Blogs
Mediation as an alternative to litigation
March 13, 2020 • Architi Batra
There are a few different ways to settle your personal injury case, and your attorney will be able to help you decide the best course of action. While you’re working out the details of your case with them, you might hear the words mediation and litigation.
How To File An RTI Application: A Complete Guide
March 13, 2020 • Architi Batra
Every citizen has the right to know about one's work for them. How one can get all the information about the one working for them, the whole process step by step to be followed. It also contains the steps to be followed for filing RTI appeal if the RTI application is rejected or not provided with satisfactory replies.
REGISTRATION OF A COMPANY UNDER SECTION – 8
March 12, 2020 • Madhav Gawri
The article provides with the steps to register of a company defined under Section 8 of the Companies Act, 2013
How to deal with Identity Theft?
March 10, 2020 • Mayank Arya
Despite enormous advances in technology, millions of people have their identities stolen. An offender can gather sensitive information through low-tech methods of physically acquiring it, as well as hi-tech methods that use various technologies to capture an individual's information. Yet, there are multiple tools and ways of preventing identity theft that is accessible to the everyday consumer, who either are ignorant of them or just cannot be bothered. Identity theft has become perhaps the defining crime of the information age, with an estimated 9 million or more incidents each year. Identity theft is one of the most widely used crimes which involve the use of personal data by other individuals.
Right to Equality_Lecture 1
March 7, 2020 • Yash Kulshreshtha
Online Fraud and ways to deal with it
Feb. 28, 2020 • Mayank Arya
Online fraud is a type of fraud or deception which makes use of the internet and could involve hiding of information or providing incorrect information to cause fraud involving money, property, and inheritance. Internet fraud is not considered a single, distinctive crime but covers a range of illegal and illicit actions that are committed in cyberspace. It is, however, differentiated from theft since, in this case, the victim voluntarily and knowingly provides the information, money or property to the perpetrator.
GENDER SENSITISATION OF POLICE OFFICERS
Feb. 27, 2020 • Madhav Gawri
Sex is a biological concept and is assigned by birth. On the other hand, gender is how society regards a person i.e., how the community accepts the person. Violence against women is increasing at an alarming rate and thus there is a need to protect the outspread of the crime. Not only women, a person belonging to the LGBT community are also vulnerable victims of violence and sexual harassment.
Legislation And Its Types
Feb. 26, 2020 • Architi Batra
Broadly speaking there are two types of Legislation viz Supreme and Sub-ordinate. However, this distinction has varied over different eras in history and across the globe in different countries throughout.
Role of forensic science in the Indian criminal justice system
Feb. 26, 2020 • Architi Batra
This article focuses on the need of forensic science and how it plays a vital role and the significance of the forensic science in the Indian criminal justice system.
Free Consent as a Essential of Contract
Feb. 26, 2020 • Mayank Arya
One of the essentials to a valid contract is presence of free consent. If the consent is not free, then the contract is voidable at the option of the party whose consent was not free. Under the Indian Contract Act,1872, consent is not free if it is given under Coercion, Undue influence, Fraud, Misrepresentation and Mistake.
Unlawful Assembly
Feb. 23, 2020 • Mayank Arya
All Independent Countries provide a right to its citizens to express themselves in any manner as they like but subject to some restrictions. Unlawful Assembly is one such restriction. It restricts assembly of a number of persons who are there for an unlawful object or purpose.
Transgender Health in India
Feb. 23, 2020 • Architi Batra
Abuse of Dominance (Competition Law)
Feb. 22, 2020 • Madhav Gawri
Neither the Competition Act, 2002 in India nor the EU competitive laws punishes a company to hold a dominant position in the market. This article enumerates the conditions, cases and the principle behind in holding a dominant position and misusing the same for super profits.
CYBER CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN
Feb. 22, 2020 • Madhav Gawri
The Information Technological world has widened itself over the previous decades and has been the axis of today’s global, economical and technical development. This provides every user all the required information and the fastest mode of communication in a click. With the numerous advancements in the technology, the crimes associated with internet have also widened its roots. The cyber-crimes pose a great threat to individuals and women are a soft target to the same. In this paper the author tries to explore the Cyber-crimes and the online security vulnerabilities against women and how it is a challenge to security.
The Constitution Bench Of Supreme Court
Feb. 22, 2020 • Architi Batra
Constitution Bench is the bench of the Supreme Court of India which has five or more judges on it to resolve the dispute which involves a substantial question of Law.
Reservation In Jobs: A Juggernaut For Society
Feb. 22, 2020 • Architi Batra
“A job should be given to those who deserve it, not to those who demand it.”
Unequivocally a system of the reservation should provide reservations not on demand but on need i.e. people should stop being greedy and help the needy instead. Whereas India is a country where the reservation is granted on the bases of caste and the reason for making caste-based reservation system in India was for the upliftment of designated, disadvantaged groups who were faced with historical injustice.
Hence, this article also tries to make a point that Indian reservation system should change and where there is a need, then their help should be provided by serving the knowledge and offering reservation for education and making the person eligible for the job which he got with the benefit of the reservation without the required eligibility.
RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT
Feb. 21, 2020 • Madhav Gawri
The right to remain silent means right against self-incrimination when questioned. It is a legal right or legal principle which gives any individual the right to deny for answering the questions before or during a trial, hearing, or any other legal proceedings from court officials or law enforcement officials. The origin of this right is accredited to Sir Coke’s challenge to the ecclesiastical courts and their ex officio oath[1]. This article has tried to study the status of provisions in various countries like the U.S.A., Britain, and India and various cases. The researcher has relied upon the secondary sources of data viz., books (Constitution of India, Dr. J.N. Pandey Constitutional law of India), newspaper, research papers, blogs etc.
[1] Randall, Stephen H. (1955). "Sir Edward Coke and the Privilege against Self-Incrimination." p. 444. South Carolina Law Quarterly. University of South Carolina School of Law.
Populism and Judiciary
Feb. 19, 2020 • Architi Batra
Conflict Between Fundamental Rights And Personal Laws
Feb. 19, 2020 • Architi Batra
The purpose of this article is to focus on the relationship between personal laws and fundamental rights by explaining the meaning of ‘personal laws’ and the sheer variety of it which makes them applicable to the Indian population. And, therefore there is a need for the Uniform Civil Code. Finally, it discusses the decided cases of Supreme Court where the Fundamental Rights have prevailed over the personal laws of people from different religions and has declared many of their practices unconstitutional.
REPRESENTATION OF PEOPLE’S ACT 1951
Feb. 18, 2020 • Madhav Gawri