October 2019

Best Wishes and Congratulations to Prof. (Dr.) V.C. Vivekanandan, Founding Dean, School of Law Bennett

University for joining Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur as its Vice Chancellor w.e.f. 11th September

2019.

Volume 3, Issue 1 Newsletter

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Editor's Desk

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This issue of Law byrinth

showcases the activities and

achievements of the School of

Law, Bennett University from

July 2018 to October 2018.

Dr. Garima Tiwari, Asst

Professor Law byrinth takes

this opportunity to welcome

P r o f . ( D r . ) S r i d h a r

Acharyulu, Former Central

Information Commissioner as

the Acting Dean of the School

of Law, Bennett University.

S e v e r a l n o t i c a b l e

developments took place in this

session. Faculty strength saw

an expansion. Further, School

of Law commenced one new

section each for BA LLB

(Hons) and BBA LLB (Hons).

two new programmes were

started in the law school

namely: Three LLB (Hons)

c o u r s e a n d t h e P h . D .

programme.

The School of law organised

several workshops for the

students on important areas

like commercial negotiation,

intellectual property rights,

d i g i t a l m a r k e t s a n d

international law mooting.

Socratic Club Lecture and Post

Truth Seminar series were also

organised. The faculty

members as well as the

students participated in several

national and international

conferences and had their

research published. Students

also participated in several

moot court competitions, client

counseling competitions,

debates, legal aid activities,

photowalk and law fests. Law

School also welcomed faculty

from foreign universities for

guest lectures and oganised an

LL. M fair for its students.

Law byrnith would also like to

congratulate Prof. V. C.

Vivekanandan, Former Dean,

School of Law for being

appointed as the Vice-

Chancellor of the Hidayatullah

National Law University,

Raipur.

Thus, the newsletter will act as

a platform through which the

law community can appreciate

the excellence and the lively

nature of the activities that take

place at the law school.

Dr. Garima Tiwari

Assistant Professor, School of

Law, Bennett University

1. Dean Speak 3

2. Orientation Day Programme 5

3. Workshops and Seminars 5

4. Post Truth: Faculty Seminar Series 6

5. Guest Lectures and Visits 6

6. Mooting point 7

7. Student Achievements, andParticipation 9

8. Visitors at BU-SOL

9. Moot Point

10. Face of the School of Law 13

11. Student Corner 13

12. Ph.D. Programme 16

13. Faculty in News 17

14. Welcoming New Faculty 19

15. Galleria

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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We, the Citizens of India…

The State

State & Government

Purpose of 'state'

The citizens

Sridhar Acharyulu, 1.1.2020

The founder of political science,Aristotle says that a person is acitizen who takes active part in theadministrative affairs of the city-state. In modern concept of the state,the meaning of citizen and hisfunctions expanded by leaps andbounds. Who is a citizen and what isstate? How the statelessness needsto be tackled? The Government isthe mighty power in any nation. Ithas in its control the army, police, allkinds of armed forces, people'smoney and absolute sovereignpower, while its people areconsidered its 'subject's. True. Theyare subjects! Subjects are subject towhat- to taxes, to punishments underlaw, to the rule, to their ideas ofgovernance or their electionmanifesto? Human beings aresubjects! What a pathetic meaning!Is it not inhuman to call people'subjects'? We must examinewhether human rights are violated.

What is 'state'? Max Weber'sdefinition describes the state as acompulsory political organizationwith a centralized government thatmaintains a monopoly of thelegitimate use of force within acertain territory.

Most powerful state institutions areadministrative bureaucracies, legalsystems, and military or religiousorganizations. According to theOxford English Dictionary, a state is" a . a n o rg a n i z e d p o l i t i c a lcommunity under one government;

a commonwealth; a nation. b. such acommunity forming part of a federalrepublic, esp the United States ofAmerica". The State is anorganization. The Governments areorganizations of people. Therelationship between a governmentand its state is one of representationand authorized agency (Crawford, J.(2007) The Creation of States inI n t e r n a t i o n a l L a w. O x f o r dUniversity Press.). But the peopleuse 'state' as 'government' and viceversa. They are not synonyms.

A state can be distinguished from agovernment. The state is theorganization while the governmentis the particular group of people, theadministrative bureaucracy thatcontrols the state apparatus at agiven time.

The governments are the meansthrough which state power isemployed, used mostly in excess.States are served by a continuouss u c c e s s i o n o f d i f f e r e n tgovernments. States are immaterialand nonphysical social objects,whereas governments are groups ofpeople with certain coercivepowers. Before 'state' is used inpolitical sense, it has ordinarymeaning l ike 'condi t ion orcircumstances'. When Roman lawrevised it explained the status ofKing and other ranks and classes ofpeople. During the Cicero days the"status rei publicae" meant the"condition of public matters". Theword 'state' was popularised by thefamous writer Machiavelli's in 16thCentury, especially 'the prince'. Theneed for separating 'church' from'state' was advocated for more than400 years. In 1630s the NorthAmerican colonies were called'states'. It is attributed to Louis XIVof France using the expressionL'Etat, c'est moi (I am the State) in18th century. Very interestingly it isbelieved that the 'state exists todefend the ruling class's claims toprivate property.

