Legal Talk

 "Where a society has chosen to accept democracy as its creedal faith, it is elementary that the citizens ought to know what their government is doing. The citizens have a right to decide by whom and by what rules they shall be governed and they are entitled to call on those who govern on thei r behalf to account for their conduct. No democratic government can survive without accountability. And the basic postulate of accountability is that the people should have information about the functioning of the government. It is only if people know how government is functioning that they can fulfil the role which democracy assign to them and make democracy a really effective participatory democracy”. This observation was held by Supreme Court of India in a case named as S.P Gupta v. Union of India. We all have heard about Right to Information (RTI) which is derived from our fundamental right, Right to Freedom of Speech and expression under article 19(a) of the constitution. If w

The ideals of a progressive and free India will never be realized as long as our children are unsafe. The Gang rape and murder of the eight-year old girl in Kathua had fumed a nation-wide anger, frustration and mass protest by people of all caste and communities. The incident was one of the most shocking and heinous acts in the country, which had distressed everyone and immediate call to hang the rapist was made by common masses. After continuous protest by the people, President Kovind on Sunday promulgated an ordinance, which was approved by Union Government, to pave way for providing stringent punishment, including death penalty for those convicted of raping girls below the age of 12 years. Now The Indian Penal Code (IPC), The Evidence Act, The code of Criminal Procedure (Cr.PC), and The Protection of Children from Sexual offences (POCSO) Act will stand amended. This amendment act stipulates stringent punishment for perpetrators of Rape. But it is no more a legislation problem.

Every morning, I watch school children walking to school weighed down by heavy school bags. Bag seems to be bigger and heavier than their bodies. And when I asked this question to my cousin, who has been studying in class 6th, that why her bag is too heavy,she replied,” We have to carry eight books and eleven notebooks each day to the school.And we don’t bring anything extra.If we do not carry all these books and notebooks to school, the teacher will scold us”.Now here the question arises what is the necessity to bring all these notebooks and books daily to the school.And the answer is clear, because there is not any clear timetable of what to bring to school, on which day.And one more reason is, most of the schools feel that the heavier the bag, the greater the teaching would be.But the parents of these children are not aware on how those heavy weight of school bag has been affecting the health of their children.They are unaware of this fact, that these heavy backbreaking school