The Fundamental Rights: Recent Episodes
The Fundamental Rights
The Fundamental Rights is an Indian legal podcast that focuses on predominant and perennial legal issues, cases, doctrines, black letter laws and expounds on unfamiliar yet manifest status quos.
This episode gives a broad outline of the purpose of Anti-Defection law and how its widely known loopholes makes it inconsequential.
Can the Governors and the President pardon all offences and does this pardoning power extend to extinguish penalties and costs imposed by the courts? Why does the pardoning power even exist after having a comprehensive multi-tired judicial system? Listen to find out!
This episode indulges in the reasoning of the Karnataka High Court judgment on 'ban on hijab' and discusses the social milieu in which Hijab and similar style of clothing became prevalent. This episode also distills Art. 25 rights and its interaction with the famous-infamous essential religious practice test.
Why are International Court of Justice (IJC) decrees un-enforceable? If Orders of ICJ are practically futile, what prompted Ukraine to petition the ICJ requesting it to Order suspension of Russian military offensive?
Governors acting as ex-officio Chancellors is a British vestige and this episode deliberates on the practical or impractical reasons (you be the judge!) of this vestige and the recent developments of relations between the tussle between state governments and Governors/Chancellors.
Note: I forgot to mention that Chief Justices are the Chancellors of National Law Universities and this I believe lends more credibility to the institution for a university under the control of the highest judicial officer of the state is expected to maintain lofty standards and compromises nowhere on the curriculum.