-The Hindu Her murder is an attempt to kill an idea What killed Gauri Lankesh? This is not the same question as “who killed Gauri Lankesh?” This is deeper and a more rewarding question. In any case, this is the only question we can meaningfully answer in the public domain. A murder involves four categories of culpability: those who carry out assassination, those who conspire, those who encourage or benefit from it,...
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Supreme Court curbs on states' land largesse to politicians, bureaucrats -Amit Anand Choudhary
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: State governments may not be able to allot residential plots in cities to serving and former MPs, MLAs, bureaucrats, journalists and judges of their choice by exercising their discretionary power as the Supreme Court on Wednesday decided to frame guidelines for allotting public land at subsidised rates. Expressing concern over state governments' decision to allocate plots to well off people while lakhs of poor people do...
More »Justice (retd) KS Puttaswamy, original petitioner in the right to privacy case, interviewed by Avinash Bhat (The Hindu)
-The Hindu Original petitioner welcomes Supreme Court verdict on privacy The original petitioner in the right to privacy case is a happy man after Thursday’s verdict from the Supreme Court. In 2012, Justice (retd) K.S. Puttaswamy had approached the apex court as petitioner in a case which has seen several landmark judgments. While the Court will still hear the case on the use of Aadhaar, the judgment by the nine-judge bench delivered...
More »Right to Privacy: Fundamental rights redefined -Alok Prasanna Kumar
-The Indian Express From seeing them as distinct compartments against which to test laws, to understanding them as a cumulative whole, to now seeing them as boundaries which guarantee the dignity of a free individual in a modern republic, the courts have come a long way. The right to privacy is not just a common law right, not just a legal right, not just a fundamental right under the Constitution. It is...
More »Privacy impact on beef -R Balaji
-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Supreme Court today said that yesterday's nine-judge verdict declaring privacy a fundamental right could have a bearing on the Maharashtra government's ban on the slaughter of bulls and bullocks last year. "Of course, the judgment will have an impact on these cases.... If necessary, we may refer these cases to a larger bench," the bench of Justices A.K. Sikri and Ashok Bhushan told a batch of petitioners. "I...
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