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Articles by Raj Kumar Makkad

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JUSTICE UNDER TRIAL

  Raj Kumar Makkad   28 December 2009 at 23:00

The cash-at-door case that had come to light last year has taken a new turn with a special CBI court expressing dissatisfaction over the case closure report. It will be recalled that the case involves the delivery of Rs 15 lakh to the residence of Pu ..


Posted in Criminal Law |   1574 Views


Trials & Investigation in India-A mockery of law

  Raj Kumar Makkad   28 December 2009 at 23:00

If the curious case of the dog that didn't bark at night had been investigated in India, chances are the canine would turn into a mouse, then night would have become day and finally, that there is no case at all. The twists and turns in the Ruchika G ..


Posted in Criminal Law |   1733 Views


COURTING PROTESTS

  Raj Kumar Makkad   28 December 2009 at 23:00

As this decade ends and predictions fly on the "big event" of the next one, here's a question you're unlikely to read elsewhere. What will the next decade's Shah Bano be? The reference being to the 1985 Supreme Court decision to apply crimi ..


Posted in Constitutional Law |   1302 Views


What is Service??

  Raj Kumar Makkad   28 December 2009 at 12:10

What constitutes ‘Service’ is certainly a subject matter of discussion. Its plain meaning is an Act of helpful Activity or Rendering of Assistance or Help. Service is generally a feeling in the form of efforts and excludes sale of goods o ..


Posted in Labour & Service Law |   2643 Views


DEATHS IN CUSTODY

  Raj Kumar Makkad   28 December 2009 at 12:10

The National Human Rights Commission's report that Uttar Pradesh has recorded maximum custodial deaths in 2009 is cause for serious concern. This also shows the state police and jail authorities in poor light. According to the NHRC figures, 232 peopl ..


Posted in Criminal Law  1 comments |   2523 Views


All about Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) in brief

  Raj Kumar Makkad   28 December 2009 at 12:10

What is an IPO?An IPO is when a company which is presently not listed at any stock exchange makes either a fresh issue of shares or makes an offer for sale of its existing shares or both for the first time to the public. Through a public offering, th ..


Posted in Corporate Law  1 comments |   2639 Views


IMPUNITY OR ACCOUNTABILITY

  Raj Kumar Makkad   27 December 2009 at 10:27

Eleven members of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit based in San Francisco are scheduled to hear legal arguments on Tuesday in a lawsuit involving serious allegations of torture. The Bush administration tried to block the suit ..


Posted in Constitutional Law |   1143 Views


SETTLING INDIAN TRUSTS

  Raj Kumar Makkad   27 December 2009 at 10:26

For the last 13 years, the case of Cobell v. Salazar has wound its way through the United States District Court for the District of Columbia like a latter-day version of Dickens's Jarndyce v. Jarndyce. The defendants — the secretaries of interi ..


Posted in Civil Law |   2016 Views


Intellectual Property: Resale Royalty for Visual Artists Act

  Raj Kumar Makkad   27 December 2009 at 10:26

Background * In its 2007 arts policy, New Directions for the Arts, the Federal Government committed to a resale royalty scheme for visual artists, based on the recommendation in the Report of the Contemporary Visual Arts and Craft Inquiry of 2002. ..


Posted in Intellectual Property Rights  1 comments |   3827 Views


Ruchika case and failue of the entire System

  Raj Kumar Makkad   27 December 2009 at 10:26

fully agree with the views expressed by Mr. Victor Cooper. After suffering from the personal hands of a famous politician like Shri Jyoti Basu, I made study, that why such a situation is developed in the country, where 'Rule of Law' is not effective ..


Posted in Criminal Law |   1203 Views