How Many Languages Are Too Many Languages: A Review of the Jammu and Kashmir Official Languages Act, 2020

 The Jammu and Kashmir Official Languages Bill, 2020, was passed by parliament in the recently concluded monsoon session. The Act received the assent of the President on September 26, 2020. The law allows for the inclusion of Kashmiri, Dogri and Hindi, in addition to Urdu and English, in the list...

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National Security Act,1980: As an instrument of public shame and misuse rather than an instrument of providing justice.

Preventive detention practices are a legacy of British colonial rule in India. British had used the preventive detention laws to detain potential saboteurs or insurgents, without trial and with minimum procedural safeguards. During the British India period, there were various preventive detention laws...

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Delay in execution of capital punishment in relation to Nirbhaya case

On 16th December 2012, an adolescent girl was assaulted, dehumanized, and raped by six men including a juvenile. All the convicts raped her in a moving bus, and she died thereafter due to cardiac arrest and multiple organ failure. This frightening incident encouraged protests across the nation to secure...

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