Tag: fundamental rights

Introduction This severability doctrine is also known as the separability doctrine. The phrase “to the extent of the inconsistency or contravention” makes it clear that when some of the provisions of a statute become unconstitutional due to inconsistency with fundamental rights, the courts will treat only the repugnant provision of…

Introduction Administrative Directions are instructions or rules given by higher authorities to subordinate authorities in the lack of a rule or statute related to a specific subject, or to compensate for or cover gaps in existing laws, therefore establishing better standards or platforms to address difficulties. Administrative directions are also…

Introduction: In Chapter III of the Indian Constitution, some fundamental rights are enshrined. However, the framers of the Constitution realised that just declaring such rights does not guarantee their implementation. Because they must be enforceable in a court of law in reality. The only reason they provided for a guaranteed remedy…

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), has recently released a report determining the need for accessibility of minority schools in the nation. These students are not specified to be receiving the equal benefit of RTE as others. Moreover, the report namely ‘Impact of Exemption under Article 15(5) concerning Article 21A of the constitution of India on Education of Children in Minority communities’, specified that a study has been carried out on the same issue. And, it further recommended that minority schools should be considered under the domain of RTE and SSA, 

by: Madhvi Patidar
Legal services include providing free legal aid to those weaker sections of the society who fall within the purview of section 12 of the legal services authority act, 1987. Free legal aid is the provision of free legal services in civil and criminal matters for those poor and marginalised people who cannot afford the services of a lawyer for the conduct of a case or a legal proceeding in any court, tribunal or authority.

Punjab University, Chandigarh’s Department of Laws coordinated a three-day National Seminar on “Law Towards Environmental Protection” in 1984. The class pulled in 55 participants from all over India.

Indian Constitution provides for three lists for distribution of legislative and executive power between the Centre and the States.

The main purpose of a speedy trial in the criminal justice system is to ensure justice to the victim and protect the accused from unnecessary incarceration.

Can Constitutional Amendment is “law”? This question seems very easy, but every easy question doesn’t guarantee to be simple as well.

The death penalty, also known as capital punishment is a legal process where the state sends a death row inmate to execution as a punishment.

Arresting someone means an act of seizing someone and taking them into custody usually because he or she commits some type of crime.

Human Trafficking may enclose providing a spouse in the context of forced marriage or for the extraction of organs or tissues, which includes surrogacy and ovary removal.