Decoding the Ayodhya Judgement- Part 2 In 1856-7, a communal riot took place. Historical accounts indicate that the conflagration had its focus at Hanumangarhi and the Babri mosque. Some of…
Decoding the Ayodhya Judgement- Part 1 The appeals that were filed to Supreme Court centre around a dispute between two religious communities both of whom claim ownership over a piece…
Krishna Iyer, J. in Mohammad Giasuddin vs. State of A.P., (1997) 3 SCC 287, quoted George Bernard Shaw the famous satirist who said, “If you are to punish a man…
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).…
Origin Collective responsibility is a cornerstone of the Westminster model. Initially developed- as a constitutional convention in Britain between 1780 and 1832, it began to appear- in text-books in the…
The President was designated as the titular head of government. The founding fathers and mothers of the Constitution adopted the convention which made the President generally bound by the advice…
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…
Constitution is not merely a legal document. The Constitution embodies a political vision of a plural democratic polity. This political vision combines with the values which the founding fathers infused…
The Constitution was adopted in an atmosphere of expectation and idealism. The members of the Constituent Assembly had led the constitutional project with a commitment to the future of a…
“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…
