Electoral bonds protect donors

Centre defends scheme in SC by arguing that Electoral bonds scheme allows anonymity to political donors to protect them from political victimization.

Opening collegium to RTI will destroy judicial independence

AG submits before Supreme Court on behalf of its information officer that Opening up the “highly-sensitive” correspondence of the Supreme Court’s collegium and its workings to the Right to Information (RTI) regime would make judges and the government “shy” and “destroy” judicial independence.

The principle and procedure in Lokpal

The Supreme Court’s ultimatum to the Centre to appointment a Lokpal within a given time frame, and the subsequent appointment of the first Lokpal in the country, is to be welcomed.

Ensuring access to justice

The justice system in any democracy is set up, under the Constitution to serve the public without fear or favour, affection or ill-will.

A blow against Article 370

On March 1, 2019, the 77th and 103rd constitutional amendments were extended to Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) by a presidential order, with the concurrence of the J&K Governor.

ECI about Electoral bond scheme

The Election Commission of India (ECI) has told the Supreme Court that the electoral bonds, wreck transparency in political funding. In its affidavit submitted to the Supreme Court, the EC pointed to the amendments made to key laws, with dangerous consequences.

Liquor, cash, freebies swing votes: ADR survey

A nationwide survey involving more than 2.7 lakh people revealed that for 41.34% respondents, distribution of liquor, cash and freebies was an important factor behind voting for a particular candidate in an election, according to the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) Survey.

Justice and the manifesto

The Supreme Court in 2012 has held that it is the constitutional duty of the government to provide the citizens of the country with judicial infrastructure and means of access to justice.