Death Penalty: How To Ensure Fair Sentencing
The imagination of legal representation in capital cases is limited to lawyers. Mitigation, however, needs to be conducted by individuals trained in social work... Read more.
Deciding The Rarest Of The Rare
The Supreme Court has done well to acknowledge that capital punishment needs closer scrutiny and referring the matter to a five-judge bench. The problem that th... Read more.
Access to Safe Abortions in India: A Fraught Reality
In light of the Supreme Court quashing the Delhi High Court judgement disallowing the termination of pregnancy after 24 weeks; Anupriya Dhonchak speaks to Dr. A... Read more.
Reforming Death Penalty Sentencing: Constitution Bench Reference
Forty-two years after Bachan Singh v. State of Punjab, on 19 September 2022, the three-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India referred a matter dealing with ... Read more.
The Supreme Court’s PMLA Judgment: The Paths Not Taken
What went wrong in the Supreme Court’s recent decision concerning the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002? Was it a faulty interpretation of the provisio... Read more.
The New Jim Crow
Project 39A recommends Ava DuVernay’s documentary titled, ‘13th’ and Michelle Alexander’s book titled, ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Ag... Read more.
Supreme Court’s PMLA Judgment: Insights for Defence Lawyers
The recent dismissal of the challenges to the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 has given grounds for much criticism. Irrespective of t... Read more.
Sexual Violence and the Death Penalty: A Discussion Focused on Needs of Survivors
Discussion organised on World Day Against the Death Penalty focused on the effectiveness of the death penalty as a response to sexual violence while locating it... Read more.
The Supreme Court’s PMLA judgment: Undermining the right against self-incrimination?
Are provisions of the PMLA violative of Article 20(3) of the Constitution? Aditya Mehta talks to Aabad Ponda, Senior Advocate, who argued before the Supreme Cou... Read more.
The Confusions Around Same Day Sentencing Law In Death Penalty Cases
On September 19th, 2022, a 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court referred certain issues of death penalty sentencing to a larger constitutional bench. One of these... Read more.