Vijay Simha (vijsimha@gmail.com) was executive editor of Tehelka.com and Financial World. He is now an independent journalist based out of New Delhi. The manner of dismissal of the interim appeals filed by Common Cause in the Birla–Sahara Papers case triggers a host of questions, legal and
Yogendra Yadav The Kalikho Pul suicide note needs to be investigated at the topmost level Mar 1, 2017 A RECENTLY unseated CM commits suicide. He leaves a suicide note naming top state and national politicians and some judges. The allegations are not probed. Some months later, tax authorities
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 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
A very good morning to all of you. I am extremely honoured to be here for the Justice Krishna Iyer memorial lecture of 2016, and I would like to thank Justice Ramakrishnan and Mr Sahasranaman for having invited me on behalf of the memorial