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Section 29A, Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Ordinance, 2015 – An Overzealous Effort to Fast Track Arbitration in India

“Justice delayed is justice denied but justice hurried is justice buried” In the developing world, India would probably be one of the first countries to have installed a fixed time limit on the completion of an arbitration proceeding. Section 29A of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 as inserted by

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Intolerance in India: An Unending Saga

We open the newspaper everyday to find numerous instances of social injustice and criminal offences. However, a sudden uprising of a “new social evil” in the guise of religious intolerance in the country has shaken its secular pillars. Taking a short tour into the glorious history India, it can be

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Prior Sanction Necessary Before Issuing Summons to Public Servants

The Supreme Court in the case of Prof. N.K. Ganguly v. CBI New Delhi, on 19-11-2015, while Addressing issue where summons were issued to the public servants without obtaining sanction from the Central Government, the division bench of V. Gopala Gowda and Amitava Roy, J.J. held that, where a public

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Scrap Quota in Higher Education Institutions

Supreme Court in the case of Dr. Sandeep s/o Sadashivrao Kansurkar v. Union of India (WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) NO.444 OF 2015) asked the Central Government to take necessary steps to end reservation system in all institutions of higher education in national interest.  Regretting that some “privilege remains unchanged” even after

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