Akash Sharma

Indian Patent Act and its compliance with TRIPS

August 31, 2023

INTRODUCTION The Indian jurisprudence concerning the regulation of patents has undergone a paradigm shift post India’s adaptation and incorporation of World Trade organization’s TRIPS Agreement also known as Agreement on Trade – Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights. Coming into force on the 1st Day of 1995, the broad aim...

Judicial Pendency: An Analysis

July 19, 2023

Justice Delayed is Justice Denied” as rightly said by Martin King Luther Jr., describes most poignantly the real face of the judicial system in India where nearly 5 crore cases lie pending, biting dust in the courtrooms with nothing but a mere hope for redressal or restitution. Judicial pendency, as...

HANDCUFFING – A FETTER ON HUMAN LIBERTY AND DIGNITY

March 24, 2023

Abstract Handcuffing has been defined by Encyclopedia Britannica as “Fetters or instruments used for securing the hands or feet or prisoners under arrest, or as a means of punishment”. The law ofarrest and the provisions of handcuffing under the criminal laws of India is deeplyinterlinked, through which the law enforcement...

Marital rape and the oscillating judical compass

February 10, 2023

Marriage in India is a sacrosanct relationship under the personal laws which not only marks a beginning of an intimate and fiduciary relationship between the husband and wife but also gives birth to a deeprooted connection between two families and a bond that is believed to last till eternity. According...

Witness protection and India: Where do we stand?

February 6, 2023

Bentham, one of the most prominent jurists has rightly said that “Witnesses are the eyes and years of justice”, highlighting the vital importance of witnesses as a mechanism for ensuring the quality and veracity of the trial. The role of a witness in a criminal trial is equivalent to an...

ARREST: HOW JUDICIAL PRECEDENTS HAVE ACTED AS A WATCHDOG FOR THE RIGHTS OF ARRESTED CITIZENS

January 4, 2023

One of the founding fathers of independent India, “Gurudev” Rabindranath Tagore envisioned of a nation where the “Mind is without fear and the head held high”, envisaging the spirit of a country where the fundamental ethos of the constitution uphold right to life and personal liberty of an individual. Arrest...

END TO DEATH PENALTY: NEED OF THE HOUR?

June 13, 2022

“Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars” is one of the most insightful quotes by Martin Luther King Jr. which has pertinently pointed out the humanitarian feelings towards respecting human life that must be an innate quality of every human being,...

Special Marriage Act, 1954: A panacea for Indian society?

October 15, 2021

“The course of true love did never run smooth” is one of the finest quotes by Shakespeare which has not only described the turmoil one has to face in a love story but also in order to get married while not honoring the society’s morals, customs and boundaries in India....