John Locke explains that the goal ofthe state/commonwealth was "thepreservation of property" (SecondTreatise on Government), with'property' in Locke's work referringnot only to personal possessions butalso to one's life and liberty. Thehistory of 'state' could be tracedwhen they were created in the FertileC r e s c e n t , I n d i a , C h i n a ,Mesoamerica, the Andes, ando t h e r s . I n c o n t e m p o r a r ydevelopments of conflict and strifeworld is suffering from the problemof refugees and migration. Now weare in a situation to realise thei m p o r t a n c e o f s t a t e a n dstatelessness.

The state or the Government shouldhave living relationship with the'people', who are also called'subjects' or 'citizens' or 'civilsociety'. The state is contrasted withcivil society. Anarchists considerthat the state possesses themonopoly on the legal use ofviolence. The news around nowconfirms this. Professor Laskidescribes who the citizen is: “Aperson is a citizen who enjoys thefacilities of the state and paysobedience to state.” In the context ofthese concepts we can define that aperson is a citizen who lives in thestate permanently, owes allegianceto state, wants the welfare of thestate and enjoys all the social andpolitical rights given by the state.The citizens, as the members ofstate, enjoy the state given status. Incivics, it is called citizenship. Thatis; citizenship is the virtue or statusof the citizens. We are citizens ofIndia, not just the subjects. We arenot a set of illiterate beings. Theworld should know that we arev i b r a n t , e m p o w e r e d a n denlightened citizens, and, of course,the well-informed netizens!

DEAN SPEAK

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Prof. V.C. Vivekanandan, Founding Dean School

of Law appointed as the Vice Chancellor of HNLU Raipur

School of Law, Bennett University congratulates

Prof. (Dr.) V.C. Vivekanandan, Founding Dean

of School of Law, Bennett University for being

appointed as the Vice Chancellor of the

Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur

w.e.f. 11.09.2019. The Bennett law faculty took a

resolution in a meeting thanking Prof.

Vivekanandan for his support, guidance and

contribution in leading the School of Law,

Bennett University towards success.

Prof. (Dr.) V.C. Vivekanandan

Hon’ble Vice-Chancellar, HNLU

Prof. V.C. Vivekanandan with first batch of law students on

teacher’s day celebration

Prof. V.C. Vivekanandan with Law Faculty and Board

of Studies Member

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ORIENTATION DAY PROGRAMME

Prof. (Dr.) V. KesavaRao, Vice Chancellor ofNational University ofStudy and Research inLaw, Ranchi gave alecture at the Orientationday of the new batch oflaw students on the topic,“ The Future Lawyer- AFive Year Odyssey” on

19 July 2019. After theaddress by the guest, the Bennett law faculty andsenior students interacted with the new students aboutthe law school, its different committees, activities andfacilities available for them.

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SOL organized its8thSocratic Lectures e r i e s w i t h acontinuing objectiveo f i n v i t i n gc o n t e m p o r a r ythinkers to debate onpublic policy andissues impacting us.

The invited Guestspeaker here was

Dr. Aman Hingorani,Advocate on record and mediator, Supreme Court of India.The Topic of Lecture was ‘UNRAVELLING THEKASHMIR KNOT’

Dr. Hingorani

delivering the Socratic Club Lecture

Workshop of Commercial Negotiation

SOCRATIC CLUB LECTURE

Mr. Vasant Chandra

WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS ORGANISED AT SCHOOL OF LAW,BENNETT UNIVERSITY

1. Seminar on Law and Digital Market

2. Workshop of Commercial Negotiation

3. Workshop on intellectual Property Rights

5. Workshop on International Law Mooting

Dr. Vikas Kathuria,Senior Research Fellowat the Max PlanckInstitute for Competitionand Regulation and aformer faculty at Schoolo f L a w , B e n n e t tUniversity conducted atwo-day student seminaron “Law and Digital

Markets” for the law students on 12 and 13 August 2019.

Workshop on Com-mercial Negotiation byJonathan Rodrigues,Accredited/CertifiedMediator (IICA, IIAM,PSMA), Co-founder andPartner, The PACT forsecond year students was

organised on 7 , 8 , 28

and 29 September 2019.The faculty in charge of the same were Mr. Arpan Acharya,Ms. Prachi Tyagi and Ms.Aafreen Collaco.

School of Law, Centre forLaw, Technology andInnovations organised aWorkshop on 1st October2019 for SOL students onIntel lectual PropertyRights in collaborationw i t h t h e T r a i n e rO r g a n i s a t i o n -TRADEMARKCLICK, Resource person Mr Vasant Chandra,Head Operation & product and Mr Rishi Bansal,Advocate andmanaging associate. The workshop aimed at understandingthe scope, type and enforcement of Intellectual Property.

School of Law, Centrefor Law, Technologya n d I n n o v a t i o n sorganised a two-dayW o r k s h o p o nCompetition Law on15th October and 5thNovember 2109. Theguests were Ms.Ya k s h i J . S i n g hC h a u h a n D e p u t yDirector, Law, Competi t ion Commi ssion of Indiaand Mr. Pranav Satyam Deputy Director, Economics,Competition Commission of India. The purpose of theworkshop was to enable participants to understand thepurpose of regulating competition in market, role ofcompetition commission of India and further to understandthe sectoral analysis of competition law.

