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MEALS Food product companies have I AM THE misled consumers long enough and can no more continue their slew of SPECTRUM misinformation. 20 RAJA In a scathing expose of the telecom czars, the PMO and investigators, former minister A Raja tells his side of the events that led to his TheThetThheeet trumped-uptrumprumperruummpepedudd--upupup euphoriaeueeupeuphoupphophhoririaciaciaa continuescoontiontinontntinnuuesssb butbutmuutt muchmmuucchh jailing and ongoing trial 26 remainsreeemmmamaiaiinnssts toto bebede ddoneoneonneet totoob boostboboob ostgrsstt grggrowthoowthwwth andaanddanndddd ddevelopmenteeveveloveeelooppmmentmemeenentnt 222 CENSORSHIP: JUSTICE VYAPAM SPECIAL: Thumbs up DHINGRA: HORROR: Kashmir’s for Ambedkar- Man 32 dead teleterrorism 44 ALS0 Periyar Study behind and still Group 36 Vadra land counting 50 MISSING COMPANIES: MASARAT RELEASE: probe 46 Will the law catch up?54 Fueling separatism? 40 What constitutes a corporate favor? 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Ajith Pillai talks to lawyers, judges, cops 16 Lalit Modi Pachauri’s Ramesh DEFAMATION LAW: ignoble Menon tells Strange bedfellows 28 Vipin Pubby NJAC: ONE RANK INDIRA JAISING BANK NEW TARGETS: exit from you how to Festering ONE unplugged: 40 LIQUIDITY: Successful Dalits TERI make an controversy PENSION: Where’s 57 38 online will 10 Soldier the money and rest in writes to the honey? peace 63 chief justice 44 RK Misra of India 48 Special Issue LETTER FROM THE EDITOR INDERJIT BADHWAR A FRESH AVATAR RITING the year-end edit is often a lone- impacts the day-to-day functioning of modern India, ly and onerous task. This is largely the creature of a long-drawn out, hotly-debated consti- because, through the year, magazines tutional exercise. have their ups and downs in terms of the Obviously, we focused, keeping in mind the need to W quality, merit, credibility, display and uphold the highest standards of writing on the courts, power of the stories they run. So, finding the best from the Supreme Court and activities of bar associations among them to feature in a special edition requires and councils, ensuring that we missed no develop- exceptional diligence and institutional memory. And ments. Covering stories involving judicial accountabi- the editors of India Legal have been up to their necks in lity remained a primary focus. Most of our stories are the process of choosing, and dropping, and adding. written by big name journalists from India and abroad. The final result in on the cover. Actually the task Our special task is to brief them in detail so was both easy as well as excruciatingly difficult. Easy, that they do not miss out on spe- because most of the stories from which we chose had cial legal angles or the fun- quality and focus. Difficult, because notwithstanding damental legal base of the editorial merit of the story under consideration, we the stories we were faced with the task of determining how accurately commission. the article reflected India Legal’s USP. There was little doubt in any reader’s mind as soon as our magazine hit the stands with its first edition, that the market was witnessing a genuinely new prod- uct that stood out of the clutter. The name itself sug- gested a whiff of change. The moment you picked it up and began leafing through it, the first impression you received was that contrary to what it sounded like, India legal was not a technical legal manual or a newsstand version of Manupatra. It was, in fact, a hard core newsy, current affairs maga- zine containing investigations and contro- versies with a solid legal angle that would be of special interest not only to lawyers and judges—the core audience—but also to general readers, MPs, politicians, students, diplomats and think tanks trying to make sense of how the rule of law, natural justice, judicial precedents, case histories, judicial activism and accountability 4 January 15, 2016 of In case they fail to meet this requirement, India India Legal is about justice, exposing Legal’s editorial board approaches some of the nation’s senior most lawyers and retired judges to provide us corruption and charlatans, taking a guidance. It is small wonder then—thanks to the magazine’s growing credibility with this difficult-to- critical stance on legal matters of please but powerful community—that we were able to national and constitutional importance. carry interviews with the Union Law Minister and the Chief Justice of India on the cover of the same issue of any major story that has caught national attention in the magazine. the recent past or currently, it stems either from the courts and judiciary, or contains a major legal angle. s we have spread our wings and our reach with Let’s name a few—the NJAC debate, the Nirbhaya story the support of a portal run by a special team which led to the passing of the Juvenile Justice Act, the Aand are bringing more and more legal stories to CBI’s raid on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s our sister concern—APN-TV—and are planning to add office and the attacks and counter attacks on the cor- an additional channel—India Legal TV—to our group, ruption within the DDCA, stringent rape laws, the vis- we have expanded our reporting and editorial staff to itors’ list in the former CBI chief’s diary, the still-con- include law students and trained lawyers who will tinuing attempts to implicate Prime Minister Modi and report not only from the capital but from every major his number two Amit Shah in the 2002 Gujarat riots, city and region in India. the brouhaha over Netaji Bose’s files, Yakub Memon’s Ultimately, our magazine is not for, of, and by hanging and the recrudescence of the death penalty lawyers—even though this community is now increas- debate, the Supreme Court’s activism as well as initial ingly involved in its content creation. It is about justice, steps taken by the Kejriwal government to check diesel exposing corruption and charlatans, taking a pollution levels and the Nestle noodles debate. critical stance on legal matters of national and consti- These are the stories the nation is talking about. tutional importance. It was in this spirit that we ran a These are the stories we covered. Reading them again lead editorial on the Supreme Court’s prolix they are definitely not old wine in new bottles. They are ruling on the National Judicial new wines in new bottles. Let me cite an example from Appointments Commission, this issue. Veteran Kalyani Shankar has penned an titled “Your Lordships, We analysis of why it is always premature to write off the Beg To Differ.” Nehru-Gandhi dynasty no matter how politically down Actually, if and out it may be.