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VIDEO-RECORDING OF PROCEEDINGS OF COURTS AND TRIBUNALS – A PANACEA FOR THE ILLS WHICH INDIAN JUDICIARY FACES TODAY.

What prompts me to pen these few lines is a query from one of the few law students who started interning with me recently. The query was, what is the inspiration for me to initiate the campaign titled National Lawyers’ Campaign for Judicial Transparency and Reforms and the video-recording of proceedings of all Courts and Tribunals in the country as its prime objective. 1. I had no difficulty to answer the query because of the injustice which I personally had to undergo, for, the Judges enjoy absolute immunity in the discharge of their official function and for all practical purposes the...

26 February

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The risk of the failure of the Mullaperiyar dam and the loss of lives of not less than 60 lakhs of people is real and imminent. Read the letter of Shri Mathews J Nedumpara to the Prime Minister

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6.4.2022 AN OPEN LETTER FOR URGENT ATTENTION Hon’ble Shri Narendra Modi Prime Minister of India Also to, The Hon’ble Chief Ministers of Kerala and Tamil Nadu And Hon’ble Members of Parliament and political leaders Hon’ble Sir, Sub: The risk of the failure of the Mullaperiyar dam and the total wiping out of the Districts of Cochin, Alleppey, Kottayam and the loss of lives of not less than 60lakhs of common citizens of this country is real and imminent, and the on-going litigation in the Supreme Court where I appear for the common citizens is all certain to be a futile exercise. I address this letter inviting your excellency’s immediate personal...

26 February

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Until we abolish Collegium and senior designation, judicial reforms will remain as a mere myth.

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31st of March 2022. Dear fellow citizens, Our aim should not be confined to AIJS. That is certainly a worthy cause. But we must fearlessly enter the larger battle field. Dismantling of Collegium. Come what may, i have decided to pursue the cause marshalling all my resources. I may not see any definite success. But i will have the satisfaction that i did what i can. The defeat is going to be only temporary. The judges may harm me personally in many ways as they did in the past. But that is not going dissuade me from the path of judicial reforms...

26 February

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The chances of the Mullaperiyar dam breaking, which will lead to washing out of Ernakulam, Kottayam and Allepey districts, is a real danger. Read our petition in Hon’ble Supreme Court of India for urgent remedial action

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SYNOPSIS AND LIST OF DATES The Petitioners are instituting the instant writ petition for he considers that there is a real and imminent threat to the safety of the Mullaperiyar dam and that if the dam were to collapse due to the unprecedented rains or seismic activity, which by no stretch of imagination can be termed as unreasonable or ill-founded apprehension, he along with his family, so too millions of citizens of the state of Kerala will perish.The Mullaperiyar Dam is an over-a-century old gravity dam of 53.6 m in height and a reservoir capacity of 443 million m3. It impounds...

26 February

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Where a statute provides for an appeal against an interim order, is it open to a litigant to choose at his sweet will, a variation at the hands of the court of first instance or to opt for an appeal? Does the doctrine of res judicata have any application?

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(Excerts from an affidavit drafted by Sri. Nedumpara) 1. This Court by its order dated 21.12.2021 was pleased to protect me from dispossession, but subject to the condition that I pay an amount of Rs. 25 lakhs. Had this Court had the benefit of hearing my lawyer, I bonafide believe, that this Court would have protected me without conditions. I sought my counsel’s advice. He told me that I can seek correction of the order before this Court (single bench) itself, or prefer an appeal under Section 5 of the Kerala High Court Act, which provides for an appeal even against...

26 February

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Basic Structure theory is dead and what was found in the NJAC case is its ghost

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Basic structure doctrine is attacked on the premise that it is too vague and hazy, and hence cannot be a ground for determining whether a constitutional amendment is valid or not. Concepts like secularism, republican form of government, independence of judiciary etc. are concepts which are capable of definite meaning and it is absolutely rational to say that the Parliament ought not have the power to abrogate these basic features of the Constitution. There can hardly be two opinions on this aspect. But what has missed the attention of the Court, the government and the lawyers concerned is that the...

26 February

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Letter from Mr. Mathews Nedumpara to CJ – Bombay High Court for Emergent need to constitute sufficient number of Benches to hear bail applications of undertrials

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2nd February, 2019 National Lawyers’ Campaign FOR JUDICIAL TRANSPARENCY & REFORMS Registration No: MH/MUM/1701/2015/GBBSD 304, Hari Chambers, 3rd Floor, 54/68 SBS Marg,Near Old Custom House, Fort, Mumbai- 400 023 Tel: 022 22626634 / Mobile: +91 98205 35428 / +91 9769110823 E. Mail: nationallawyerscampaign@gmail.com Hon'ble Shri Justice N.H. Patil, Chief Justice, High Court of Judicature at Bombay, MUMBAI-400 032. MAY IT PLEASE YOUR LORDSHIP: Sub: Emergent need to constitute sufficient number of Benches to hear bail applications of undertrials – regarding. I address this letter as the president of the National Lawyers’ Campaign for Judicial Transparency and Reforms (NLC), an association of the first generation lawyers who are subjected to discriminatory...

26 February

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Mathews J Nedumpara’s letter to Ratan Tata requesting him not to squander the assets of the Tata Trusts whose beneficial owners are the millions of poor, homeless, jobless, hungry and sick.

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Shri Ratan Tata Chairman TATA Trusts/TATA Sons Ltd. Respected Sir, 1. The Campaign for Home, of which I am the President, has instituted a few proceedings against the TATA Trusts, TATA Sons Ltd. and in the said proceedings you are also arrayed as a Respondent. Despite me holding your gracious self in the highest of esteem, awe and respect, we were constrained to institute legal proceedings, particularly a civil suit in the City Civil Court, Mumbai, because we bona fide believe that the public, the poor, the starving, the homeless, the beneficial owners of the TATA Trusts are denied what is legitimately due to...

26 February

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‘Tribunalisation is trivialisation of Justice’ – abolish it.Review petition of Rambo Fashions Ltd would convince even doubting Thomas’s

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IN THE DEBTS RECOVERY TRIBUNAL-II, MUMBAI Miscellaneous Application No. _______ of 2022 in Interlocutory Application no. 835 of 2021 in S.A. no. 249 of 2018 Rambo Fashions Limited & Ors. … Applicant IN THE MATTER BETWEEN Rambo Fashions Limited & Ors. … Appellant Versus State Bank of India & Ors. … Respondents GENERAL INDEX Sr. No. ParticularsPage No. PART – A AFACT SHEET BLIST OF DATES & EVENTS 1.Application for review 2.Affidavit in Support of Application PART- B 4.List of Documents 5.Exhibit “A” A Copy of the order 21.01.2022 6.Exhibit – “B” A copy of the letter dated 08.08.2011 by M/s. M.V Kini & Co 7.Exhibit – “C” A copy of the IA...

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Are not PILs ‘Ravenous wolves in sheep’s clothing?’

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To 1. Hon'ble Mr. Justice NV Ramana Chief Justice of India Also to, Hon'ble Mr. Manohar Lal Khattar Chief Minister of Haryana Sub: Demolition of the shanties of thousands of migrant laborers and urban poor, in the implementation of a judgement of the Supreme Court in purported PILs, rendered entirely behind their back. I have been on a campaign since 2010, when I first came to Bombay as a stranger, after being in the Bar for more than 25 years. It may appear strange to your Lordship, the campaign I started was for the "cry of the poor" to borrow an expression from Justice Krishna Iyer, to...

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