Legal Notes Magazine - May 2019

In this issue

'Ali, Bajrangbali, EC to be put in jail for two days if voted to power, Don't split your (Muslims) votes." Say what you please. The Election Commission set its ears and politicians' speeches were on its radar. With the list of leaders temporarily barred from campaigning on the rise, LEGAL NOTES in its cover story dissected the reasons and thus the subjectivity that lies in the decisions made by the Election Commission. With the dissent between Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa and the rest of the Commission on the clean chits given to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Amit Shah on five different occasions becoming public, how does the speech-o-meter actually work? On the International front, the magazine has a late Dutch Doctor and the co-founder of Insys Therapeutics- a pharmaceutical company, both making waves for their fraudulent activities. In addition, Rajasthan is seeing the making of its new Right to Healthcare Law for the citizens of its state but as Dr Girdhar Gyani points out, will the move be beneficial especially since the state isn't in a position to make such schemes mandatory. Plus, all the regular sections.