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September 2007

Some puzzles in the latest Pak SC verdict

By a short order 6 judges out of a 9 judge bench of the Pakistan Supreme Court have held the action challenging the eligibility of Gen. Musharaf for the Presidential polls to be not maintainable.
Firstly, what is puzzling here is that Justice Chaudhari (CJ) did not head the bench. One would have expected the Chief [...]

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UPA - [U]nconstitutionalism [P]erfected [A]gain

As Offstumped points out, the BJP’s National Executive has its task cut out as for the political goal it has to achieve i.e. to find a way at regaining lost ground.
Commentaries on constitutional law in India would have been a quarter of their size if the Congress had not been in power for decades in this country and [...]

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UPA-Left ‘family business’ worth a challenge in the SC

Offstumped  and Acorn have rightly raised the issue of the UPA-Left committee sitting over the nuclear deal as some kind of a final decision maker on the country’s stand on the nuclear deal.
Isn’t the panel ["UPA-Left joint mechanism on nuclear deal"] itself extra-constitutional ? It is not a mere political meeting though they seem to [...]

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The 377 verdict & the Kusum Ingots fairy tale

One of the most common query doing the rounds on blogs and otherwise after the Naaz Foundation verdict has been the applicability of the said decision outside Delhi.
The mainstream media especially the TOI through Manoj Mitta has made one and all aware of para 22 (SCC) of Kusum Ingots which reads thus:
22. The Court must have [...]

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