In the early years of the 20th century, Russia was in a troubled state. Nicholas II, who was Tsar from 1894 to 1917, insisted on ruling as an autocrat but had failed to deal adequately with the country's many problems.
During the early 1970s the high economic growth came to an end. One of the reasons was decline of Japanese competitiveness in certain industries such as shipbuilding and steel.
Any further delay in ordering the release of the seven convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case will run the risk of the state falling foul of Article 14 of the Constitution which says that it “shall not deny to any person equality before the law or the equal protection of the laws”.
The Supreme Court has struck down a colonial-era law -Section 497 of the IPC- that made adultery punishable with a jail term and a fine. Now, it is only a ground for divorce.
In August 2017, the Supreme Court declared the right to privacy a fundamental right. This judgement made many transparency advocates apprehensive, fearing that the right to privacy might be deployed first and foremost to shield authorities from scrutiny by citizens.
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