This article examines the Dharmalingam case along with the issue of prosecutorial discretion that lies at the heart of a wider critique
This article seeks to provide a summary of the Supreme Court’s recent judgement dated 24.03.2023 in Arup Bhuyan v State of Assam
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The POCSO Act presumes an accused's guilt through its reverse onus clauses. The basis for such clauses must be examined against a
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Legal anthropologists Shrimoyee Ghosh and Haley Duschinski argue that Kashmir’s “permanent emergency” is sustained through a system of “indefinite incarceration” materialised through
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Six years after being on death row a POCSO Special Court re-sentenced the accused to death in August 2022 in Anokhilal v.