Thirty years ago, nobody could have accurately predicted the job market of today. The intervening technological progress must be blamed or credited for it. However, we seem to be able today to satisfactorily predict the job market we will have thirty years hence – plenty of machines and Artificial I...
Blogs by K.V.Dhananjay
You might have heard a great deal in the media about the outrage expressed by Supreme Court Justice Chelameswar. His outrage was expressed in his letter to his colleagues –the judges of the Supreme Court. Now, what is this outrage about? Well, let us start with the appointment of judges to the High ...
The following is a text of my representation sent to the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India and to every member of the Parliament of India (790 members). The Central Government should act now to weed out corruption within a section of our higher judiciary. And, the Parliament should act urgently and br...
In a nutshell : Nearly five years ago, a petition was filed in the Supreme Court. It questioned the constitutionality and legality of the Aaadhaar scheme of the Central Government. Today, that case is still undecided. Two weeks ago, a 9 judge bench of the Supreme Court heard argument and reserved ju...
Why isn’t Narendra Modi suing Rahul Gandhi for defamation – if the charge is untrue? The Congress is the principal opposition party in the House of the People. Rahul Gandhi is its Vice-President. Three days ago, he made a highly damaging allegation of personal corruption against the Prime Minister o...
There comes a time for redemption? Ramesh K.C was a driver with L Bheema Naik, KAS, a Tahsildar earlier and now, the Special Land Acquisition Officer at Bangalore, Karnataka. This driver, Ramesh K.C. committed suicide on 6-Dec-16. He left behind a suicide note, however. The police have registered a ...
On November 8 th , Mr.Narendra Modi’s Central Government launched a sudden and a historically unprecedented demonetisation of Rs.500/Rs.1000 notes. The preparation until then was said to be fundamentally ‘secretive’ and known to none except the Prime Minister and the Governor of the Reserve Bank. Al...
Advocate K.V.Dhananjay raises a question here; a question that he was asked – men perform the role of priests in Hindu temples; women have been traditionally and customarily barred from this role. Do women have a constitutional right to demand assignment of priest roles to them? Of course, in Hindu ...
Advocate K.V.Dhananjay argues here that a number of judges, including judges of the Supreme Court, have invented or imagined a crime that simply does not exist in the penal statute at all; these judges have been ignorantly punishing young men who have had sex with a woman on a false promise of marry...
‘Mother tongue’ education is great on paper but highly impracticable in practice. 21-Feb is celebrated as ‘Mother Tongue’ day around the world. Advocate K.V.Dhananjay speaks here about ‘Mother Tongue’ desired as a compulsory medium of instruction by scholars and politicians vis-à-vis the growing pre...
‘With due respects’, ‘With the greatest of respects’, ‘In deep reverence’ and ‘In all and every humility’, it is necessary now to say - “One ignorantly given SC judgment is wreaking havoc across India”. The prefatory salutations are dispensed with in the rest of this piece to ease reading. The reade...
What were the past judgments of our future Lokayukta? Supreme Court Advocate K.V.Dhananjay points to increasing tension in several States in the matter of appointment of their Lokayuktas. Dhananjay says, if one were to raise the question, ‘What were the past judgments of our future Lokayuktas’, almo...
A terrifying judgment from a High Court in a corruption case! Supreme Court advocate, K.V.Dhananjay points to a recent judgment of the Karnataka High Court that altogether quashed a corruption trial involving former Chief Minister of Karnataka, B.S.Yedyurappa (BJP) and current Energy Minister of Kar...
Supreme Court Advocate K.V.Dhananjay points to a criminal procedural provision that has horribly gone wrong in India. Section 53-A of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 allows the police to use reasonable force to subject a person accused of rape to a medical examination. The scope of such a medical ...
Supreme Court Advocate K.V.Dhananjay asks if it is appropriate for dissenting Justice Chelameswar to participate with the majority-judges in the ‘Collegium Reformation’ hearings set for 3rd November, 2015. He says that Justice Chelameswar’s participation in it could muddle and confuse his dissenting...
Supreme Court Advocate K.V.Dhananjay argues that even young children have constitutional rights and that they deserve protection from being tutored about flawed scientific theories in their school curriculum. In this piece, Dhananjay argues that the Darwin’s Theory of Evolution is inappropriate for ...
Mr.Modi’s announcement of Bose files disclosure is a hoax? Supreme Court advocate Mr.K.V.Dhananjay argues that the Prime Minister’s announced future disclosure of Subhash Chandra Bose files appears to be a mere political gimmick. And, he suggests that the concerned lawyers could come together to str...
Supreme Court advocate KV Dhananjay argues that if the Supreme Court would strike down criminal defamation as unconstitutional on the ground that it is an unreasonable restraint on freedom of speech, it must also specify on what will happen to all pending criminal defamation cases. Should the compla...
K.V.Dhananjay, an advocate at the Supreme Court of India points to growing ignorance among High Court judges of even the most basic provisions of our Constitution. Shocking ignorance of our Constitution! Shockingly, some High Court Judges are writing in their judgments that they are wholly bound by ...
The SC Bench hearing the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) should simply strike it down on technical grounds and not venture into its merits this time. The collegium theory is headache-inducing! The theory that gave rise to the collegium system for appointment of judges to the higher ...