In Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee, Amritsar v Som Nath Dass, a two judge Bench held the Guru Granth Sahib to be a juristic person. In Shiromani Gurdwara, 56 persons moved…
In Madura, Tirupparankundram v Alikhan Sahib, an entire hill, as a place of public worship, was recognised as a juristic person on the basis of the circumambulation performed around it.…
In Rambrahma Chatterjee v Kedar Nath Banerjee (1922), the respondents instituted a suit for a declaration that they were entitled to participate in the bhog offered to three idols which…
Supreme Court has emphasized that fraud and collusion vitiate the most solemn precedent in any civilized jurisprudence; and that fraud and justice never dwell together (fraus et jus nunquam cohabitant).…
Article 21 of the Constitution states that no person shall be deprived of his liberty except in accordance with law. Conversely, we think that a person is entitled to protection…
“Constitutional culture” is inherent in the concepts where words are transformed into concrete consequences. It is an interlocking system of practices, institutional arrangements, norms and habits of thought that determine…
The task of interpreting an instrument as dynamic as the Constitution assumes great import in a democracy. The Constitutional Courts are entrusted with the critical task of expounding the provisions…
In the Constituent Assembly Debates, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar spoke thus on collective responsibility: ¬ “I want to tell my friend Prof. K.T. Shah that his amendment would be absolutely fatal…
The concept of constitutional governance in a body polity like ours, where the Constitution is the supreme fundamental law, is neither hypothetical nor an abstraction but is real, concrete and…
Constitutional morality in its strictest sense of the term implies strict and complete adherence to the constitutional principles as enshrined in various segments of the document. When a country is…