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T h e M o o t C o u r tCommi t t ee o f theS c h o o l o f L a worganised a workshopon International LawM o o t i n g w i t h M rH a r s h i t M a l i kAdvocate Supremecourt of India on 19th

and 20 October 2019to enable the students tounderstand the intricacies of oral arguments andpresentation skills. Also, to prepare them forInternational Law Moots.

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Seminar on Law and Digital MarketWorkshop on Competition Law

Workshop on International Law

Mooting

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POST TRUTH FACULTY SEMINAR SERIES

GUEST LECTURES AND VISITS AT SCHOOL OF LAW,

BENNETT UNIVERSITY

1. The 8 Post Truth faculty seminar at SOL wasdelivered by Dr. Vikas Kathuria, Senior ResearchFellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation andCompetition, Munich. The Topic was “The Evil of

Data-driven Technology: on the 14 August 2019.

2. The 9 Post-Truth faculty seminar lecture wasdelivered by Mr. Arpan Acharya, Assistant Professor,

School of Law, Bennett University, 3 October 2019.

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1. Ms Pracheta Jaitely, Program Advisor at ProjectsAbroad in India visited the School of law for sharingthe Internship opportunities for the Law students on

25 June 2019.

2. Dr. Selvi Ganesh, Associate Professor at AmboUniversity, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia visited the School

of Law, Bennett University on 5 September 2019 anddelivered a guest lecture on “Academics as a careeroption for legal professionals”.

3. Mr Stephen Levett, a faculty from York Law School

visited the School of Law Bennett University on 9September 2019 and took a guest lecture on “Howtechnology might change the way law is done” for thethird-year students. Ms. Mahima who is the SeniorRecruitment Advisor at the University of York IndiaOffice elaborated on the entry requirements for theLLM programme.

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Dr. Selvi Ganesh, Associate Professor, Ambo University,

Ethiopia

Mr. Stephen Levett from York Law School

Dr . Vikas Kathuria with BU Law Faculty

Mr. Arpan Acharya on Judicial Myth-Making

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MOOT POINT

1. The Moot Court Committee conducted itsempanelment rounds for selecting teams to representthe School of Law in national and international mootsin 2019-20 with a Constitutional Law mootproposition challenging twenty teams from the Batchof 2017-22 and 2018-23. Adv. Sayan Ray, Adv.Ashutosh, Adv. Mayank Sapra and Adv. ArjunNatarajan judged these rounds.

2. Second year students of BALLB (Hons.) BhavyaBose, Vedant Bhargava and Riya Kharab participated

in Shri J P Gupta Memorial - 3 AUMP National MootCourt Competition 2019 held from 26th to 29thSeptember 2019. The team won the first preliminaryround by defeating GLC Indore. Student Riya Kharab

secured 2 position in the researcher's test. The moot

was based on Criminal Law.

3. Team of Tanvi, Sushmita and Ishaan (Batch of 2018-23) participated in the Criminal & Constitutional LawMoot at RGNUL Patiala reached the quarterfinals and

obtained a rank of 7 out of 46 teams in the

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4. Senior Eminent Faculty Dr. Oliver Quick from theUniversity of Bristol-United Kingdom, visited thelaw school and delivered a lecture on Medicine, Law,

and Malpractice on 28 September 2019.

5. School of Law, Bennett University was visited by theUniversity of Brunel, University of Bristol andManchester Metropolitan University, UnitedKingdom for LL.M and student exchange information

session on 17 October 2019.

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Dr. Oliver Quick, University of Bristol

Moot Empanelment Rounds

LL.M. Fair at BU-Law School

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4. Third-year BBALLB (Hons) students Kunal, Ishan,

and Kanika participated in the 5 Manipal Ranka

National Moot Court Competition 2019 held on 28

and 29 September 2019 and achieved 6 position outof 24 teams. The moot was based on arbitration andInsolvency Law.

5. Jaanvi, Kalyani and Kriti, students of second year of

BBA LLB (Hons), participated in the 3 NationalMoot Court competition 'VaKTavya', held at theUniversity Institute of Legal Studies at Chandigarh

University from 10 to 12 October 2019.

6. Students of second year BA.LLB(Hons) Abhay DevSharma, Pratyus Sarangi and Ipsita Kundu

participated in the 2 edition of the National Moot

Court Competition 2019 from 18 to 20 October2019 at Amity Law School, Mumbai. The team

secured 6 position among the 50 teams participated.The moot was based on Constitution and Criminallaw.

7. Mansi, Agnivesh and Raunak Sood, 2 year students(BBA-LLB Hons) participated in the National MootCourt competition held at IIMT University, Greater

Noida from 18 to 20 October 2019.

8. Palak, Swadheena and Krishna Iyer, third year law

students, participated in the 5 Amity PaperlessInternational Moot Court competition in its Noida

campus on 18 and 19 October 2019 based onInternational Criminal Law.

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STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS AND PARTICIPATION

1. Aakaansha Arya and Siddharth Raj Choudhary, 3

year BBALLB (Hons) students won the 3 Dr. A P JAbdul Kalam International Socio-Legal Film MakingCompetition – 2019 for their film titled, 'BreakingStereotypes - Make you bleed” in June 2019.

