Blogs
An Overview of Medical Crimes in India with respect to Covid-19
Nov. 24, 2021 • PRATEEK MUDGAL
Reproductive Choice of a Woman: A Fundamental Right
Nov. 24, 2021 • PRATEEK MUDGAL
Role of Women in Armed Conflicts
Nov. 24, 2021 • Bhawna Pawar
Women have experienced both conflict and peace-building, and offers new bits of knowledge and gives significant exercises for worldwide and public offices advancing majority rules system change and peace-building. The role of women and challenges faced by women during conflict is provided along with the measures of spreading peace.
Passive Euthanasia
Nov. 24, 2021 • PRATEEK MUDGAL
Prostitution in India: A Protected Vocation?
Nov. 22, 2021 • Bhawna Pawar
This article aims to evaluate the legality of prostitution as a profession in the light of recent judgments, and the Immoral Traffic Prevention Act.
Intoxication as a Defence
Oct. 17, 2021 • Bhawna Pawar
The Indian Penal Code recognizes the involuntary intoxication defence and its potential applicability to cases in which the defendant's criminal behaviour is believed to be associated with alcohol or drugs use. Rulings and laws concerning such a defence are generally based on beliefs held by the Indian public and criminal justice system about the behavioural effects of alcohol.
Restorative Justice & Challenges for the 21st Century
Oct. 15, 2021 • Bhawna Pawar
Restorative justice developed in the last part of the 1970s as an option in contrast to ordinary youth and criminal justice rehearses. Restorative Justice has encountered fast development in principle and practice. In this article, we put forward some greatest difficulties confronting the fate of Restorative Justice.
How MC Mehta Led The Formation Of Jurisdiction On Environmental Laws In India?
Oct. 15, 2021 • Bhawna Pawar
M.C. Mehta's public interest environmental litigation cases have framed the establishment for the advancement of environmental jurisprudence in India. He is a lawyer by profession and committed environmentalist by choice, he has made the fight to protect India’s environment his unending mission. He has pioneered legal activism for environmental protection.
SOUND MINDS CAN GET AWAY WITH MURDER…!
Aug. 31, 2021 • Kareena John
HE GOT AWAY WITH MURDER, NOT ONCE - BUT TWICE!
As rightly quoted by Dorothy McCoy, "Manipulation is a contagious disease, much more dangerous than the flu because it can endure for a lifetime!" Such is the case here, of manipulation of psychology and law, where a man was acquitted of 2 murders on the grounds of unsound mind - that even the courts couldn't escape it! So if you can manipulate the law and psychology and twist it like this man did, you sure can be successful too!
International Treaties and Conventions Addressing Child Trafficking
Aug. 24, 2021 • Bhawna Pawar
Deportation with Assurance: A Breathing Space for States' Human Right Obligations and Counter-terrorism Policies?
Aug. 10, 2021 • Samarth Luthra
Deportation with assurance, or Diplomatic assurance is emerging as an effective tool usedby states to demonstrate their compliance with various human rights obligations while alsoobjectively eliminating persons posing threat to their national security. This tactic used by State is, however, negatively received by human rights advocates across the globe and is imputed to highlight states’ ambivert attitude towards torture. The article analyses the States’ stance on DWAs against the backdrop of human rights advocates’ contention of failure DWAs to eliminate torture.
Legal Ramifications of Damage by Space Debris and the Adequacy of the Liability Regime in the 21st Century.
July 27, 2021 • Samarth Luthra
The Splashdown of China’s Long March 5B in the Indian Ocean reinvigorated the international dialogue about the loopholes in the liability regime under the 1972 Liability Convention. The article discusses the legal recourse under the 1972 Liability Conventions to establish liability in the event of damage caused on Earth by space debris and the inadequacy of the existing liability regime in the backdrop of the expansion of space exploration in the 21st Century.
All That You Need to Know About the Central Vista Project
July 7, 2021 • Architi Batra
The Central Vista redevelopment project has been hitting the newspaper headlines over the past couple of months with the concern of it not being the right time to reconstruct a new parliament in times of the ongoing pandemic and the lack of adequate infrastructure in issues of more importance such as health. This article aims to provide a neutral standpoint to help the readers understand the Central Vista project and its history.
Model Tenancy Act: A Boon to India’s Rental Housing Market?
June 14, 2021 • Samarth Luthra
The Model Tenancy Act is formulated with the aim to formalise and institutionalise the rental housing market, and to maximise the rental yield. It proposes to streamline the complex tenant-landlord relationship that was conveniently overlooked by its predecessor. The article highlights the significance of implementation of Model Tenancy Act in the expansion of the rental housing market, while dealing with the key provisions of the Act.
Overview: Legal state of cannibalism In India
June 6, 2021 • sakshi arya
In the age where even the living fight for their right to live a life of dignity, whether the dead have rights while it may seem inconsequential is relevant. The dead cannot speak but do they have a right to a decent burial and not be violated or have their bodies desecrated?
Do cannibals also deserve rights, do cultures and rituals get a leeway, and finally is cannibalism a sign of mental degradation?
Finally playing the devil's advocate, does cannibalism need a specific provision criminalizing it, or would it coming under murder and trespass of a burial ground suffice?
Vaccine Delivery Systems in India –Contribution to public health.
May 18, 2021 • Nitish Rai
Overview: The Epidemic Diseases (Amendment) Bill, 2020
April 25, 2021 • sakshi arya
The COVID-19 pandemic has raised severe concern over the health of every individual across the world. The virus had the deadly property of transmission from one to another human just by coming in contact with the infected person and hence, the social distancing theory is to be followed by each person in India. The health workers have been in the middle of the situation since its beginning. They have been catering to the health concerns of every infected person, along with regular carrying out of tests to find out who is infected.
They are in direct contact with the infected patient while providing treatment or conducting tests. They are highly vulnerable as they cannot restrict human contact from the infected people so as to prevent themselves from getting infected. The Government while acknowledging the sacrifices of these front line workers addressed them as health warriors. This Bill was passed keeping in mind and protecting the interests of these health warriors.
Overview: DAUGHTER’S RIGHT TO COPARCENARY AMID DECLINING COPARCENARY PROPERTY
April 23, 2021 • sakshi arya
The article seeks to highlight the plight of the daughter as a coparcener in a Hindu Undivided Family.
Call for Papers: Contribute to an ISBN bearing Research Publication
April 20, 2021 • Architi Batra
Sushruta, Niti Manthan Centre for Medical & Health Law is inviting students & professionals to contribute and get their research papers published with its upcoming report! Read for more details.
NATIONAL EDUCATION POLICY: A BOON AMIDST THE CRISIS
April 19, 2021 • Dheerja Kalra
The Ministry of Human Resource Development has created a quixotic National Education Policy, 2020 that includes various aspects like the psychology of an individual, revamping the administration and regulation of education. A joint task force has been created comprising the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Health and Family Welfare (HFW), and Tribal Affairs for planning and implementation of the policy. The improvised system of assessment namely PARAKH (Performance Assessment, Review and Analysis of Knowledge for Holistic development) gives a ray of hope that education will no longer be a formality but be a sign of excellence and quality. This article explores and analysis the policy.