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The PNB scam has revealed it all. From fake LOUs to crores of money used for personal benefits, the Nirav-Choksi fraud has been covered extensively. However, there still are voices that are not making it to the creamy layer: the voice of the common man. LegalNotes uncovers the truth behind the retail fraud undertaken by Mehul Choksi as it looks extensively about the whistleblower's part of the story. In addition, Vipin Malik, a former central board member of the RBI analyses on what went wrong with the regulators involved in the process. In our international section, Bangladesh is observing an unusual period. With popular leader Khaleda Zia convicted in an embezzlement case, the general assembly elections to be held in December would be the key that would perhaps put an end to the political wrangling going on in Bangladesh. The regular section features El Salvador's race against abortion law, the tussle between court and cattle sports and actress Priya Varrier's wink that swept the nation.
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Time For Action
Since time immemorial, the environment has had a larger-than-life place in the Indian scheme of things. But the Nineties and the new century have really been a sad story of a virtually unending line of laws failing to combat the increasing levels of pollution brought forth by urbanisation, and the global pressure about greenhouse emissions resulting in the Paris accord that now brings in its wake greater pressure on countries to tighten laws. Amidst all this, India shines as a classic example of the irrational mindset of enacting more laws to produce less pollution. RACHANA RANA BHATTACHARYA, while examining the dizzying number of laws that engulf us and the incredulously lopsided judicial pronouncements made by different courts, poses a simple question: What is the way forward?
Who's Responsible For Fukushima?
Even as the Fukushima nuclear disaster continues to haunt a section of the Japanese people and the world, a Japanese Court’s decision to acquit the nuclear power company, TEPCO’s bosses after three years of trial, raises questions over the use of nuclear power for energy needs.
Tata, Bye-Bye?
What would one choose between their right to vote in local body elections and to receive world class civic amenities? The answer isn’t as simple as it looks. Jamshedpur — the land of the Tatas has been struggling with this question for the last 30 years and looks like they still haven’t found an answer. Maintained by the Tatas, there has been a steady incline in the number of voices demanding a government operated municipality to take over the town. In the midst of consecutive orders by various High Courts, the Supreme Court and clashing opinions, SHWETA MENON in her visit to the steel city found that the majority verdict by the janta remains in favour of the Tatas.
No Winners In The Opioid Case
Pain can make you rich and the opioid issue in the US is testimony to that. But other than the wealth it spawned, opioid has generated a huge number of legal cases in the US – and quite a few of them have been filed by the states. Will the Sacklers, one of the richest families in the US and the makers of the pain-relieving drug OxyContin, go scot free?
J&-K A Jumble Of Laws
The transition of Jammu and Kashmir from a state to a Union Territory hasn’t been an easy one.
No Fishy Business
Belief, they say, moves mountains or in this case cures asthma. The annual Fish Prasadam jamboree in Hyderabad – that has been going on for the last 174 years – attracts asthmatic patients in thousands from all over the world. Legal Notes peeps in to provide a low-down on the hugely popular ‘fishy business’.
No Kingdom For Lions
A new in the list of PILs seeking to address and act on the issues of wildlife conservation is the one filed by wildlife activist Biren Pandya. This time it is for the protection of Asiatic lions. With the primary concern being around their unnatural deaths, the PIL finds resonance with a similar one filed last year for elephants. But the question that one needs to ask is where are we headed with these individual PILs and suo moto cases, if all that is being done on the ground is the shooting of these animals to drive them away.
Another Toothless Commission!
There was a walkout by the opposition, protests were staged across the capital, activists were shoved into police vans, letters were written to the President urging him to not sign the amendment and yet the central government was finally able to hit a six in its second attempt this year to amend the RTI (Right to Information) Act!
Labour's “Decent Life” Dreams Continue
“Every moving The Code on Wages Bill, 2019 made it a point to inform the Members of the Rajya Sabha that the government had accepted 17 out of the 24 recommendations made by the Standing Committee which had scrutinised a similar bill introduced in the previous Lok Sabha.
Article 370 - The Albatross Around The Neck
Considered an ‘albatross around the neck’ by the present BJP government at the centre, the sudden and surprising abrogation of Article 370 has opened the doors to a flood of emotions. The abrogation will be debated and tested in the Supreme Court, but it seems that the move has already won in the peoples’ court.
