Adv. Mustafa Pathan

Advocate & Arbitrator

[LegallySpeakingTarun @Tarunnangia]

Justice Ujjal Bhuyan Says 2024 Delhi Metro Judgment Caused “Most Extensive Damage” To Arbitration In India

In a candid assessment, Supreme Court Judge Justice Ujjal Bhuyan stated that the Supreme Court’s 2024 judgment in Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. v. Delhi Airport Metro Express Pvt. Ltd. (DAMEPL) has caused “the most extensive damage to arbitration in India”, weakening India’s aspiration to emerge as a global arbitration hub.

Speaking at a lecture titled “Arbitration in India: Reform, Relevance & the Road Ahead”, organised by The Law Forum, Justice Bhuyan observed that the judgment sent shockwaves across the arbitration community and was followed by a series of Union Government policy decisions discouraging arbitration in high-value commercial disputes.

Justice Bhuyan also expressed concern over increasing judicial interference in arbitral awards, cautioning that such developments risk reversing years of legislative reforms aimed at making India an arbitration-friendly jurisdiction.

[Bar and Bench @barandbench]

Supreme Court Justice Ujjal Bhuyan, Delhi High Court Justice C. Hari Shankar and Justice (retd) Rajiv Shakdher to speak on arbitration reforms at an event organised by The Law Forum today.

[Rammanohar Reddy @ramreddy]

.@gautambhatia88 writes about what has emerged from the way the Supreme Court handled the SIR case:
judicial evasion, executive constitutionalism, disregard of precedent, and “Franken constitutionalism”
#supremecourt #SIR
https://t.co/VssxIF3KUn

[Revenue Department, Government of Maharashtra @maharevenue]

शेतजमीन व कुळकायदा सुधारणांच्या प्रभावी अंमलबजावणीसाठी महत्त्वपूर्ण मार्गदर्शक सूचना जारी

मुख्यमंत्री देवेंद्र फडणवीस यांच्या सूचनेनुसार आणि महसूल मंत्री चंद्रशेखर बावनकुळे यांच्या मार्गदर्शनाखाली राज्य शासनाने 'महाराष्ट्र कुळवहिवाट व शेतजमीन कायदे (सुधारणा) अधिनियम २०२६' च्या प्रभावी अंमलबजावणीसाठी नवीन मार्गदर्शक सूचना जारी केल्या आहेत. (१/२)

#RevenueDepartment #ChandrashekharBawankule #DevendraFadnavis #LandReforms #FarmerWelfare #कुळकायदा #शेतजमीन #जमीनसुधारणा

[The Wire @thewire_in]

Muslim Schoolboys Tied to Pole, Beaten by Maratha Men, Latur Police File FIR Against Victims First

@sukanyashantha ✍️

https://t.co/XjurAZx2px

[Pragnya Gupta @GuptaPragnya]

Citizenship: Foreigner Until Proven Otherwise?
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Dr Niraja Jayal on NRC, SIR & CAA

Are Indians slowly being asked to prove they belong in their own country? Political scientist and citizenship scholar Dr Niraja Jayal delivers a powerful address on how India's founding idea of citizenship — a presumption that you belong — is being replaced by what she calls a "presumption of alienage": the assumption that a person is a foreigner until proven otherwise.

In this speech, Dr Niraja Jayal discusses:

The shift from jus soli (citizenship by birth) to conditional citizenship
The Citizenship Act amendments of 2003 and 2019

How the NRC, SIR, CAA and the passport controversy connect

The burden of proof: state versus individual

The Foreigners Act of 1946 and its colonial legacy
Citizenship, welfare access and voting rights

What a reconstruction of equal citizenship could look like

This address was delivered at the Constitutional Conduct Group conclave on 'One Nation-One Election, Federalism and Citizenship' at the Constitution Club of India, New Delhi, on 4 July 2026.

A very worthy read and an absolute eye opener for many who know very little about the vile, vicious and most corrupt processes initiated by the GoI.

#Citizenship #CitizenshipProof #SIR #NRC #Reels

[SABAR Institute @SabarInstitute_]

🚨Of the 27 lakh-plus electors deleted from West Bengal’s “Under Adjudication” list, mostly over alleged "logical discrepancies", 70.17% are Muslims, while 51% are women.

Sabar Institute is releasing a public repository of West Bengal's SIR Supplementary Deletion List, classified by religion and gender, so citizens, journalists, and researchers can independently examine how this process has affected different communities.

The 27 lakh+ deletions mostly include electors flagged for reasons like having 6+ children, minor name/parent-name mismatches, or an age gap with a parent under 15 years.

This was built with crowd-funding, a team of three (@sabirahamedgd , @Souptik_H , @Ashin_econ) working on three laptops, with help from our intern @mallick_so63507.

We're now taking on religious classification of the ASDD list next. That work needs support to continue.
If this is useful to you, please consider supporting us via the link below.

