🌅 #Quotes

"The honest policeman rigs the evidence to convict the man he knows is guilty. Perhaps it is the only way he can get a conviction. The dishonest policeman rigs the evidence to convict a man he knows is innocent."

--- Sir John Woodburn,
(Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal)

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Time To Think Of National-Level Judicial Recruitment Instead Of State-Based Selections : CJI DY Chandrachud
https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/time-to-think-of-national-level-judicial-recruitment-instead-of-state-based-selections-cji-dy-chandrachud-268271

🤫 Something big is coming within a couple of years....

🌟🪄 Centenary of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s enrolment as an advocate | Supreme Court of India | India
https://www.sci.gov.in/centenary-of-dr-b-r-ambedkars-enrolment-as-an-advocate/#

B.R. AMBEDKAR BRIEF

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Landmark Judgments from Page 219

New flag unveiled

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Waqf Act,1995: A Tool given to Waqf Boards to snatch the property of Anyone ?
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/myview/waqf-act1995-a-tool-given-to-waqf-boards-to-snatch-the-property-of-hindus/

🌐📜 This Act is in News—

The Above Article is Based on Common Topic on Powers of Waqf. (Thought provoking)

This Article is on Recent Changes bought by Parliament

https://forumias.com/blog/the-waqf-amendment-bill-2024-key-changes-reasons-and-concerns-explained-pointwise/

Parliament is very late in bringing such an amendment, India being a country focusing more on social justice, secularism then how can there be such a law without any check and increasing its Powers by further amendments from so many years that too after the passing of places of worship act.

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🌟 Case law (for interpretation)-

✅ Vijay D. Nagar v. State of Rajasthan 2008 SC

Section 162 Crpc ie. 181 BNSS

Implication—
No Bar of 162 on a statement made to police officer in inquiry or trial otherthan the one under which investigation of the same offence (same as inquiry and trial) is being held and it will be admissible provided the statement comes within any of the provisions of Evidence act.

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🌟 MUST READ ARTICLE

👨‍⚖️ 1. Mistake by B.R. Ambedkar

Discussing the drafting of consultation (collegium one) provision in the constitution, Noorani criticised even B.R. Ambedkar for blithely telling the constituent assembly on May 24, 1949, that ‘judiciary decides cases in which the government has, if at all, the remotest interest; in fact, no interest at all. The judiciary is engaged in deciding the issues between citizens and very rarely between citizens and the government.’ Subsequent decades proved Ambedkar wrong, and it is a common knowledge today that in 80% cases, government is one of the party.


📝 2. Whip Cannot be issued by Parliament when acting as Jury

Noorani was also a critic of impeachment process. He had criticised adoption of this process that had fallen into disuse even in England with last impeachment taking place in 1806. He criticised P. V. Narasimha Rao’s decision to issue a whip to abstain from voting on the impeachment motion of Justice V. Ramaswami as unconstitutional, since no whip can be issued when Parliament is sitting as jury during impeachment motion to pronounce verdict of guilty or not guilty.

🧠 3. Can a judge be guilty of Contempt of court in his professional capacity?

✅ 4. Noorani’s well-researched book Political Trials (1775-1947)

✅ 5. Criminal Defamation to Press

Noorani was an ardent advocate of freedom of press and was opposed to invocation of criminal defamation against the journalists. He even criticised Nehru government for proposing Ministers and Bureaucrats a summary remedy for criminal libel in respect of their public conduct. Even the British had not enacted such a regressive law. Noorani did appreciate Justice Jeevan Reddy’s observations in Nakkheeran (1994) that a journalist need not prove what he has written is true but that he acted after reasonable verification of facts.

✅ 6. Article 370
Kashmiris need not cry on Article 370’s abrogation as in its operational mode, Article 370 was indeed more of Centre’s power rather than State’s autonomy. (40+ Constitutional orders over the period of all the governments)

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Don't 'beg to appear' before court; shed colonial mindset: Calcutta High Court to lawyers

"You have a constitutional and statutory right to represent, you can say that I am appearing for the appellant," the Court remarked.
lawyer arguing

https://www.barandbench.com/news/dont-beg-to-appear-before-court-shed-colonial-mindset-calcutta-high-court-to-lawyers

💼 Advocate- I beg to appear for XYZ

👨‍⚖️ Court- Why do you people use the word “begging”? This colonial expression has gone now and we are independent. You have a constitutional and statutory right to represent. You can say that I am appearing for the appellant. You have a right. Nobody can deny you. Why do you use the word beg?

Mention the Articles and Sections related to representation 👇

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Mere Expression 'Benefit Of Doubt' In Judgment Doesn't Mean Acquittal Was Not Honourable; Entire Reasoning Has To Be Appreciated: Bombay High Court
https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/bombay-high-court/bombay-high-court-honourable-acquittal-benefit-of-doubt-231059

🌟 This was asked in RJS Mains Essay,2024 right?
somewhere close.

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🌟 Supreme court Chronicle | August

More- https://t.me/CurrentLegalGK/3613

✅ Gaurav Kumar v UOI, 2024
Excessive Enrollment Fee cannot charged by State Bar Councils

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West Bengal Govt Passes 'Anti-Rape Bill' In State Assembly, Proposes Time-Bound Trial & Death Penalty For Those Guilty Of Rape
https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/west-bengal-govt-tables-anti-rape-bill-in-state-assembly-proposes-time-bound-trial-death-penalty-for-those-guilty-of-rape-268474

Even Ancient times Criminal justice system will work if there is no politics like this.

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‘Bulldozer justice’: What do local laws in states say about demolitions? 🔗
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