Constitutional Law and Orientation Committee, SLCU.

13/11/2019

Quiz (legal and general) on the 3rd of December 2019

12/11/2019

Extempore on 3rd December 2019

12/11/2019

Debate (Theme: Constitutional law) on the 3rd of December, 2019

20/04/2019

A dissent in a court of last resort is an appeal to the brooding spirit of law, to the intelligence of a Future Day when a later decision may possibly correct the error into which the dissenting justice believes the Court to have been betrayed.

The Jamaican Supreme Court while dealing with the constitutionality of NIRA, analysis and quotes Justice DY Chandrachud's dissenting Judgement in Aadhar Case.

https://barandbench.com/aadhaar-jamaican-supreme-court-national-biometric-identification-system-chandrachud/

A Must Read for Everyone!
Authored by Adv. GAUTAM BHATIA

aadhaar: The Afterlife of the Aadhaar Dissent: The Jamaican Supreme Court Strikes Down a National Biometric Identification System by Gautam Bhatia

19/03/2019

The value of Free Speech and Expression gets strengthened when individuals capably use it to arrive at different opinions - informed, effective and judicious. Did the Constitution Assembly members freely exercise this right without fear or favour while deliberating on important constitutional matters or were they under the system of whips issued by party high command.

Give a read to it and comment whether India should have had or should adopt a different form of Government.

Credits: Bhanu Dhamija

https://theprint.in/opinion/indias-constitution-makers-nehru-patel-ambedkar-were-divided-on-parliamentary-system/182994/ #

Neither Ambedkar nor Patel was in favour of a strictly parliamentary system.

22/02/2019

The year of 2018 saw two CJIs - Former CJI Dipak Misra and Current CJI Ranjan Gogoi. The Constitution Bench headed by Justice Misra delivered most of the significant judgements in relation to Fundamental Rights.

Rights in Review, an annual journal prepared and published by Centre for Law and Policy Research reflects the journey of the Supreme Court in protection of Fundamental Rights from the cases dealt in the previous year.

Credits: Live Law in conversation with Ms. Jayna Kothari

What were some of the issues of concern which the Supreme Court should have dealt with or should deal with. Let us know in the comment box below.

'In 2017, we can see that while Article 19 freedoms were not that strongly prominent, Article 25 Right to Freedom of Religion protection was very strong', Jayna Kothari, Editor, Rights in Review...

21/02/2019

Capital Punishment applies only to rarest of rare cases as enshrined by Supreme Court Constitutional Bench in Bachan Singh v. State of Punjab. The ST & SC Prevention of Atrocities Act provides mandatory death sentence in case of willfully giving and fabricating false evidence resulting in conviction and ex*****on of an innocent member of ST & SC Community. A PIL has been filed by Daksh Kadian a student at NLSIU, Bangalore contending that section 3(2)(i) is in violation of Article 14 and 21 of Constitution of India.

Credits: Aditi Singh

Comment below and let us know what alternatives should be adopted.

Punjab & Haryana High Court has issued notice in a challenge to Constitutionality of mandatory death penalty prescribed by Section 3(2)(i) of SC/ST Act

20/02/2019

What are the indicia for treating an educational institution as a minority institution? Would the educational institution be regarded as a minority educational institution because it is established by person(s) belonging to a religious or linguistic minorty or administered by person(s) belonging to linguistic or religious minority. While this question remains largely unanswered and is now pending before the Supreme Court, let's understand how it has been been adjudicated so far for Aligarh Muslim University.

Let us know in the comment section below what criteria should be adopted for granting the minority status to an institution.

Credits: Anthony Rozario

Why is the AMU not a Minority Educational Institution, despite being labelled so by the 1981 Amendment?

19/02/2019

The Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019 provides for according Indian Citizenship to Hindus, Jains, Buddhists, Christians, Sikhs and Parsis from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan after seven years of stay in India even if they do not possess any document.

After an unsuccessful attempt to table the Bill at Rajya Sabha and it's important to understand the constitutional violations which it attempted to and the why it is a victory for people of Assam!

Credits: Angshuman Choudhury and Jonmani Das.

There has been much criticism on how the Citizenship Amendment Bill, by selectively picking six religious denominations, violates the core principles of equality before the law (Article 14) embedded in India’s Constitution.

19/02/2019

On September 18, 1949, the Constituent Assembly of India deliberated on various names for the yet to be born Indian nation - Bharat, Hindustan, Hind, Bharatbhumi, Bharatvarsh. Ultimately, Constitution of India became official and called upon as 'India that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States" under Article 1(1).

Recently, Justice Mohammad Yakoob Mir of Meghalaya High Court, says that India should have been declared as a Hindu Rashtra.

Let us know in the comment section below whether this is affecting the secular character of India.

Justice S.R. Sen invoked Partition, the related bloodshed and many other historical issues to ask the Modi govt to ‘save this country and its people’.

26/11/2018

Constitution Assembly trusted in the wisdom of future generations to expand the frontiers of Freedom and Liberty, Justice and Fraternity, Fairness and Equality. It trusted in future generations to not just amend the Constitution's text but to constructively reimagine and reinterpret for changing times. If we continue true to this spirit, the Constitution can survive India for all times to come.

26 November, Constitution Day!!

Credits: Vineeth Krishna

Indian Constitution is the sole flower in South Asia’s constitutional graveyard.

24/11/2018

The Press Conference by the Judges of the Apex Court was a huge and a red-letter day in India's history. Former Supreme Court Judge Justice Jasti Chelameswar while speaking at a seminar opens up about Medical College Bribery Case, Boycotting Collegium Meetings and the Historic Press Conference.

Credits: Manu Sebastian

Justice Chelameswar opens up on the explosive events during the last phase of his term like the Medical College bribery case, collegium meetings