Having completed little more than a year as the 45th Chief Justice of India, Justice Dipak Misra retired on 2nd October 2018. Justice Misra had taken charge as CJI on 28th August 2017. At the farewell ceremony organized by the Supreme Court Bar Association the outgoing Chief Justice of India addressed his judicial career as “fully […]
Mob Lynching: Transgressing all forms of Humanity and Democracy
Lynching can be seen as a premeditated killing by a group for an alleged offence without any legal trial. Lynching is a form of violence in which a mob under the pretext of administering justice executes a presumed offender by inflicting torture. The term lynching is derived from the name of Charles Lynch (1736-96) who […]
Legal Voyage of Section 377 of Indian Penal Code 1860
The bare act text of section 377 of Indian Penal Code is as under: “377. Unnatural offences—Whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall […]