Department of Law
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The Institution was established as University Law College and was housed in the building of Arts. In the year 2000, it was upgraded to the status of a Department of University of North Bengal with a separate, distinct and prestigious location.
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Item Open Access Duties or Rights: Should Duties Trump over Rights?(University of North Bengal, 2023-03) Sharma, Ajay Kr.Narrative is emerging in India that appears to be giving primacy to the fundamental duties of the citizens over their fundamental rights. This article attempts to understand and flesh out the significance of these two, their relationship, and the interplay between them, as contextualised in our Constitutional scheme, with the help of various Supreme Court decisions. It indulges in a discussion on the pragmatic functional relationship between Parts III, IV, and IV-A of the Constitution. It also brings various significant perspectives on the ‘right-duty’ relationship to the fore, to objectively appreciate the primary importance of the fundamental rights of the citizens and the State’s duty to preserve and protect the same. It also emphasises on the importance, weighty role, and the constitutional obligations of the higher courts in preserving the Constitution and the rule of law, by providing effective redress to the aggrieved citizens who bring valid claims of their fundamental rights violations by the State organs and instrumentalities.Item Open Access Judicial Independence and Impartiality: A Sinking Belief(University of North Bengal, 2020-09) Naveed Naseem; Qayoom, ShaistaFor efficient working of a republican setup rooted totally on Rule of law, an unbiased and impartial judiciary is indispensable. The percept of judicial independence and impartiality has brought greater significance in the countries with written constitutions, where the executive has been conferred with wide authority to sprint the government and the likelihood of abuse of such power is considerably high. In a country like India where judiciary is regarded as the watchdog of democracy, it undoubtedly becomes essential that judges in their individual capacities and the judiciary as a whole are unbiased and neutral of all interior and exterior influences in order to guard and shield the philosophical and conceptual phrases used in the preamble of the Indian Constitution. Besides, an impartial and independent choice mechanism is a sure safeguard for ensuring that persons with dubious integrity do not occupy high judicial offices, thereby enhancing public’s have faith and self assurance in justice delivery mechanism of the country. Considering the significance which an unelected judiciary wheels in our system, the screening of judges to man the superior courts cannot be confined to mere technical and professional competence and their approaches and philosophies have to be screened extensively. The paper attempts to reflect the significance adhered to the principle of independent and impartial judiciary and the urgency to defend and hold such standards earlier than its dimensions turn into just indistinct and academic concepts. The continuous government stalling in the appointment of judges to the Superior Courts, nominating judges to political offices and occasionally unscrupulous conduct by some judges in the recent past, where judiciary on most part seemed to side with the executive, has raised questions on independent and impartial identity of judiciary. Should we permit the constitutional democracy to live to tell the tale or the authoritarian rule to be allowed is these days the important query before the masters of the country.