The Bench and the Bar
24 April 2015
Bar, Bench & Litigation
Bar, Bench & Litigation
Jadavpur University professor Ambikesh Mahapatra is still anxious a month after the Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional a controversial law that led to his arrest for e-mailing a cartoon mocking West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
22 April 2015
Bar, Bench & Litigation
Bar, Bench & Litigation
Night vision cameras and high mast lights, men patrolling the gates day and night. No, it’s not the latest edition of Hunger Games, but could be the future of Tis Hazari court complex soon enough.
22 April 2015
Bar, Bench & Litigation
Bar, Bench & Litigation
Advocate Aditya Barthakur has filed a public interest litigation (PIL) in the Bombay high court challenging the criminalisation of cannabis under Indian law, based on the fact that none of six government organs he queried had any idea about how the herb is harmful to the human body.