2. Apoorva Mehta(3 -year student,School of Law,Bennett University) was a part of the Organising

Committee of the 2 Annual Conference on Medico-Legal Issues and Use of Forensics in CriminalInvestigation organized by the Legal Desire Media

and Publications on 21 July 2019.

3. ThirdYear law students Sanjana and Kanika, first-yearBBA LLB (Hons) students- Riya Soni and DivyanshuMishra and first-year BALLB(Hons )-student

Rupanshi participated in the 2 Indian Law Conclaveorganized by Adhrit Foundation, an Alexis Grouporganization at International Youth Hostel New Delhi

from 10 - 11 August 2019. Riya Soni and DivyanshuMishra presented the paper titled, “InformationTechnology Act, 2000 and the Indian Evidence Act,1872: Emergence of a New Profession.” at theConclave and were felicitated with a six-monthscholarship from SCC online worth Rs. 11,000 Their

overall rank was 7 out of 28 presenters.

4. Students of 3 year BBA LLB (Hons) BennettUniversity participated in a seminar on Role ofIntellectual Property for Entrepreneurs at the

American Centre, Delhi on 21 August 2019.

5. Third-year BBALLB (Hons) students attended theNani Palkhivala Debate, 2019, held on August 21,2019, at the Indian Society of International Law, NewDelhi, to commemorate the birth centenary of legalluminary Nani Palkhivala. The motion was: “Was thefinal outcome in the privy purses case a constitutionalbetrayal?” Mr. Rishi Raj Bhardwaj, Ph.D Scholaraccompanied the students.

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6. First Year BA LLB ( Hons) students of School of Law,Bennett University were taken on an educationalexcursion for their History course to Qutub Minar on

28 August 2019 in order to encourage them toappreciate and perceive the rich cultural andarchitectural heritage of India. The students wereaccompanied by their History Professor- Dr. SudhaJha Pathak and Ms. Nidhi Chauhan.

7. Students Kunwar Varun Pratap Singh, Riya Soni,Aaryan Sharma and Rajnandini Singh, students ofSchool of Law, BU, participated in Agahi 2019, aparliamentary debate organised at Rajiv Gandhi

National Law University, , Patiala from 4 to 6October 2019. They defeated SCMS, Pune andMNLU, Mumbai in Preliminary Rounds.

8. Students Kunwar Varun Pratap Singh, Riya Soni,Aaryan Sharma and Rajnandini Singh, students ofSchool of Law, BU, participated in Agahi 2019, aparliamentary debate organised at Rajiv GandhiNational Law University, , Patiala from 4th to 6thOctober 2019. They defeated SCMS, Pune andMNLU, Mumbai in Preliminary Rounds.

9. Damini Sharma and Nisarg Trivedi of First yearBALLB ( Hons) Batch B participated in the National

Integration Council on 28 and 29 September 2019 atthe Jaypee Institute of information technology, Noida.Damini Sharma represented as Smriti Irani and NisargTrivedi as Mohan Bhagvat. The council discussed theissue of Sustainable Development with reference tocaste, religion, regionalism and socio-economicconcerns in India. Damini Sharma, also participatedin Abhivyanjana, Hindi Debate Competition atGautam Buddha University on ,“Should SexEducation be taught in Educational Institutions?”

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10. Two teams from 2 year BA.LLB (Hons.) and BBA. LLB(Hons.) participated in the National Mediation

Competition at CNLU, Patna held from 27 to 29 September 2019, organised as a part of their legal aid fest“Vidhikta 2019 ”. The team consisting Mridul Pandey and Manav Shrivastav secured the second position and theother team consisting of Abhay Dev Sharma and Ishaan Chopra secured the third position. Team of Kriti andAnubhav Lamba also participated in the Client Counselling Competition at the LegalAid Fest.

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11. Ten students from first year law program participated in Lex bonanza 2019 (International law fest) in Indore

institute of Law, held from 18 to 20 October 2019. These students participated in many competitions such asdebate, parliamentary debate, paper presentation, Judgement writing, and extempore. The participatns ofparliamentary debate qualified for semi-finals after winning several rounds while Divya Khajanchi reached thefinals as an adjudicator. Riya soni presented her paper on “Tension between Executive and Judiciary” and secured

9 rank out of 46 presented papers. Aaryan Sharma and Rajnandini Singh made the law school proud by winningthe debate competition. Both the winners were awarded by a renowned judge from the Madhya Pradesh HighCourt.

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School of Law Bennett University organised its first ever Mock Parliament. The event was organised by the students

of the school under the guidance of Prof. M.SridharAcharyulu, Dean, SOL.. The objective of the event was to provide

an insight to the Indian legislative making process.The discussion recreated revolved around the abrogation ofArticle

370 of the Indian Constitution. The discussion and debate was moderated by Harshit Jain, Kunwar Varun Pratap

Singh and Shivam Bansal. More than 30 law students participated in the event.

