of Insertion of Fundamental Rights to Indian Constitution
H.H. Bhagwati, J[1]. - Ours is a nascent democracy and situated as we are, socially, economically, educationally and politically, it ...
Can Fundamental Rights be Waived? – Basheshar Nath Case
The case of Basheshar Nath v. Commissioner of Income-tax, Delhi and Rajasthan and another (1958) is a landmark case on ...
Continuing Wrong Principle in Service Law- When It Applies?
In Union of India v. Tarsem Singh (2008), the Court deliberated on the question of ‘continuing wrong’ on state’s part ...
Section 5 of the Limitation Act- Condonation of Delay is not the Right of Applicant
Section 5 of the Limitation Act. Section 5 of the Limitation Act, reads as under: - “5. Extension of prescribed ...
Rule of Limitations- General Policy of the law of limitation is to favour the use of legal diligence
Supreme Court in Hameed Joharan (Dead) & Ors. v. Abdul Salam (Dead) by LRs & Ors., reported in (2001) 7 ...
Rule of Limitation- Jurisprudential Aspects
Rules of limitation are not meant to destroy the rights of parties. They are meant to see that parties do ...
Section 5 of the Limitation Act- Interpretation of the Expression ‘for not preferring the appeal or making the application within such period’
Section 5 of the Limitation Act, reads as under: - “5. Extension of prescribed period in certain cases— Any appeal ...