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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By stating that sex workers’ right to dignity is protected under Article 21 irrespective of their occupation, the Court has made the
Six years after being on death row a POCSO Special Court re-sentenced the accused to death in August 2022 in Anokhilal v.
On September 19th, 2022, a 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court referred certain issues of death penalty sentencing to a larger constitutional
The right to free legal aid is an essential ingredient of reasonable, fair and just procedure for a person accused of any
A lack of clarity and unguided judicial discretion have led to the current pattern of sentencing failures in death penalty cases in
When judges award the death penalty, how relevant is it for them to know about an accused person’s life, their social milieu,
Forty-two years after Bachan Singh v. State of Punjab, on 19 September 2022, the three-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India
On September 19th, 2022, a 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court referred certain issues of death penalty sentencing to a larger constitutional