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LexQuest 2nd National Essay Writing Competition, 2015 [Register by 30th October, Submit Essay by 4th November]

After accomplishing LexQuest 1st National Essay Writing Competition, 2014 with flying colours, LexQuest proudly brings to you the LexQuest 2nd National Essay Writing Competition, 2015. The world is increasingly getting dependent on technology, and like any other pillar of the Government, it is indispensable for the judicial machinery to keep up

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Libertatem News Network September 22, 2015 No Comments

Peace Deal With The NSCN-IM: A Historic Beginning

On August, 3, 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, signed a historic peace agreement with the Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland. The agreement has taken place between the NSCN-IM and the Government of India, headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh and the National Security Advisor Ajit

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Libertatem News Network September 21, 2015 No Comments

Ecocide as a ‘Crime against Peace’

One cannot be really hopeful of the peaceful subsistence of humanity, if earth itself is going to have an ailing existence in the future. There is, thus, much doubt cast on the current international and municipal environmental regime, on its efficacy and implementation. There are countless international legal instruments in

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Libertatem News Network September 21, 2015 No Comments

A Crises for Secularism: Critical Analysis on the Recent Killings of Bangladeshi Bloggers

Bangladesh in the present year has seen a seething attack on its right to free speech and expression by the extremist group, allegedly Ansarullah Bangla Team, in which 4 bloggers namely –Avijit Roy, Washiqur Rahman, Ananta Bijoy Das, and Niloy Chakraborty have been killed. These are not the first instances

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Libertatem News Network September 21, 2015 No Comments

Hanging Reformation: A deeper look into the Yakub Memon saga

This case has been aptly phrased to be “more about philosophy than about law”. Yakub Memon, the lone convict of the 1993 blast, had been rightly given all the legal options that were there to be exhausted before he was finally hanged on his 53rd birthday (30th July 2015) at

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Libertatem News Network September 15, 2015 No Comments

Use of any Other Language other than English in Court proceedings, Prohibited

Case Law: Manish Kanaiyalal Gupta v. State of Gujarat In the case of Manish Kanaiyalal Gupta v. State of Gujarat decided on 8 July 2015 before Gujarat High Court whereby the applicant has filed for a criminal revision under section 397 r/w 401 CrPC. The applicant herein decided to appear

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Libertatem News Network August 31, 2015 No Comments

Home Ministry directed to disclose FIR and Charge Sheet filed by Delhi Police on Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi

Case Law: Hemanta Panda v. National Archives of India, 2015 SCC OnLine CIC 2125, decided on 25.06.2015 The Central Information Commission (CIC) directed that the FIR and charge sheet filed by Delhi Police on the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi must be disclosed disposing of an appeal filed by an RTI activist in the

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Libertatem News Network August 31, 2015 No Comments

Compromise or Settlement in Cases of Rape is not a Viable Solution

Case Law: State of M.P. v. Madanlal, 2015 SCC OnLine SC 579, decided on 01.07.2015 Coming down heavily upon the laxity observed by the Madhya Pradesh High Court in exercising its appellate jurisdiction in the present case wherein the High Court, without proper appreciation of the evidence and considering the compromise entered between the rape

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Libertatem News Network August 31, 2015 No Comments

Parley with Ms. Jyoti Shekar, Senior Associate, Legasis Partners

A person who possesses a rich and diverse work experience is probably the best equipped to tender advice to fresh law graduates seeking counsel over choosing a career path. With an experience of having worked in LPOs, law firms, as an in-house counsel and a legal analyst, Ms. Jyoti Shekar,

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Libertatem News Network August 31, 2015 No Comments

Direction given to stop hill-cutting for construction of a resort-cum-hotel at Lonavala

Case Law: NAB Lions Home for Aging Blind v. Kumar Resorts, 2015 SCC OnLine NGT 6 NGT has given another order in response to its strict-no-policy to deforestation. NGT while restraining Kumar Resorts, Amusement Pvt. Ltd. and Dhiraj Kumar Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd. from hill-cutting for constructing a resort-cum hotel on

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Libertatem News Network August 28, 2015 No Comments

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