-The Indian Express Institutionalising a mandatory process of consultation and dialogue would democratise not just law-making, but the state itself The formal institutions of India's parliamentary democracy have provided little space for citizens' participation in the making of laws. This has not, however, prevented citizens and citizens' groups from making significant attempts to watch, critique and contribute to the process. In fact, in recent years, it is clear that the lack of...
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Reverse gear on electoral reforms -Jagdeep S Chhokar
-Live Mint Electoral reforms are not the forte of law ministers. But they can avoid damaging a battered system The resignation of Ashwani Kumar as law minister has brought cheer to a group of people who do not have much to do, at least directly, with the coal block allocation controversy. These are people working on electoral reforms. This is because ever since becoming law minister, Kumar had been consistent in his...
More »Jharkhand Special Police Officers caught in a spiral of violence and retribution-Anumeha Yadav
-The Hindu Khunti (Jharkhand): On the night of April 30, worshippers in the Raja Rani temple in Naurhi village in Adki block near Ranchi were singing, chanting and celebrating the new temple in their village when a group of CPI (Maoists) entered the temple and shot Dilip Acharya, the oldest of the three brothers who built the temple, dead as he lay asleep on the floor. The men then addressed...
More »HC acquits Pappu Yadav in Ajit Sarkar murder case
-The Hindu Patna: The Patna High Court on Friday acquitted the former Lok Sabha MP, Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav, and two others in the 1998 murder case of Communist Party of India (Marxist) MLA Ajit Sarkar. A division bench of Justices V.N. Sinha and Amaresh Kumar Lal overturned the February 2008 order of the lower court, which had convicted Mr. Yadav, Rajan Tiwari and Anil Kumar Yadav of murder and criminal...
More »Don’t play politics with cooperative societies, Supreme Court warns States-J Venkatesan
-The Hindu Supersession only in exceptional circumstances, not for extraneous considerations The Supreme Court on Thursday decried the tendency of State governments superseding elected cooperative societies for political or extraneous reasons. "Supersession of an elected managing committee/board is an exception and [can] be resorted to only in exceptional circumstances," said a Bench of Justices K.S. Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra. Sending a warning to the States, the Bench imposed Rs. 1 lakh in costs...
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