On 18th May 1949, at the Constituent Assembly, Ms. Srimathi G. Durgabai moved an Amendment regarding the qualification to be elected to Legislature, and spoke as follows; Sir, I beg to move that in the new Article 68A [qualifications proposed for insertion of Article 68 in Clause B for the word [thirty five] be substituted […]
On 20th May 1949, Professor KT Shah, Bihar General moved the Amendment in the Constituent Assembly and spoke as follows; “Either House of Parliament shall be to receive Petition or representation from the People of India or from People of any unit forming part of the Union of India.” Sir I consider this a very[…..]
On 20th May 1949, at the Constituent Assembly, Mr. Nazeeruddin Ahmed [West Bengal Muslim] spoke as follows; While dealing with payments or salaries; “It is rather a statutory recognised recognition of an Opposition. It is rather giving the Opposition recognised place in the Constitution”—- “Opposition in Democratic House is a great necessity, it is an[…..]
On 27th May 1949, an interesting exchange of words took place at the Constituent Assembly and they are narrated as follows; Shri H. V. Kamath; Mr. President, Sir, I move That in Article 117 for the words “all courts, the words, “all other courts be substituted.” So, if this is accepted the Article will read[…..]
Now that the Uttar Pradesh Government has brought a Draft Ordinance and what it call is – a law against “Love Jihad.” The Conversion of religion for the sake of marriage will soon be a criminal offence, wherein, the perpetrators [couples] of such crime will have to undergo 1 to 5 years of imprisonment and[…..]
There are hundreds of activists in prisons across the Country for their alleged activities or involvement in commission of offences targeting Country’s Administration or if needs to be appropriately interpreted and that should be in this way – questioning the Administration for the cause of voiceless and downtrodden of our Society. No doubt such arrests[…..]
This week two notable, yet remarkable, developments have taken place in Tamil Nadu State Judiciary. One is Justice Duraisamy’s humane judgment and another is Chief Justice of Tamil Nadu’s preference to face his medical check-up with the State run Government General Hospital. Faqsonlaw don’t get into superiority dispute over Government General Hospital vis-à-vis Private Hospitals.[…..]
On 28th December 1948 Mr. Kazi Syed Kareemudeen [CP Berar Muslim] spoke at the Constituent Assembly as follows; Mr. VP, I move, That the following new sub clause be inserted after sub clause B of Clause 2 of Article 50. [C] The meeting shall be Presided by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court whose[…..]
On 17th November 1948 Mr. Nazeeruddin Ahmed [Bengal General] spoke at the Constituent Assembly as follows; I read out the Clause – unless the context otherwise requires General Clauses Act, 1897, shall apply for interpretation of the Constitution. The Government of India Act was controlled in this respect by the UK Interpretation Act, 1889, and[…..]
The Allahabad High Court coming down heavily on a couples who sought protection is something amiss and can never be considered in a civilized judicial system. The plea made by the Petitioner Wife before the High Court was [if one go by media reports] that she was a Muslim and about a month before her[…..]