Courts and Prosecutors A bill introduced in the Lok Sabha to amend the Code of Criminal Procedure would establish directorates of prosecution in the states with the director of prosecution...
Civil Liberties
State's Duty to Protect Dissent A G Noorani Contrary to popular belief the Indian constitution not only imposes on the state the negative duty
The present Indian statutes which sanction phone-tapping and mail interception are utterly unconstitutional. They lack the barest minimum safeguard of judicial warrant for the violation of privacy.
Making Ministers Pay Just as the law relating to public interest litigation has evolved only in the last decade, we are witnessing the evolution of case-law on ministers' liability in damages to the...
Suing the Police A G Noorani Like any other statutory body, the police can be made to perform its statutory duties by a simple writ of mandamus by the high court. While compensation cases will have...
burdened by the load of historicity. On April 24, Le Pen's share of the aggregate vote was more than, double that of the CPFs. You chance to meet a hoity-toity university don who in past seasons had...
Jayalalitha's Plaint A G Noorani How far will the Congress(I) not go in its misuse of the official machinery in its bid to stage a come-back in Tamil Nadu after 21 years once the election campaign...
International Centre for Protection of Human Rights INTERNATIONAL society evolved over centuries a body of rules governing relations among its members. International law regulates inter-statal...
basic realities of the modern world. In an epoch of imperialism you do not stand to gain anything by putting yourself in a position where you can be made out to be the enemy number one of third...
sensitive unclear instalations and then gradually include those of more strategic importance, along the lines of what Brazil and Argentina are already doing.
Facts are now available of the ill-treatment of Prakash Singh Badal during his detention. If a former chief minister, a public figure of eminence, could be so treated, what of the ordinary political...
Amnesty International's report on the killings by the PAC in and around Meerut in May is based substantially on Amnesty's own investigations and rely on documents such as complaints to the police and...
therefore, be the provision of employment to all who seek employment, of food, clothing and shelter, together with education and health, for the teeming millions of the underprivileged in our...
Deaths in Police Custody 'Encounters' in India A G Noorani The UN Economic and Social Council appointed a rapporteur in May 1986 to investigate and prepare a report on 'encounter' deaths. Sections...
would probably be the first casualty of these developments. There have always been tensions between the president and the army on the question. Now they would be even greater with one change in the...