Support our work : https://t.co/6fjjRemgcR
Data Repository : https://t.co/YzZIJyg2oe

#DataForBetterLives

[Bar and Bench @barandbench]

CJI Surya Kant flags non-constitution of Arbitration Council of India six years after passage of law

Read here: https://t.co/WZgtWp1wGu

[मो0 उमर अंसारी ❤️🇮🇳❤️ @MdUmarA53694185]

SIR गणना प्रपत्र भरने का सही तरीका बताया गया है l
@ECISVEEP
#SIR

[Bar and Bench @barandbench]

Legal Notes by Arvind Datar: The Impact of US Constitutional Law

Author: Arvind P. Datar, Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of India.

Read column: https://t.co/nkRgrvpsFe

[PKR | প্রশান্ত | پرشانتو @prasanto]

Justice Madan Lokur at the Conclave on Federalism and Citizenship at the Constitution Club - some great points here (excerpting only his comments on Citizenship)

The Preamble and the Passports Act

The preamble to the Passports Act states that it is an Act to provide for the issue of passports and travel documents, and to regulate the departure from India of citizens of India and other persons.

The preamble itself, as well as the Act, makes a clear distinction between a passport and a travel document. Both are separately defined within the Passports Act.

Now, Parliament does not make laws and use superfluous words or words that have no meaning. That is a well-settled principle. Therefore, when the Passports Act talks about a passport and a travel document, it means these are two separate documents. To say that a passport is nothing but a travel document is a complete misreading of the provisions of the Passports Act.

The first thing that should be clarified is that since this is a complete misreading, a person who holds an Indian passport is a citizen of India. That should be made very clear.

The Global Implications for Citizens

Look at it from the point of view of an embassy or a consulate outside the country. You go to an embassy for a visa because you want to travel abroad, and the officer there says:

"I am giving this visa to you on the basis that you are a citizen of India. But your Ministry of External Affairs says that the document you are presenting to me is not a passport and does not certify that you are a citizen of India. So, I'm sorry, I cannot give you a visa."

What happens in a situation like that? The officer will say, "You are presenting to me a travel document. I want a passport which says that you are a citizen of India. Your government says that this passport you are showing me is not proof that you are a citizen of India, so I am not giving you a visa."

Does it mean that all the Indians who have gone abroad to Europe, the United States, and so on, are persons who are not citizens of India? Just because they have a passport, it doesn't mean anything at all?

Effectively, the passport is reduced to a ticket—not even an airline ticket, but perhaps a bus ticket or something that merely entitles you to travel from one destination to another destination, and nothing more. With great respect to the officer in the Ministry, saying something like this is totally contrary to the law and totally contrary to the Constitution of India.

Section 20 of the Passports Act

The third thing that people have been saying—and they have said so on TV—is that Section 20 of the Passports Act enables the Government of India to give a passport to a person who is not a citizen of India. Fair enough, it does.

But how many people who are not citizens of India have been given passports of India? We don't know. I would be surprised if there is anybody who has been given an Indian passport who is admittedly a foreigner and not a citizen of India.

So, to say that Section 20 enables that is neither here nor there because we don't even have the facts. We don't know how many such people have got passports, who those people are, and what the circumstances were in which such a passport was given. We don't know anything about this. So Section 20, in a sense, is a dead letter—at least on the evidence that is available today.

The Analogy of the Bharat Ratna

Take something like the Bharat Ratna. It can be given to a foreign citizen. How many foreigners have actually received the Bharat Ratna? Just two: Nelson Mandela and Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan. That's it.

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[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇵🇸 The anonymous collective Israel Exposed has launched a searchable online archive of Gaza genocide documentation. They said it contains over 64,500 videos, 17,900 photos, geolocation data, a live map, a victim database, and a source index spanning more than 300 journalists. The group says more material will be added over time. Link to access is below ⬇️

[The Indian Express @IndianExpress]

‘India should know, if we don’t act on the evidence against Israel, we can’t redeem ourselves’: Justice Muralidhar https://t.co/8JQe5Oqu2b

[Scroll.in @scroll_in]

The roll revision showed that exclusionary processes can affect even privileged Muslims, said the scholar. “We are in limbo. We don’t know what kind of rules they will make for people who have no voting rights,” he added. “This is slow poisoning.” https://t.co/738OMEPSwS

@AnantGuptaAG reports

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"The hardest decision we had to make in completing this report was.. not to name the Palestinian children, whose deaths, injuries & suffering we describe.. we didn't name them because we feared the consequences for their families"

He means Israel would go after them too.

[Manu Sebastian @manuvichar]

The Centre didn’t want to give Muralidhar a much deserved elevation to the Supreme Court; but that led him to make even greater contributions to humanity

[Live Law @LiveLawIndia]

According to the report, more than 20,000 Palestinian children have been killed and over 44,000 injured since October 7, 2023.
Read more: https://t.co/1EZS0JCYlx
#UnitedNations #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #UN

[UN Human Rights Council Investigative Bodies @uninvhrc]

Israeli forces have killed over 20,000 children & injured 44,000 more since 7 Oct. 2023, Srinivasan Muralidhar, chair of the @UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory & Israel, told reporters today. #HRC62

More on their new report ➡️ https://t.co/gK2KhtlgFb

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

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