Last week at CLPR – 30th April to 5th May 2018

Last week at CLPR – 30^th April to 5^th May 2018

CLPR:

In association with Alternative Law Forum, Amnesty India, CIEDS Collective, Enfold India, Hidden Pockets, PUCL, Prochild Coalition, Campaign Against Death Penalty for Child Rape and SICHREM, CLPR organised a town hall meeting on 5^th May 2018 at the Jain University Auditorium to discuss the Criminal Law (Amendment) Ordinance 2018.

SCO:

• On Day 36 of the Aadhaar Act case, K.K. Vengupal argued that Aadhaar Bill was correctly passed as a Money Bill. He also clarified that the Union would follow the Supreme Court’s directions in not mandating the linking of Aadhaar card and SIM card. Mr. Shyam Divan resorted to a UIDAI technical paper to explain the extent of surveillance which the Aadhaar Programme is capable of.
• The Supreme Court of India in April 2018 delivered significant judgments and held hearings on other matters.
• Two ‘Court by Numbers’ were put up on the website:

1. In 2017, the Supreme Court struck down a statute or a part of a statute as being unconstitutional in 5 cases.
2. 57 is the total number of reported Review Petitions in the Supreme Court since its inception. The review petition filed by Centre and States in Kashinath Mahajan v Maharashtra will be 58^th Review Petition decision by the Supreme Court.

• We highlighted 2 opinion pieces under the ‘Beyond the Court’ section.

1. Anup Surendranth, Aparna Chandra, Suchindran Baskar Naryan write on the Centre-Collegium controversy in a piece titled – Ball’s in Supreme Court.
2. Rohan Venkaramakrishnan of the Scroll writes on the Centre’s flip-flop on the Aadhaar-SIM linking issue.

• Satya Prasoon and Ashwini Tallur from CLPR wrote Supreme Court and the making of the ‘Love-Jihad’ Case, an opinion piece for The Citizen.
• Judges– Biography of Justice Indu Malhotra was added.

CADIndia:

• Assembly Member of the Week: R.K. Shanmukhan Chetty was a Constituent Assembly member from the Madras constituency. He was independent India’s first Finance Minister and remembered for delivering the budget speech on 26^thNovember 1947.