Shruti Mishra and Riya Khanna Recently, the PMO refused to answer a query filed under the RTI Act, 2005 (hereinafter “the Act”) sparking a rage of commentary on whether the PMO’s refusal […]
PM-CARES fund and RTI ACT, 2005: Hide & Seek between Governance and Transparency?
Open Jails: The Unexplored Alternative
Aditya Saraswat The Sanganer Open Prison at Jaipur. The recent court directions with respect to decongesting prisons during the pandemic, necessitate revisiting Open Jails as a feasible alternative. Introduction In the last […]
A Case for Vicarious Liability for Sexual Harassment at Workplaces
Aparna Sojan Employers should be held vicariously liable for sexual harassments that are engendered by employment. On 30th January 2020, a judgment delivered by EWHC was lauded for advancing the jurisprudence surrounding […]
Non-Banking Finance in India – Regulatory challenges and concerns
Bhavya Arora The Commercial Paper exposure of NBFCs has fallen from 38.2% to 21.2% from Oct’18 to Oct’19. The funds parked by mutual funds in NBFCs have also fallen during the same […]
COVID19-XX: The Pandemic and the Shutdown in Kashmir
Kavya Mathur & Varsha Raman This is the 20th post of our COVID19 series Introduction Almost all major world economies, including India, are at a standstill due to imposition of covid […]
Contribute for Migrant Workers’ Relief
The Backbone of our Economy needs our help. Please support LSPR’s donation campaign. In the past few weeks, we have all observed the tribulations which migrants of our country have been undergoing. […]
SC’s interpretation of “perversity” in Seamec v. OIL: Increasing the subjectivity in challenge of arbitral awards
Ragini Agarwal Widening interpretation of “perversity” of Awards makes the exercise under s 34 subjective. In South East Asia Marine Engineering and Constructions Ltd. v. Oil India Ltd.[1] (SEAMEC) decided on May […]
Protecting the Hands that Heal: The Urgent Need for a Central Legislation
Siddhant Ranjan & Kartikey Gaur The Ordinance to amend the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 highlights the need to bring back discourse on the Draft Bill criminalizing violence against healthcare workers Doctors are […]
No Reason Why: Obliteration of Anglo-Indian Representation from the Indian Parliament
Vishwajeet Deshmukh In December 2019, the Indian Parliament passed the 126th Constitutional Amendment Bill, 2019 thereby placing the 104th Constitutional Amendment Act 2019. The Bill extends the reservation for Scheduled Caste (“SC”) […]
Voluntary but Unlawfully Mandatory: Aarogya Setu App in Bail Orders
Aparajita Kaul Mandatory imposition of the Aarogya Setu app as a condition in bail orders is unlawful and raises a concern regarding the courts’ discretion in conditional bails. The government-propagated Aarogya Setu […]
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