Reforming India's Sports Bodies: The Lodha Committee's Enduring Legacy
The IPL Betting Scandal and the Birth of the Lodha Committee In May 2013, Indian cricket was rocked by revelations of spot-fixing and illegal betting during the Indian Premier League (IPL). Delhi Police arrested three Rajasthan Royals cricketers, and investigations soon implicated Gurunath Meiyappan, son-in-law of then BCCI President N. Srinivasan, along with individuals linked to the Chennai Super Kings ownership. The scandal exposed a deep conflict of interest at the heart
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Does long incarceration under UAPA trump the statutory condition of bail? 3 Judges will deliberate again
With the repeated rejection of bail applications of Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam, the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, 1967 [‘UAPA’] has been under the constitutional scrutiny for some time. Similar to other special statutes, S. 43-D(5) of UAPA makes grant of bail more onerous than other criminal offences[1] and restrains the Court from granting it if there are reasonable grounds to believe that the allegations are prima facie true. A threshold assessment of the merits of
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Women Reservation in Parliament & State Legislature
By way of the Constitution (106th Amendment) Act 2023, passed on 28th September 2023, women reservation has been introduced in the Parliament and State Legislative Assemblies. Salient features of the Amendment Act are as follows: 1) 1/3rd Quota The Amendment Act provides that, (i) 1/3 of the total number of seats to be filled by direct election in the Legislative Assembly of NCT of Delhi shall be reserved for women [Article 239AA(2)(bc)], (ii) 1/3 of the total number of se
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