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Reportedly (https://theprint.in/india/job-in-assam-foreigners-tribunal-depends-on-conviction-rate- says-civil-rights-group-report/294030/), in Assam’s Foreigners Tribunal, the renewal of annual contract of its Members depends upon the ‘conviction rate’. In other words, it means that if the members of the Foreigners Tribunals declare a higher number of persons as foreigners, higher are their chances of being retained (https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/assam- decides-tribunal-members-term-on-rate-of-declaring-foreigners-amnesty/article31051919.ece) on their posts. Elsewhere, (https://adminlawblog.org/2020/03/26/talha-abdul-rahman-indias-administrative-…

Cite as: (2011) PL April S-38 While there is a virtue in the justice being blind, this definitely should not extend to admitting evidence that have been gathered by mechanisms deployed in egregious breaches of the law and human rights. In this article, I have argued basing on certain principled justifications that there is a…

It is estimated that 98,000 people die every year in the United States because of mistakes committed by medical professionals (1). One can well imagine the figures in India. However, the law does not aim to punish all acts of a doctor that caused injury to a patient. It is concerned only with negligent acts.…

The Indian Supreme Court, on 10 December, 2015 -- World Human Rights Day, ironically -- rendered a decision in, and upheld the requirement introduced by a state legislature that in order to contest elections at village level, the candidate must have passed "matriculate examination", among other conditions. Since a democratic form of governance is a…

It is estimated that 98,000 people die every year in the United States because of mistakes committed by medical professionals (1). One can well imagine the figures in India. However, the law does not aim to punish all acts of a doctor that caused injury to a patient. It is concerned only with negligent acts.…