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This week's legal news includes AAP Goons, Indian Constitution, Double speak, Trademarks, States and Supreme Court
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Desh Kapoor
Contrary to what the jokers at AAP say, the fact is that its goons like Satyendar Jain have masterminded money laundering. Now, even the Delhi High Court has called it out.
Former Delhi cabinet minister Satyendar Jain is the "conceptualizer, visualizer and executor" of the entire operation through which money has allegedly been laundered, the Delhi High Court observed.
Read the article and think about it when you listen to Arvind Kejriwal next time as he eulogizes Jain again.
When Constitution makers started writing the Indian Constitution, they began with a dim view of the people in whom they were to vest the power to rule themselves. Ambedkar famously said:
Contrary to the rather narrow views of Ambedkar, the fact is that Dharma is the reason why democracy is alive in India. And finally someone says it the way it is. Justice Swaminathan of Madras High Court.
"Constitution is the ultimate for everyone. If the Constitution has to remain the same, the demographic profile that existed at the time of its (the Constitution's) formation must remain unaltered. Only if the demographic profile remains the same, will the Constitution remain the same. If the demographic profile changes, the Constitution will perish," Justice Swaminathan said.
If the demographic in the country changes, you don't need to speculate how India will be. In India vs Pakistan you have a perfect Social Laboratory experiment - "All things being equal change just one variable and see the results."
Supreme Court justices are a bunch of double-speaking bunch. Let us simply out the stuff here for you to make your own idea.
CJI was mad at the media for criticizing the judiciary and judges. Aww, that's cute. He wants the media to desist from "media trials" and that lovely word of democracy. One can see he stopped short of banning certain media houses.
Awstika Das
But oh when any idea rumored about any media house "being banned", CJI gets all up in arms.
Prachi Bhardwaj
And then dissent becomes critical to democracy. Of course that discourse should steer clear of his ilk! LOL
In India trademarks infringement is real. It is quite common for stores or businesses in small towns to have names based on large corporations.
Legal Era
The Indian judiciary is all over the place. Irrespective, the fact is that High Courts in the states should NOT be subservient to the Supreme Court. They are the law in their states. The Supreme Court, however, does not believe so. And it comes out in this communique as well. Why would the Supreme Court want to herd the State courts into one ideological stand?
India Legal
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