Comment : J.Krishna Iyer at his eloquent best, commences with “when law of crimes rebels against social justice and leans towards narrow legalism – it becomes crime of laws and not law of crimes” […]
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Supreme Court on obscenity (Raj Kapoor v. State) Justice Krishna Iyer.
QUESTION : Cinematograph Act 1952 Section 5A-Whether the issuance of the certificate issued by the specialised Board of Film Censors bars the criminal Court’s jurisdiction to try for offences under Sections 292/293 I.P.C ? […]
Supreme Court on obscenity (Bandit Queen Judgment)
A Remarkable judgment outlining the law of obscenity as it stands in India, in a nutshell, while holding Bandit Queen to have been rightly passed by the Censors, held it not to obscene as it […]
Arbitrary Allotment of Petrol Pumps …SC
Though overruled by SC in a later decision in 1999 – this decision is highly public oriented – wherein the ministers, rightly, were held to be repositories of public trust, liable for breach of trust […]
Justice Krishna Iyer on Law of Bails – Gudikanti Narasimhulu (1977)
Comment : Bail and not Jail as the guiding principle is back with SS Mhetre v. State of Maharashtra (2011) SC. Let’s see what started it. Here is Gudikanti Narsimhulu v. State (1977) delievered by […]