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Live-Streaming is the Best Substitute To Open Court Hearing
By Utkarsh Pandey, Advocate The provision of open-court hearing is provided in every democratic justice system in the world. It ensures that transparency is maintained in the court by letting the people know how effective the justice system is working. In India also Section 153 B of the Civil Procedure Code says that ‘the place…
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Only Artificial Intelligence (AI) can Transform Tottering Judicial System
Recently, a TV journalist asked former CJI Ranjan Gogoi why did he not go to court when a lady employee of the court levelled allegations against him, which he thought to be false?? Without batting an eyelid, he replied that who would go to the court to face further harassment? In a way, he echoed…
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Six Glorious Epochs of History: An Account of Wonderful India
suzerainty of Chanakya- Chandragupta: Invaders to Bite Dust Legendary Vinayak Damodar Savarkar aka Veer Savarkar was not only a revolutionary history maker for which he will always be remembered by posterity but was also a historian of great perspicacity. His book on ‘Indian War of Independence of 1857’ has already acquired the status of a…
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Adopt Ancient Indian Jurisprudence
By Parmanand Pandey Supreme Court Judge S Abdul Nazeer must be complimented for having spoken his mind about throwing the colonial legal system by adopting ancient Indian jurisprudence. We have seen that most of our lawyers and the judges are so obsessed with the western legal system that they even refuse to see that it…
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Unions will have to Adopt Out of Box Methods to Protect the Interest of Journalists
Unions will have to Adopt Out of Box Methods to Protect the Interest of Journalists The face of journalism has undergone a cataclysmic change in the last thirty years, The credit must be given to the technology, particularly to Google. Pre-Google journalism was slow but more credible, demanding and labour intensive but post-Google journalism is…
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‘Justice for the judge’: a Book That Defends Well
Book Review by Parmanand Pandey Very few judges in India have written their autobiographies and this is attributed as one of the reasons for the opacity in the judicial system of the country. Three autobiographies, which readily come to mind – ‘Roses in December’ by Justice MC Chagla, ‘My own…
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Kudos to ‘Voice of Lucknow’ and its Editor for Protecting the jobs and Salaries of Journalists
It is feared that two decades hence after there will be no newspapers or magazines in print. This report was published in the ‘Economist’ some three years ago much before the havoc of pandemic. The tentative year is given 2043. Covid 19 has practically pushed print journalism in a deep strait and has accelerated the…
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Meaningless Controversy over Sameer Wankhede’s Religion
By Utkarsh Pandey, Advocate For the last few weeks almost every day, we find one or the other charge is being traded between Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik and an officer of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Samir Wankhede. Nawab Malik says that Wankhede’s name also contains the middle name of Dawood, which he has deliberately…
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Sudden and Enigmatic Withdrawal of Farm Laws
Utkarsh Pandey, Advocate It is really an enigma shrouded in surprising mystery that why the prime minister has decided to suddenly withdraw three Farm Laws, that too, at a time when the farmers’ agitation has almost died down. It was practically gasping for breath for the last many months. There was no support coming for…
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Make Hindi the Language of the Supreme Court and High Courts
One will have to admire the honesty of the Chief Justice of India for his confession of being a non-sophisticated speaker in the English language. In fact, what he has said about himself is truer about most of the lawyers and judges of the country. Only a minuscule minority having had the privilege of getting…