Law Library STATISTIC Rajendra Prasad accepted 180 mercy pleas and rejected just one. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan allowed 57 mercy petitions while rejecting none. Zakir Hussain did not send a single man to the gallow, accepting 22 mercy pleas. VV Giri...
Day: June 1, 2018
Notable and historical judgments by Indian supreme court touching the questions of Human Rights
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The court is both the accuser as well as the judge of the accusation in case of ‘Contempt’
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In Debabrata Bandopadhyay and Ors. v. The State of West Bengal and Anr., AIR 1969 SC 189, this Court observed as under: A question whether there is contempt of court or not is a serious one. The court is...
The term “Constitution,” referred to the body or general framework of British laws and institutions. In eighteenth-century American political thought “constitution” came to refer to a body of fundamental principles, extracted from human experience, which, in written form, set...
The term “Nonconstitutional law” includes statutory, administrative, and judicial lawmaking outside the ambit of the written Constitutional provisions. It is not unconstitutional Law at all.