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Dec 11, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Ram Puniyani |Sumit Gupta |Arjun Banerjee |Thomas Klikauer
by Prof Jagdeep Chhokar and Dr E A S SarmaAppeal to Hon’ble Smt Droupadi Murmu President of IndiaRespected Rashtrapati Ji,We refer to the “Restatement of Values of Judicial Life” adopted by the Hon’ble Supreme Court at its full Court Meeting on 7th May 1997 (https://main.sci.gov.in/pdf/Notice/02112020_090821.pdf), which, inter alia, laid down the following norm of conduct for judges:“Justice must not merely be done but it must also be seen to be done.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Ram Puniyani |Sumit Gupta |Arjun Banerjee |Thomas Klikauer
The widely reported speech of Justice Shekhar Yadav, sitting judge of Allahabad High court from the platform of Viswahindu parishad is against the constitution, its ethos and a direct affront to its basic structure-secularism and independence of judiciary. It tantamounts to sabotaging of independence of judiciary from within. The tone and tenure of the speech amounts to hate speech against Muslim minority in the name of majoritarian-Hindu religion.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Sumit Gupta |Tabrez Alam |Omar Raad Chowdhury |Shantanu Dutta
In a landmark recommendation, the Supreme Court of India has asked Parliament to consider banning child betrothals, a practice that involves engaging children to be married at a future date. While less visible than child marriage, child betrothals create an equally dangerous pathway to forced marriages, violating children’s rights to education, autonomy, and well-being.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Sumit Gupta |Manas Jena |Vidyadhar Date |Jake Johnson
The recent ruling by the Supreme Court concerning Section 6A of the Citizenship Act has sent ripples through both Assam and the broader context of citizenship in India. Delivered in 17th October 2024, this judgment addresses a contentious legal provision that has sparked debates for years.
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Oct 5, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Vikas Meshram |Renu Singh |Sumit Gupta |Pratap Narayan Singh
In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court has directed all states and union territories to immediately amend prison rules to stop caste-based discrimination and segregation of labor in prisons. The court stated that this is a violation of Article 15 of the Constitution. It noted that dividing tasks such as cooking and cleaning based on caste is inappropriate. A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court highlighted that prison regulations discriminate in the allocation of work based on caste.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Renu Singh |Dhiraj Singha |Dinkar Kapoor |Sumit Gupta
Caste is considered to be the cornerstone of Indian Hindu society. In this structure of hierarchical inequality, the untouchables are at the lowest level, who were officially called ‘Depressed Classes’ till 1935. Gandhiji had awarded them the name ‘Harijans’ which most of the untouchables did not accept. Now they have themselves chosen the name ‘Dalits’ for themselves, which is indicative of their downtrodden status.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Renu Singh |Sumit Gupta |Pratap Narayan Singh |Cynthia Stephen
Amid the twin issues of Caste Census and Sub-categorization of reservation of SCs/STs and ‘creamy layer’ among SCs, it must be remembered that caste issues have always been tweaked and twisted by politicians for their windfall gains to fortify their political positions in the name of social justice. Sub-Categorization of ReservationWhy sub- categorization within SCs on the first place?
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Sumit Gupta |Pratap Narayan Singh |Cynthia Stephen |MA Krishna
The one-man committee of Justice K Chandru handed over its 600-page report to the the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, MK Stalin (second from Right) on June 18, 2024. Three months after that, there is still no news whether it was officially ‘accepted’ by the government, presented to the legislature, nor there is any Action Taken Report. The DMK conducted its platinum jubilee event on Sep 17th commemorating the party’s 75th anniversary.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Vidya Bhushan Rawat |ABHAY KUMAR |K S Chalam |Sumit Gupta
The Supreme Court Judgement on Sub Classification of Scheduled Caste Reservation has rightly been criticized for transgressing in venturing into areas which actually were not part of petition. Apart from it, the lectures of ‘morality’ and ‘ethics by various judges particularly speaking about ‘creamy layer’ only look hollow the way judges so vehemently defend their own system of selection process, named as collegium system, in judiciary.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | ABHAY KUMAR |K S Chalam |Sumit Gupta |Shamsul Islam
Reservation has always been an issue of debate in India. The majority of Hindus remain opposed to it without having understood the necessity of Reservation for the socially and economically backward Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs). The chief architect of Indian constitution Bharat Ratna Baba Saheb Dr.B. R. Ambedkar raised this demand and achieved it despite several hurdles. Hindus are responsible for the wretched conditions of the Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs).
