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Guest Post: ‘Trans’itioning POSH – Is the Act Fit to Protect Trans Women? | BeingBrief  [This is a guest post by Soumya Ghosal.] The Government of India enacted the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act [POSH] in 2013 with the aim of defining what constitutes sexual harassment in the workplace, to lay down the necessary procedures for filing a complaint and how the… Link: Ссылка скрыта

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Guest Post: The Hijab Case – Justice Gupta and the (Mis)Interpretation of Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution | BeingBrief [This is a guest post by Nidhi Agrawal and Sukarm Sharma.] Aishat Shifa v. State of Karnataka delivered a split verdict, with Justice Gupta upholding the impugned order dated 5.02.2022 while Justice Dhulia considered the same unconstitutional. This post examines the holding of Justice Gupta with respect to the applicability of Article 19(1)(a).… Link: Ссылка скрыта

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Guest Post: Constitutional Culture and the Governor’s Actions in Punjab | BeingBrief [This is a guest post by Anmol Jain.] Recent events in Punjab have, once again, cast sharp scrutiny upon the office of the Governor. The events that transpired in Punjab could be summarized as follows. Amid several allegations of the BJP’s attempt to entice the ruling AAP government’s MLAs, the Punjab cabinet decided… Link: Ссылка скрыта

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The Phantom Constitutionality of Section 69A: Part II (twitter v the Union) | BeingBrief Part one of this two-part series (here) examined how the Supreme Court’s upheld Section 69A and the Blocking Rules on the assumption that there existed adequate safeguards against lawful content being taken down. However, we noted how in practice, the Blocking Rules offered few to no procedural safeguards against the takedown of content… Link: Ссылка скрыта

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ONDC: Democratising The E-commerce Industry | BeingBrief Piyush Chaubey and Anshika Gubrele Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), an initiative by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, seeks to democratise the e-commerce industry by carving a level playing field for the e-commerce giants and the small sellers (kiranas). However, the seamless implementation of this plan is hampered… Link: Ссылка скрыта

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LSPR Monthly Newsletter (Volume 4) | BeingBrief Private Jails: Is it the Reform that India Needs? Suhana Z. and Binit Agrawal Justice KM Joseph, while hearing the petition in Gautam Navlakha v. NIA, remarked “There’s a study of prisons. It’s one of the lowest priorities for any government. In Europe, there’s a concept of private responsibility. There is CSR in… Link: Ссылка скрыта

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The Phantom Constitutionality of Section 69A: Part I | BeingBrief Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (“IT Act”) empowers the Union Government to block content on the internet. The provision has been on the statute books for over a decade and survived a constitutional challenge in 2015. Nonetheless, subsequent legal and factual developments have once again shone a light on some… Link: Ссылка скрыта

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The Cap-and-Trade System under the Energy Conservation Amendment Bill 2022 —A Job Quarter Done | BeingBrief Saranya Ravindran Image credit This article is an analysis of the various stages involved in implementing a cap-and-trade system in light of the blueprint released by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency and the 2022 Amendment to the Energy Conservation Bill, 2001, which gives the central government the power to establish such a system.… Link: Ссылка скрыта

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Forgetting the Basics: The Bail Orders in Jyoti Jagtap and Umar Khalid’s Cases | BeingBrief In June and October 2021, the Delhi and Bombay High Courts had passed two important judgments on bail under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act [“UAPA”]. The Delhi High Court’s judgment(s) granted bail to Asif Iqbal Tanha, Devangana Kalita, and Natasha Narwal, who were accused of various UAPA offences arising out of the February… Link: Ссылка скрыта

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