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Cyber Trolling                                                                        Dr. Ritu Gautam                                                                       [Cyber Law Expert] It has become a frequent feature in the news citing famous personalities being trolled on various social networking sites like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter etc. Most of them were female celebrities like Taapsee Panuu, Radhika Apte, Ameesha Patel, Kangna Raunat, Priyanka Chopra, Sonam Kapoor and who not. I think every female who speaks her mind or expresses her opinion, is vu...

https://theprint.in/opinion/bar-council-of-indias-discriminatory-age-cap-on-study-of-law-is-nonsensical/215186/  “The Supreme Court has asked the Bar Council of India to  reconsider  its rule on age limit for admission into law courses. The court said that there is no age to acquire education. Three years ago, the Bar Council of India (BCI) decided to impose an ageist bar on the study of law. Under this nonsensical norm, only those under 20 years of age were eligible to be admitted for the five-year integrated LLB programme and those under 30 years for the three-year post graduate LLB programme. The matter is now listed in the court for this week. Problems with age bar Age bars are problematic for more reasons than one. First, the limit is arbitrary. Why 20? Why not 21 or 25 for that matter? Indeed, the sheer arbitrariness is evidenced by the fact that the BCI itself yo-yoed on this count. It first indicated that the cut-off was 20 years for the five...

Doctrine of Vagueness                                                                                                                         Dr. Ritu Gautam                                                                                                                        (Cyber Law Expert) Doctrine of “Void for Vagueness” , originated in the American legal system, has been driven from...