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1 month ago | theleaflet.in | Maneesh Chhibber

ON MAY 23, THROUGH AN 11 PAGE ORDER,, Punjab and Haryana Chief Justice Sheel Nagu withdrew a corruption case, involving a District and Sessions judge, a prominent real estate company and Enforcement Directorate (ED), from a single Judge of the same high court and assigned the matter for hearing to his own bench.

1 month ago | theleaflet.in | Maneesh Chhibber

THE THREE JUDGE IN-HOUSE COMMITTEE CONSTITUTED BY CHIEF JUSTICE OF INDIA SANJIV KHANNA to inquire into serious allegations against Justice Yashwant Varma, the then sitting judge of Delhi High Court who was subsequently repatriated to Allahabad High Court is learnt to have found glaring loopholes in claims made by the judge. Reportedly, following a fire incident on March 14 at the official residence of Justice Varma, sacks of burnt currency were discovered.

2 months ago | theleaflet.in | Kashish Aneja |Lawrence O. Gostin

THIS YEAR’S WORLD HEALTH DAY falls against the backdrop of strained multilateralism and a crisis in global health funding. World Health Day serves as a stark reminder that good governance, sustained financing, and collective action are essential to safeguard public health worldwide. It is crucial, at this juncture, to reflect on the United States planned withdrawal from the World Health Organization (‘WHO’) and dismantling of the US Agency for International Development (‘USAID’).

Mar 30, 2025 | theleaflet.in | Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui

Nizamuddin Ahmad SiddiquiDr. Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui is researcher and co-founder of Project Mishkat, a platform to facilitate legal discourse on Muslim identity in India. Dr. Siddiqui has previously taught at Jindal Global Law School, National University of Juridical Sciences and Aligarh Muslim University. He is interested in the intersection of law, religion and identity.

Mar 30, 2025 | theleaflet.in | Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui |Mohd Rehan

TWO INTERPRETATIONS of the phrase ‘possession of land’ are being forwarded by the Supreme Court of India – first, that the ‘land’ and the ‘structure’ built over it are two separate entities, and second, that the ‘land’ and the ‘structure’ built over it should be considered one and the same. The second understanding, that ‘land’ includes things embedded in the earth such as scaffoldings for a building, has been a well settled principle of property law for centuries.