Citizens for Justice and Peace
The best of Indian courts in 2020 CJP takes a look at various court orders that positively shaped human rights’ jurisprudence
28-Dec-2020
As the year 2020 draws to a close, here is an annual round up of orders and judgements of India’s constitutional courts — High Courts and the Supreme Court of India. In a month by month look, CJP brings you a calendar of the year gone by: through judgements and orders that paved new paths…
Role of courts in delayed justice: Article 21 violation An analysis of the flawed mechanism of reserving judgments and the time lapse till pronouncement
06-Nov-2020
Law may or may not be an a**; but in India it is a snail – it moves at a pace which would be regarded as unduly slow in a community of snails.” -Nani Palkhivala The Indian legal system is infamous for its backlog of cases, high pendency levels and delayed justice. As of…
Understanding the right to default bail It is an extension of Article 21: Right to Life and Personal Liberty
16-Oct-2020
The Supreme Court of India has held that there is a fundamental right granted to an accused person to be released on bail once the conditions of the first proviso to Section 167(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure are fulfilled. Moreover, life and personal liberty of an individual must be paramount. The three-judge Bench…
Rights of the Dead: Do they have any in India? Revisiting the sensitive subject in wake of the Hathras victim's rushed cremation
30-Sep-2020
Soon after the death of Dr. Simon Hercules in Chennai and the subsequent brouhaha over his last rights, where he was denied a dignified funeral, CJP’s sister publication Sabrang India had delved deep into the subject of rights of the dead in India. Today, we feel the need to revisit this in wake of the…
Does the Constitution stand with our farmers and their rights? A closer look at safeguards available to the agricultural community
25-Sep-2020
The country is presently engulfed in peaceful protests by farmers, a community that has largely known to be organised yet silent; a community that toils hard to drive the farming sector and to ensure food security for the countrymen. According to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural…
How dangerous is the CAA + NRC? Educate, Discuss and Protest the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019, NPR and NRC.
02-Jan-2020
Related: Why the CAA must be opposed, because it discriminates Advocate Mihir Desai’s point by point rebuttal of the GOI’s FAQ on CAA/ NPR-NRC NPR-NRC – FAQs