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

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

Posted by Mathews J Nedumpara

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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 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...

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Sabarimala case

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SABARIMALA CASEParturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus-Mathews J Nedumpara9.2.2020 The National Ayyappa Devotees’ Association (NADA) was the first entity to challenge the judgment of the Five-Judge Constitution Bench in WP No. 373/2006 (the Sabarimala case) holding that Rule 3(b) of the Kerala Places of Public Worship (Authorization of Entry) Rules, 1965, which restricts women of menstruating age from entering the shrine of Lord Ayyappa at Sabarimala, as unconstitutional. The Review Petition filed by it was the second of the large number of Review Petitions seeking review of the judgment in the Sabarimala case. In the petition instituted under Article 32, the NADA...

11 January

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Open Letter: A Call for Abolishing the Senior Designation in the Legal Profession

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Open Letter: A Call for Abolishing the Senior Designation in the Legal Profession Mathews J Nedumpara 98205 35428 11.01.2023. Open letter Dear Ms. Indira Jaising, Sub: Abolition of senior designation- reg. When it comes to transparency and reforms in judiciary, there are certain areas where we are in agreement, though there are serious differences in many other areas. On the topic of abolition of senior designation I was under impression that we agreed and on the question of abolition of the collegium we are poles apart. While you support the system of entitlement, patronage, nepotism, dynasty, of which the collegium has become a synonym, I believe that...

02 June

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CAMPAIGN FOR HOME FOR ALL

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CAMPAIGN FOR HOME FOR ALL Mathews J Nedumpara 2nd June, 2019 To 1. Hon'ble Sri Pinarayi Vijayan, Chief Minister of Kerala, 141, 3rd Floor, North Block, Government Secretariat, Thiruvananthapuram – 695001 2. Hon'ble Sri Ramesh Chennithala, Leader of Opposition, Kerala. 3. Hon'ble Shri Harindersingh Puri, Union Minister for Housing, New Delhi. 4. Hon'ble Sri Muraleedharan, Minister of State for External Affairs, New Delhi. 5. Shri K.K. Venugopal, Attorney General of India, New Delhi. Honourable Sirs, I address your Honourable Sirs as the President of the Campaign for Home for All, an NGO registered under the Maharashtra Public Trusts Act, which work for the cause of the millions who live in slums, matchbox-like tenements, dilapidated buildings and the homeless. 2. The judgment of the...

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

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

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

Sabarimala case

Open Letter: A Call for Abolishing the Senior Designation in the Legal Profession

CAMPAIGN FOR HOME FOR ALL

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