Mayank Tiwari

Trade unions and their implications in labour law and Constitution of India

December 16, 2021

INTRODUCTION The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labour movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor. A. Philip Randolph Trade Unionism is a dynamic concept, which has been continuously debated upon all around the globe. The idea of Trade...

NATURAL LAW AND ARTICLE 21: A STUDY FROM THE JURISPRUDENTIAL PERSPECTIVE

June 2, 2021

INTRODUCTION A natural law theory argues of natural rights which is inherent in every human being by virtue of his personality and is inalienable and imprescriptible . From natural law there has been a gradual transition to natural rights. The idea of natural rights has its origin in the natural...

CUSTODIAL VIOLENCE: INJURY OR SCAR ON THE CONSTITUTIONAL FACE OF LAW?

May 22, 2021

“We are deeply disturbed by the diabolical recurrence of police torture resulting in a terrible scare in the minds of common citizens that their lives and liberty are under a new peril when the guardians of the law gore human rights to death. ” BACKGROUND The phenomenon of custodial violence...

UNDERSTANDING THE NOTION OF SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE UNDER INDIAN EVIDENCE ACT UNDER SECTION 106: A SITUATIONAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS

May 6, 2021

1. PRINCIPLE OF THE SECTION The section 106 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 is read as, “When any fact is especially within the knowledge of any person, the burden of proving that fact is upon him.” This section is an exception to the general rule contained in section 101...

Pre-trial role of the police: Exhaustive or insufficient?

April 10, 2021

From the data and statistics collected from, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, latest available till 2013, says there are 138 police personnel per lakh of the population in India. This has been substantiated by the Indian Parliament in 2014, that there was shortage of 5.6 lakh police personnel...