Fundamental rights are no gifts of the state, the Constitution only confirms their existence. Our freedom fighters and members of the Constituent Assembly who drafted free India’s Constitution attached great importance to fundamental rights. They did not subscribe to the fallacy that fundamental rights are a
The Supreme Court today dismissed the application filed by Common Cause seeking an independent court-monitored investigation into the Birla/Sahara payoff documents recovered by the Income Tax Department. The background was as follows: In October 2013 the CBI/IT Dept conducted simultaneous raids on the premises of Aditya Birla
The Supreme Court of India recently released its annual report on the Indian Judiciary for 2015-16. Running into nearly three hundred pages, the report reveals some interesting facts and figures with respect to the Supreme Court, the twenty four high courts and the subordinate courts under them. In
The year 2016 has been marked by the hostile interface between the judiciary and the government like never before over delay in judicial appointments. The genesis of this often overt hostility between the two constitutional branches of governance in the world's largest democracy started towards the
The Narendra Modi government has sent back at least 13 names recommended a second time by the Supreme Court collegium for appointment as Allahabad High Court judges, setting the stage for another round of confrontation between the executive and judiciary on the issue. Appointments made by