LEGAL PHOTOWALK

MOCK PARLIAMENT 1.0

Photowalk

Media and Outreach Committees in association with the Legal Aid

committee, of school of law, Bennett University had successfully

conducted its first ever legal Photo walk at Changing Chowk on 22

September 2019.In the school of Law, one student in a team of 3 was given

a task to identify the hidden legal issues and problems in the respected area

and the surrounding areas.. They were asked to prepare a report of not

more than 1500 words. The event wasorganized by the members of Media

and Outreach under the guidance of Dr Garima Tiwari and Dr. Chasul

Phogat.The event was joyous and full of learning and further Mr. Subhash

Chandra Agarwal and his wife Madhu Agarwal guided the entire photo

walk. Mr Agarwal is an RTI Activist and also aholder of the Guinness

World Record. He has writtenwritten the most published letters to

newspaper editors.The students got to know the history of the place and

about the scenario of various laws in the Chandni Chauk area. Top three

teams were awarded by the dean SOL, and rest were given certificates of

participation The first position was bagged by the team of Jennifer

Phillip, Prakhar Harit and Rahul Kumar. Second prize was awarded to

Kumar Aditya, Sharadindu Shekhar, Dherya Maheswari and the third

prize was backed by Palak Vakil and Swadheena Joardar. Special

appreciation was also given to Sanjana Sahay, Chinmai Kapri , Sheetal

Sharma,Himanshi Bhatia, Thurpati Swetha and Prateek Raushan.

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1. Anubhav Lamba, second year BALLB (Hons) student is the CampusAmbassador for Desikanoon Web portal.

2. Abhay Dev Sharma, second year student of BALLB (Hons) has been selected as the campus Ambassador forDesikanoon, Lawtopus as well as the Campus Leader for Indian Mediation Week 2019.

3. Pratyus Sarangi, second year BALLB (Hons) student has been selected as the campusAmbassador for Lawctopus.

4. Apoorva Mehta, third year BBALLB (Hons) student has been selected as the Executive Assistant at Legal Desire.Tejaswin Pandit, second year, BBALLB (Hons) student has been selected as the Campus Ambassador forKatcheri.in.

The Indian Penal Code has several provisions that caneffectively deal with the crimes of mob lynching. TheSupreme Court in Tehseen S. Poonawalla v. Union ofIndia AIR SC 5538 (2018) defines mob lynching astargeted violence and commission of offenses affectingthe human body and against a private and publicproperty by mobs under the garb of self-assumed andself-appointed protectors of law. The definition suggeststhat all the offences of such kind are very well definedand punished under the existing IPC. Even the SupremeCourt itself has directed the central government and stategovernments to register F.I.R. under relevant provisionsof IPC, try the matter in fast track courts and punish theaccused with the highest possible punishment under thesame. It further directed to appoint a nodal officer inevery district, take the help of intelligence heads, regularpatrolling in sensitive areas, the promulgation of lawsagainst mob violence and remove offensive materialsfrom social media. The following provisions (notexhaustive) of IPC can punish the accused:

a. Murder under section 302;

b. Voluntary causing hurt or grievous hurt undersections 323 or 325;

c. Deliberate and malicious acts intended to outragereligious feelings of any class by insulting itsreligion or religious beliefs under section 295A;

d. Criminal Conspiracy under section 120B;

e. Member of an unlawful assembly under section 143and 149.

It is noted that these provisions of IPC have punishmentfrom imprisonment for months to even death penalty andany sperate law cannot give a punishment higher than it.The only reason which causes the flourishment of moblynching is a deficiency in the enforcement of law. It hasbeen easily observed in several cases of mob lynchingthat police were negligent in curbing this evil because oftheir religious bias or political motives. The videos ofmob lynching are publicly available and easilyaccessible on the internet and social media platforms,

nevertheless the law enforcement agencies show theirhelplessness in catching the accused and gather evidenceagainst them by quoting “mob does not have a face.”Moreover, when the accused are set free by the courts inthe absence of substantive evidence or on bail, they arewelcomed by political leaders. Therefore, the rootproblem isthe lack of political will, failure of lawenforcement in the prevention of the crime andinvestigation which cannot be overcome by introducinga new law. By passing a separate law, the state is justtrying to avoid the root problem rather than gettingstraight to it.

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar once said that “Bad people makegood laws ineffective while good people makeineffective laws effective.” Hence, there is no need for aseparate law against mob lynching as the existing lawsare competent to curb the menace. The government mustwork on the enforcement of the existing laws as directedby the Supreme Court in Poonawalla case byconsidering all the directions.

-Rahul Kumar, Third Year, BBALLB (Hons)

FACE OF THE SCHOOL OF LAW, BENNETT UNIVERSITY

STUDENT’S CORNERFlourishing Mob Lynching: A Failure of Law Enforcement Agencies

“Law is the mightiest sovereign in a Civil Society” -(Krishnamoorthy v. Sivakumar and others, 3 SCC 467 (2015).)

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I am Aditya Vemulakonda aSecond Year Law Student atBennett University. Unlike most of my peers, I chose todo my first internship in an NGO as a first step towardsworking in a real life scenario. A lot of people scratchtheir heads when it comes to choose their internship fieldwhether to opt for a legal field like working under anAdvocate or to work in a law firm. or to work in an NGO.I preferred an NGO famous for cooking and servingMid-Day Meals to government schools. I opted forAkshaya Patra Foundation for my first internshipexperience and it was worth it. During my internshipperiod, I did not really get to learn anything related to mycourse at the University. But I got to learn somethingdifferent. On my first day at the internship, the momentmy superior gave me a task I realised how important myjob was. My one mistake could cause trouble.. I did notlearn new sections, statutes or read cases but I learntsomething more valuable, i.e. life skills. I experiencedthe gap between the theoretical world and the practicalworld. This internship was a threshold to the adulthood.My work primarily revolved around two things;

Consumption Analysis and reconciliation of Riceissued by government for the Mid-Day MealsScheme.

