https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/need-to-end-the-sealed-cover-system/March 29, 2023, 12:14 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/DY-Chandrachud.jpgOthersThe Chief Justice of India Dr. D Y Chandrachud, while presiding over a three-judge bench, has once again reiterated his stand about the sealed cover issue. He said: “I am personally averse to sealed covers. What happens is, we see something he doe...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/need-to-end-the-sealed-cover-system/March 29, 2023, 12:14 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/DY-Chandrachud-300x169.jpgOthersThe Supreme Court of India is perhaps the most powerful court in the world. Since its establishment, the Court has made a remarkable contribution to protect the rule of law, constitutionalism, judicial independence, and democratic values in the co...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/need-to-end-the-sealed-cover-system/March 29, 2023, 12:14 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/DY-Chandrachud-300x169.jpgOthersThe Supreme Court of India is perhaps the most powerfulcourt in the world. Since its establishment, the Court has made a remarkable contribution to protect the rule of law, constitutional- ism, judicial independence, and democratic values in the c...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/need-to-end-the-sealed-cover-system/March 29, 2023, 12:14 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/DY-Chandrachud-300x169.jpgOthersWith the announcement of candidates for the office of the President of India, the battle for Raisina Hill has begun. The BJP has declared Mrs. Draupadi Murmu, a tribal leader and former Governor of Jharkhand, its presidential candidate while the o...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/need-to-end-the-sealed-cover-system/March 29, 2023, 12:14 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/DY-Chandrachud-300x169.jpgOthersLast week, India’s Pradhan Sewak, our beloved Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggested to the Chief Justices of all High Courts to set up district-level committees in their respective States, to be headed by the District Judges, to consider bail for...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/need-to-end-the-sealed-cover-system/March 29, 2023, 12:14 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/DY-Chandrachud-300x169.jpgOthers“The power to pardon is a part of the constitutional scheme, and we have no doubt, in our mind, that it should be so treated also in the Indian Republic. It has been reposed by the people through the Constitution in the Head of the State and enjoy...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/need-to-end-the-sealed-cover-system/March 29, 2023, 12:14 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/DY-Chandrachud-300x169.jpgOthersRecently, in Perarivalan’s case, a three-judge Bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice L. Nageswar Rao has rightly and timely invoked its extraordinary constitutional power, conferred upon it under Article 142 of the Constitution to protect t...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/legally-speaking/we-need-to-protect-womens-dignity-and-enact-the-uniform-civil-code/April 25, 2022, 4:06 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/93bdca97_8630_P_3_mr-1.jpgLegally SpeakingA few days ago, a Single Judge of the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court ruled that a divorced Muslim woman is entitled to claim maintenance from her former husband under Section 125 of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, even after the expi...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/reflections-of-a-president-of-india-on-mercy-petitions/April 18, 2022, 6:38 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Parliament-300x169.jpgOthersIt is submitted that the President of India has no discretion in deciding the mercy petitions and such pleas are decided by the Home Minister of the Central Government in actual constitutional practice. It is the Union’s Home Minister who sends hi...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/need-to-end-the-sealed-cover-system/March 29, 2023, 12:14 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/DY-Chandrachud-300x169.jpgOthersA few days ago, while speaking at a National Conference on Mediation and Information Technology, organized by the High Court of Gujarat, senior Supreme Court judge Justice Dr. D. Y. Chandrachud said that the Indian judiciary continues to be “feuda...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/need-to-end-the-sealed-cover-system/March 29, 2023, 12:14 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/DY-Chandrachud-300x169.jpgOthersThe Moving Finger writes and, having writ; Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit. Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line; Nor all your Tears wash out a word of it. Line of poetry sometimes epitomize reams of legal prose. Justice, like equality an...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/justice-h-r-khanna-a-great-defender-of-rule-of-law-human-rights-dignity/February 26, 2022, 8:22 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/69ca44af_4993_P_4_mr-1.jpgOthersDuring Emergency, it was Justice Khanna alone who refused to give in before a dictatorial government led by then Prime Minister, Mrs Indira Gandhi. In the ADM Jabalpur case, the majority judges upheld the preventive detention of thousands of peopl...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/need-to-end-the-sealed-cover-system/March 29, 2023, 12:14 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/DY-Chandrachud-300x169.jpgOthers‘Our Constitution is a constructive one. There is no room for absolutism. There is no space for anarchy. Sometimes it is argued, though, in a different context, that one can be a “rational anarchist”, but the said term has no term in the constitut...