Pairokar

    The life history of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar is so touching and heart-wrenching that it moves even a stone-hearted person. The way he escaped from the ship S.S. Morea which was bringing him from Britain to India at Marseilles port of France was a hair-raising story of unprecedented courage and adventure. If the silly and stupid authorities of the French harbour had not handed over Savarkar to the British Police, the history of India would have been altogether different. France was at loggerheads with England, so, ever body genuinely thought that Savarkar would be tried in France and not in India, a colony of Britain.  The feat of Savarkar was the talk of the town not only in India, Britain and France but it was flashed as big news in most of the newspapers of the world. The French government was roundly criticised for its inept handling  of the Savarkar’s  escape from the ship. He swam from the ship to reach the quay of the port and then r...

   It is very astonishing indeed that instead of taking the challenge of Coronavirus head-on, the Supreme of India has decided to work with only six benches against the usual 14 benches from Monday till further decision. The crowd in the courts and courtrooms can be minimised not by the half-hearted measures but by modernisation through the use of the Artificial Intelligence (AI). This is also the best time when live streaming of the courts must be taken up in the right earnest.    Why should the cause list be prepared in a manner when it is almost certain that the case would not reach the Board for hearing on that day? Sometimes a case is shown to be in the cause list for days together keeping the concerned Advocates and clients on tenterhooks. This problem can certainly be solved with the help of technology and better scheduling of time. Most of the cases of the routine nature can be disposed of by the Technology itself providing much time to judges to make its be...

Saga of Judge-Made law Acquiring Constitutional Status Public Interest Litigations (PILs) are the best examples of the Judge-Made laws is because it is nowhere mentioned in the statute. Now PILs have become so popular in our country that most of the High Courts and even the Supreme Court has opened a PIL branch in its registry. Why has it become so popular and how does it differ from writs? There should not be any misunderstanding that PILs are also filed as other writs like; ‘mandamus’, ‘prohibition’, ‘qua warranto’, ‘habeas corpus’ or ‘certiorari’.   PILs have actually entered in the Indian judicial process in the 1970s. It is intended to vindicate public interests where fundamental and other rights of the people who are poor, ignorant or socially or economically in a disadvantageous position, and are unable to seek legal redress.  However, with the passage of time PILs have been entertained in other spheres, for example; judicial interventions, necessary for the...