Food delivery vans route optimization for proposednew kitchen project.

These tasks seem complicated but these are basic taskssuch as Data entry work and Route Optimization. Irecommend my juniors that it does not matter the fieldyou choose to intern in it is the learning outcome onegains at the end that is of utmost importance.Tt was notthe work during my internship that was helpful orenlightening butit is the idea of 'Internship' that needsappreciation. I learnt a lot of different things apart fromhow to calculate the average amount of rice consumedby the children at the schools. I did not focus on themerits of the internship experience but looked at thebroader idea which is to get accustomed to working inthe real-life conditions instead of presenting yourarguments in a moot court competition which is, at theend fictitious in nature. I would like to throw a gleam oflight on few things that I observed in my internship; firstthing was “Organisational Integrity” where the wholeorganisation of Akshaya Patra worked as one. It hadthree departments in the kitchen. Accountingdepartment, Production office and the Kitchen.All theseorgans worked together and coordinated with each otherand were successful in the process of cooking,inspecting, delivering and recording the data. I was justsitting on my chair and observing this everyday for fourweeks. This showed me the importance of organisationalintegrity, how an organisation works as a Human Body,where one department would cease to exist without theother. Another important aspect of interning at an NGOwas that I observed was I got to learn about the numberof underprivileged children in India and how Mid-Day

Meals provide them an incentive to go to attend schooland study. I got to travel to a few schools and see theconditions of these schools which made me realise theimportance of such NGOs in our country.

As far as my internship experience goes, the biggest andthe most important aspect learnt was a sense ofresponsibility which you attain when you are standingon your own feet out there in the real world and workingfor your living. It makes you realise that the day is not farwhen you would start working for your own living andbecome an independent individual. You will leave yourparents' umbrella and open up your own. I must admitthat I learnt a lot during this entire period. of time.

Internship included regular visits to High Court of Delhi,District Court at Tis Hazari, Patiala House and RouseAvenue, besides attending dispute settlement atSamadhan- Delhi High Court Mediation andConciliation Centre, New Delhi. I extended assistance inpreparation of cases involving Matrimonial Disputes;Matrimonial appeals; Matters under the Protection ofWomen from Domestic Violence Act; Hindu Adoptionand Maintenance Act; Eviction Matters under DelhiRent Control Act. I also provided assistance in readingand drafting of settlement agreements at Mediation. Ialso learnt about the procedural aspects in the districtand appellate courts. The internship helped me to learnhow to write efficiently and effectively in a short timeperiod. Internships teach us to listen to what others haveto say; how not be anxious and interrupt constantly. I wasalso able to implement the basics of legal researchlearned during the course, its usefulness, and shortcutsof obtaining information in a relatively short amount oftime. I also learnt more about drafting, research, dealingwith clients and reading with understanding and furtherhow to explain in plain language for the senior.

During the internship period the main nature of workwhich was assigned was reading of case files, researchand drafting. While reading the case file,I was supposedto make brief notes and summary. I would accompanythe supervising advocate in his court appearance andwatch the Advocate argue the matter before the Hon'bleJudges of various Courts and tribunals. It was myprerogative to make sure that the I was in-touch with all

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-Aditya Vemulakonda, BBALLB (Hons) Second Year

Varun Pratap Singh, BALLB (Hons) Second Year

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INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCE IN SALVUSOFFICES UNDER ADVOCATE SHAILESHMADIYAL, SUPREME COURT OFINDIA

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the annexures and material in the case file that shall I becalled upon to help the supervising advocate in any formduring court appearance, henceforth the I should be ableto exercise due diligence while assisting the Advocate inCourt. I was asked to conduct research on variousaspects of law as directed by the supervising advocate,the main objective of all the research conducted by mewas to identify and retrieve information necessary tosupport the advocate in his legal-decision making. I wasalso introduced to a systematic procedure for conductinglegal research on the legal queries assigned to the intern,to look up the archives and herewith reach a conclusionon that particular legal query.

I assisted in drafting of application seeking condonationof delay, application seeking extension of time andvarious other miscellaneous applications, the intern cansuccessfully proclaim that during his tenure as an internhe has successfully drafted a Revision Petition in theNCDRC and an SLP in the Hon'ble SC and a reply to thecontents of a writ petition.

I gained the opportunity to work with an organization –Child Healing Centre that keenly focused on helpingchildren of varying age group who went throughemotional trauma arising from childhood sexual,physical, verbal or mental abuse. The children includedboth boys and girls from diverse cultural, social,economic and religious backgrounds who went tounfortunate and undeserving traumatic incidents wherethey lost their self or self. Staff members at CHC tookthese children under their wing and taught them withlove and undivided attention that life could be lived nomatter how traumatising or dark the park may have been.As part of my internship, I was a volunteer for a 9 daychildren's camp called – Camp Precious. Wherein,

children from several orphanages and homes stayed atthe South Asian Bible College (SABC) dorms withseveral volunteers and learnt how to trust again, how tobecome emotionally stable again and most importantly,felt empowered and validated.

