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WHEN the country is celebrating the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi on 2nd October 2026 it is of crucial significance to hark back to his vision articulated in 1937 that voting age in India should be fixed for all eligible voters at the age of 21 or 18.
MANY who had hitherto no concern with Council elections will be shortly called upon to vote for the reformed Councils. The powers, too, of elected members will be found to have increased.
Gandhis understanding that right to vote as a form of direct action against powers that be and Ambedkars interpretation of adult suffrage as right to active and direct participation to sustain associated life gets shattered by a compromised ECI
THE SUPREME COURT has ruled that once an arrest of an accused is quashed for want of non-supply of grounds of arrest, the accused could only be re-arrested with the permission of the magistrate. A Bench of Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and Atul S. Chandurkar handed down the ruling on a petition challenging the order of the Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissing the petition filed by the appellant by holding that the investigating agency cannot be prohibited from seeking warrants of arrest against the
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