Author: Somyajit Mukherjee

Recent events Delhi Court Battle: Regarding the control over administrative services in the national capital on March 3, 2022, The Hon’ble Supreme Court on 15/02/2022 agreed to list the legal dispute between the Delhi Government and the Central Government. Before the Bench of Chief Justice of India NV Ramana and Justices AS Bopanna and Hima Kohli, Arvind Kejriwal, through Senior Advocate Dr. Abhishek Manu Singhvi, made an urgent plea. He seeks a listing of the plea. Monday next week, the Bench agreed to list the matter. The issue raised by the Delhi government is that the Central government excluded the…

Recent events  The Sri Lankan Navy has arrested 12 more Rameswaram natives fishing near Katchatheevu on 12th February upon the ground of crossing the (IMBL). Later Kilinochchi Court passed an order directing the fishers in custody till 25th February.  According to the intel, a Lankan Navy patrol vessel intercepted a mechanised boat with three men, and nine men in a different ship were fishing near Katchatheevu. The arrested fishers include B Jeromias (age 47), A Napoleon (period, 48), R Ramesh (age 21), L James (age 45), N Muniyasamy (age 34) and V Jothimuthu (age 24).   Those 12 fishermen who were…

Its stance The provision of Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (“P.C. Act”), i.e., Section 17A, is not retrospective, stated by The Hon’ble Supreme Court. Section 17A was inserted into the Prevention of Corruption Act on July 26, 2018. There cannot be any inquiry and investigation through this provision without prior sanction from the statutory authority. As per Justice Indira Banerjee and Justice J.K. Maheshwari, while allowing the appeals, ruled, “The learned  Counsel appearing for respondent does not explicitly dispute with the proposition of law after that pointing out that the Section 17A does not have retrospective operation.” Meanwhile, an FIR had been…

An overview In the Supreme Court, a writ petition was tabled, praying for some guidelines which will instruct the State Boards, CBSE, ICSE, NIOS for conducting the board exams for 10th and 12th in offline platforms and thereby to pass a notification for an alternative way out instead of conducting online examination.   It was alleged therein that the State Boards have become a silent statute on the current scenario and have been reluctant to take the timely and essential initiative in respect of conducting examinations and declaration of the final results for their respective programs of students (i.e.,, class X…

Insecurity for Cybersecurity A cybersecurity threat is an illegal, malicious , and premeditated attack by an individual or organization with an ill motive to gain unauthorized access to another individual’s platform or organization’s network to damage, disrupt, or steal IT assets, computer networks, intellectual property, damage sensitive components or any other form of sensitive data. The adverse impact The reluctant dumping of a mobile number linked to your bank account could prove quite fatal, going by the experience of a housewife at Kollam recently. She was shocked to know when her bank account was completely wiped out of nearly ₹8 lakh. It seemed…

On 4th  of February, 2022, a Private Member Bill was introduced in Rajya Sabha  to repeal the four new Labour Codes. In case of  private member bill to become an Act, it shall be passed from both the houses and then it shall be sent for presidential assent. The chances of a Private Bill coming up as the law are minuscule and rare as only 14 Private Member Bills have become law so far, the last one was the Supreme Court (Enlargement of Criminal Appellate Jurisdiction) Bill, 1968 which was passed in 1970. Private Bill put forth for repealing the four…