Camp Precious encompassed countless quality activitiesthat were personally designed to touch children's heart,even those who had lost all hope. We witnessed childrenfrom the age group of 13-20 years. We ensured that theywere given attention, love and validation. Prior to thebeginning of the 9 day long camp, all volunteers andnurturers were given a 2 dayrigorous training on how tobecome a 'safe adult'. Post these training workshops, webegan our Camp and we saw that different childrenexpressed what they felt through different activities.Some expressed through games like Pictionary, Physicalgames like throwball, football, etc, while the otherexpressed through quality workshops like 'Identity','Unforgiveness', 'Facing Your Giants', 'Life Book', 'Howto handle you emotions', etc,. We learnt that meresympathy cannot be used as a tool to connect andintervene in their lives. But showing the slightest of theempathy and affinity lead to us understanding theloopholes as to where other child care and emotionaldisaster prevention organizations were failing. These 9days were highly likely the most life changing for me. Icould become a better person, doing the smallest thingsand hoping for the world to change.

It was not an easy task however, seeing that children whogo through immense trauma and heartbreak areextremely sensitive. This made this internship morechallenging and worth succeeding at. After itscompletion, I received two certificates and appreciationfrom the staff members of CHC. This experience wasone that I will truly cherish for what I had gained from itand for my potential and what I could wholeheartedlygive back.

- -Raunak Sood, BBALLB (Hons) Second Year

Priscilla Samuel, BALLB (Hons) Second Year

INTERNSHIP AT CHILD HEALING CENTRE,BANGALORE

Poetry by Parminder, 1 year BALLB (Hons)st Poetry by Meghna Sharma, 1st Year BALLB (Hons)

School of Law, Bennett University started its Ph.D.Programme from this session. Mr. Rishi Raj Bhardwajand Ms. Sumedha Ganjoo and selected as full-timescholars while Mr. Ankit Dhotrekar and Mrs. NirmalaKrishnamoorthy are part time scholars.

1. Mr. Rishi Raj Bhardwaj, Ph.D. Scholar, School ofLaw, Bennett University won the Book ReviewAward on a Science Fiction Novel “2001: A SpaceOddessy” written by Arthur C. Clarke in 1968 at theLibQuest '19 organized during September 23-27,2019 at Bennett University.

2. Ms. Sumedha Ganjoo, Ph.D. Scholar of School ofLaw, Bennett University, presented a paper at theNational Seminar on Cyber Law and Cyber Crimes:Issues and Challenges at University Institute of Legal

Studies, Himachal Pradesh on 28 September 2019.

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PH.D PROGRAMME AT SCHOOL OF LAW,BENNETT UNIVERSITY

FACULTY IN NEWS

FACULTYAS JUDGES

FACULTYPUBLICATIONS

FACULTYPARTICIPATION

1. Mr. Jacob George, Assistant Professor was the judgein the 2nd International Moot Court Competition at

Lovely Professional University, Phagwara on 23August 2019.

2. Ms. Bhumika Nanda, Assistant Professor judged the2nd International Moot Court Competition at Lovely

Professional University, Phagwara on 23 August2019.

3. Mohd Umar, Assistant Professor was an invitedJudge for the 5th SAARC Mooting Competition

hosted by Lloyd Law College, Greater Noida on 19October 2019.

Mr. Jacob George was invited as a judge at the 11thJustice Hidayatullah Memorial National Moot Court

Competition, HNLU Raipur on 20 October 2019.

1. Ms Prachi Tyagi published a paper titled“Competition amendment bill 2012 vis-à-vis anti-competitive agreements” in NSS (Internationalrefereed peer reviewed research journal, ISSN 2320-8767,April-June 2019, volume 2019, pg. no.219.

2. Dr Ashita Allamraju published a paper- MPLADS:To scrap or to Reinvent (along with Dr Palakh Jainand Chavi Asrani. Journal of Governance and PublicPolicy, Vol 9(1), Jan-Jun 2019

3. Mr Praveen Tripathi published a paper along with MsPriya Misra- "The Legal and Policy Questions inForeign Direct Investment: An Assessment usingIndian Case" in Transformative Law and PublicPolicy (Sony Pellissery et al eds., Routledge, 2019)

1. Ms. Prachi Tyagi, Assistant Professor participated

Open house being conducted on campus on 4 and

11 May 2019

2. Mr. Madhav Mallya,Assistant Professor participated

Open house being conducted in Patna on 11 , 18 and

24 May 2019.

3. Dr Sudha Jha Pathak participated in Summer schoolon Greek Language, Culture and civilisation in

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi from 27

May 2019 till 31 May 2019

4. Prof. Vivekanandan, Former Dean of School of Law,Bennett University participated as the reviewcommittee member of the 'Mapping of IPR's and itsmanagement in academic/research institutions:

funded by DST and implemented by ICRISAT on 2May 2019 at Hyderabad.

5. Dr Suvir Kapur, Assistant Professor participated inthe Bennett University Open House held in Lucknowon behalf of School of Law for addressing to the

admission queries of Law students on 8 June 2019.

