Media, Court, and Politics of Remembering: the Ahmedabad Blasts Case
In this article, I do not attempt to critique the legal reasoning behind the verdict. Instead, I try to understand what the ruling did after its pronouncement, ... Read more.
Of Encounters and Instant Justice: The Case of a Failed Criminal Justice System in Uttar Pradesh
India has had a long history of encounters as a tool for crime control. In Mumbai, for instance, the infamous ‘encounter squad’ was used to tackle violent o... Read more.
Women’s Liberation and the Carceral Project
Hrishika Jain and Prof. Aya Gruber discuss the carceral form of feminism's engagement with sexual violence, its implications for victims and feminism's own tran... Read more.
Affective Experience of Incarceration
The law and the criminal justice system, we are told, is logical and dispassionate. There is no space in it for the emotions and vulnerabilities of its stakehol... Read more.
Constitutional validity of the PMLA
On 27 July 2022, the three-judge bench headed by J. Khanwilkar upheld the constitutional validity of various provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Ac... Read more.
PMLA Judgment: What’s at Stake?
In the last ten years, the ED has recorded almost 5500 cases under the Act and more than Rs. 1,00,000 crores worth of property has been attached. On the other h... Read more.
Russia’s Aggression Against Ukraine: Explaining the Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court
On 24 February 2022, even as the UN Security Council held emergency meetings to try and resolve ongoing tensions between Russia and Ukraine, Russia launched a m... Read more.
Money Laundering: Exceptional Procedure for an Unexceptional Offence
This justification when viewed with reference to the definition of money laundering and wide list of predicate offences in the Act is lacking. Money laundering ... Read more.
Predictive Policing: Discrimination, Due Process and Democratic Accountability
Over the past few years, police forces across States in India have started employing artificial intelligence technology. These ‘predictive policing’ softwar... Read more.
Judgment Summary [Challenge to the Prevention of Money Laundering Act]
On 27 July 2022, the Supreme Court of India in Vijay Madanal Choudhary v Union of India, upheld the validity of various provisions of the Prevention of Money La... Read more.