Tag: Criminal law

Reimagining India’s Legal System

By Ranjeev C DubeyCriminal Law
There comes a time in everyone’s life when they must stop to radically rethink their priorities. For nations, we call them inflection points, sometimes cultural transformations. For mature managers, we call them midlife crises! In every case, it’s about testing basic ideological assumptions about what we believe we want, or…

What really hurts about Vyapam

By Ranjeev C DubeyCriminal Law
It is that those uncovering such scams cannot actually be protected, notwithstanding the Whistleblower Protection Act Notwithstanding the flak directed at the Madhya Pradesh home minister, Babulal Gaur, for commenting that he could not secure the safety of Vyapam witnesses any more than Indira Gandhi could be protected, the fact…

Freedom To Offend

By Ranjeev C DubeyConstitutional Law
Getting rid of 66A doesn’t allow citizens to assume that we’ve lost our criminal laws on defamation or obscenity. This free speech one is unlikely to go much further. The valedictory flag marches around the Supreme Court’s striking down Section 66A of the Information Technology Act greatly exaggerates the immediate…

India’s Silenced Daughters

By Ranjeev C DubeyConstitutional Law
We may not have noticed but India seems to be having a Charlie Hebdo moment. Given the rioting in Rajpath in December 2012 following the horrific Nirbhaya Rape case, the Government has moved to pre-empt public outrage over Leslee Udwin’s documentary “India’s Daughter” by banning it. I dislike bans, be…

Uber Rubbish

By Ranjeev C DubeyCriminal Law
The tragic rape of a girl in an Uber cab triggered the usual tryst with unreality. The Delhi Government’s Transport Department immediately ‘banned’ internet cab aggregators- including Uber, Taxi-for-Sure and Ola- from operating in Delhi. Meanwhile, Delhi Police registered an FIR against Uber for misleading customers by falsely suggesting that…

Criminalising Corporate Restructuring

By Ranjeev C DubeyCompany Law
If you are one of those corporate consultants who advise clients on business restructuring, here is a piece of gratuitous advice: get out of it. It’s too dangerous. If you are a professional manager who has consented to sit on the board of a spun off business, or its holding…

The Future Of Firebomb Feminism

By Ranjeev C DubeyCriminal Law
If you are a women and live in India’s Rape Capital, the good news is that you are at a much lower risk of rape than sensationalists would have you believe. Modern attitudes to permissive relationships may have served to greatly enrich the lives of some business executives but the…

The Fender Bender

By Ranjeev C DubeyLitigation
I had the quintessential Delhi crash experience the other day when a lady, driving her car with an infant on the front passenger seat, rear-ended our four-wheeler. She emerged dazed from her sub compact while her child wailed. My car was pretty undamaged: as for her car, I couldn’t say…