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/need-to-end-the-sealed-cover-system/March 29, 2023, 12:14 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/DY-Chandrachud-300x169.jpgOthersThe Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu passed the NEET exemption Bill once again without accepting the suggestions offered by Governor N Ravi a few weeks ago. The Governor had returned the Bill to the Assembly for its reconsideration after keeping...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/need-to-end-the-sealed-cover-system/March 29, 2023, 12:14 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/DY-Chandrachud-300x169.jpgOthersMany years ago, Justice V. R. Krishna Iyer, a celebrated jurist, had criticized the collegium system in one of his articles published in The Hindu on 18 August 2012. This is what he had said in his piece: “Thus, today we have a curious creation wi...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/need-to-end-the-sealed-cover-system/March 29, 2023, 12:14 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/DY-Chandrachud-300x169.jpgOthersOn the great occasion of Guru Purab, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken a great decision to announce the repeal of three controversial farm laws in the forthcoming session of Parliament. Hundreds of thousands of farmers were protesting against...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/need-to-end-the-sealed-cover-system/March 29, 2023, 12:14 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/DY-Chandrachud-300x169.jpgOthers“Courts must be alive to the need to safeguard the public interest in ensuring that the due enforcement of the criminal law is not obstructed. The fair investigation of crime is an aid to it. Equally, it is the duty of courts across the spectrum-t...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/need-to-end-the-sealed-cover-system/March 29, 2023, 12:14 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/DY-Chandrachud-300x169.jpgOthersThe appointment of the Advocate General (AG) in Punjab has triggered a debate about the constitutional role and powers of the Advocate General in the state administration. As per a well-established constitutional convention and practice, the Chief...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/legally-speaking/analysing-presidents-role-in-making-judicial-appointments/September 28, 2021, 4:11 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/supreme-court-300x169.jpgLegally SpeakingThe President issues the formal warrant of appointments of judges of the Supreme Court and High Courts as per Articles 124 and 217 of the Constitution respectively to complete the constitutional formalities.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/need-to-end-the-sealed-cover-system/March 29, 2023, 12:14 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/DY-Chandrachud-300x169.jpgOthersLast week, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India comprising Justices Dr. D. Y. Chandrachud, L. Nageswar Rao, and S. Ravindra Bhat issued a strong warning to the Central and State Governments not to curtail the freedom of speech and exp...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/need-to-end-the-sealed-cover-system/March 29, 2023, 12:14 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/DY-Chandrachud-300x169.jpgOthersA three-judge bench of the Supreme Court led by Dr. D Y Chandrachud, and comprising Justices L. Nageswar Rao, and S. Ravindra Bhat has passed an interim order in a Suo Motu Writ Petition (Civil) No. 3 of 2021 yesterday directing the Central and St...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/need-to-end-the-sealed-cover-system/March 29, 2023, 12:14 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/DY-Chandrachud-300x169.jpgOthersLast week, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India headed by Chief Justice S. A. Bobde, and comprising Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and, Surya Kant laid down a timeline for the Central Government to approve the appointments of the High Co...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/need-to-end-the-sealed-cover-system/March 29, 2023, 12:14 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/DY-Chandrachud-300x169.jpgOthersDr. B. R. Ambedkar, the Chief Architect of the Indian Constitution, had once said, “If I was asked to name any particular article in this Constitution as the most important-an article without which this Constitution would be a nullity, I could not...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/legally-speaking/lieutenant-governors-government-versus-cms-government-in-delhi/March 31, 2021, 5:57 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/15389cbc_2152_P_4_mr-1.jpgLegally SpeakingThe Delhi Bill was passed by Parliament in great haste. It is difficult to understand the hasty legislative action of the Central government. Many Opposition parties had requested the Union government to refer the bill to a select committee of Par...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/legally-speaking/application-of-the-seniority-convention-in-the-appointment-of-the-chief-justice-of-india/March 23, 2021, 8:59 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Webp.net-resizeimage-21.jpgLegally SpeakingThe Supreme Court collegium deals with appointments of judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts including the Chief Justices of the High Courts, though it has nothing to do with the appointment of the Chief Justice of India. This matter is ...