6. Mr Praveen Tripathi presented and participated in16th Asian Legal Institute Conference, 2019 at

Singapore on 11 June 2019.

7. Dr Garima Tiwari and Mr. Madhav Mallya attendedthe Faculty Development Programme onInternational Law, Tamil Nadu National LawUniversity, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India from

29 June to 3 July 2019.

8. Prof. V.C Vivekanandan was a panelist at India'sAspiration to build World Class Universities: A 2020Reform Agenda -IIHED – Jindal Global University,

Delhi held on 3 July 2019.

9. Prof. V.C Vivekanandan was invited for a lecture toISRO Scientists on Intellectual Property Rights-

ASCI, Hyderabad, 8 July 2019.

10. Prof M Sridhar Acharyulu, Dean, School of Law,Bennett University addressed a conference onRevenue Reforms, spoke on land rights, at BR

Ambedkar Open University on 14 July 2019

11. Prof M Sridhar Acharyulu, Dean, School of Law,addressed Media persons on usage of RTI injournalism at a workshop organized by CHRI, New

Delhi on 27 July 2019.

12. Mr Madhav Mallya, Assistant Professor participated

in the 2 Biannual Conference on the Blue Economyorganised by the South Asian InternationalEconomic Law Network (SAIELN) in Trivandrum

on the 27 and 28 of July 2019. He spoke oninternational investment law and blue economy.

13. Mr Praveen Tripathi, Assistant Professor was invitedfor talk on "Consumerism, Sports and CompetitionLaw" at National Law School of India University, inTwo Day National Seminar on Legal, Ethical andContractual Aspects of Sports during July 27 - 28,2019.

14. Mr Praveen Tripathi, Assistant Professor chairedsession on "Competition Law and Sports" at NationalLaw School of India University, in Two Day NationalSeminar on Legal, Ethical and Contractual Aspectsof Sports on July 27 - 28, 2019.

15. Mr Praveen Tripathi, Assistant Professor gave aPaper Presentation on "Goals of Competition Law:

Leanings in Asia" at 16 Asian Law InstituteConference at Singapore organised by Asian LawInstitute, National University of Singapore duringJuly 11-12, 2019.

16. Prof M Sridhar Acharyulu, Dean, School of Law,Bennett University presented a Paper onConstitutional Federalism and Water Bills at

National Water Conference in New Delhi on 5August 2019.

17. Prof M Sridhar Acharyulu, Dean, School of Law,Bennett University addressed Hyderabad Students

Conference, on Dilution of RTI Act on 10 August2019.

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18. Prof M Sridhar Acharyulu, Dean, School of Law,Bennett University addressed Telangana VikasVedika, and delivered a lecture on Federalism and

Present Challenges, at Hyderabad on 14 August2019.

19. Prof M Sridhar Acharyulu, Dean, School of Law,Bennett University addressed Delhi Telugu Women's

writers' association, at New Delhi on 18 August2019.

20. Dr. Sudha Jha Pathak, Assistant Professor, School ofLaw participated in the Colloquium on Democracyand Satyagraha at the India International Centre,

New Delhi on 6 August 2019.

21. Mr. Arpan Acharya, Assistant Professor was thediscussant in the A Roundtable Consultation onUniversal Social and Economic Rights Organised byCentre for Equity Studies at the Institute of Social

Sciences, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi on 31 August2019.

22. Mohd Umar, Assistant Professor was an invited fordelivering a guest lecture at the Indian Society ofInternational Law, New Delhi on topic “Relevance of

the World Charter for Nature in the 21 Century.”

23. Prof M Sridhar Acharyulu, Dean, School of Law,Bennett University addressed students of SymbiosisInternational University at Hyderabad onConstitutional Morality. And Freedom of Media and

Ethics on 7 September 2019.

24. Prof M Sridhar Acharyulu, Dean, School of Law,Bennett University delivered Lecture onImplementation of Section 4 of RTI Act,

Jansoochana Portal in Rajasthan, Jaipur on 15September 2019.

25. Dr. Suvir Kapur, Assistant Professor presented apaper titled, National Security : Issue of Consensusor Politics? at the 8th International Annual ResearchConference of Symbiosis Law School Pune on Ruleof Law in Context: Indian and Global Perspectives

(SYMROLIC 2019) held on 13 and 14 September2019.

26. Dr Chasul Phogat, Assistant Professor (English)School of Law, Bennett University, attended a one-day workshop on “how to publish your research

impactfully” on 24 September 2019. The speakerwas Ms Sangeeta Menon, Publishing RelationshipManager at Emerald Publishing.

27. Prof M Sridhar Acharyulu, Dean, School of Law,Bennett University delivered Lecture on Power ofQuestioning in Democracy, Praja Kavi KalojiEndowment at Kakatiya University, Warangal.

Telangana on 27 September 2019.

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NEW ADDITION IN THE BU LAW TEAM

Dr. Chasul Phogat,

Assistant Professor (English)

Mr. Arpan Acharya,

Assistant Professor (Law)

Ms.Swarnim Swati

Assistant Professor (Law)

Ms. Mita Kumar,

Assistant Professor (Law)

Mr. Mohammad Umar,

Assistant Professor (Law)

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