Set in place by a 42-year-old Supreme Court judgement, Indian law requires judges to consider a convict’s life story and the probability
On September 19th, 2022, a 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court referred certain issues of death penalty sentencing to a larger constitutional
The Supreme Court in a recent order referred issues relating to capital sentencing in India to a Constitution bench. Unlike the dominant
The imagination of legal representation in capital cases is limited to lawyers. Mitigation, however, needs to be conducted by individuals trained in
The Supreme Court has done well to acknowledge that capital punishment needs closer scrutiny and referring the matter to a five-judge bench.
The SC does not allow standalone mental facts to trigger the exception under Section 27, but does not clearly explain why. This
The right to presumed innocence has not been given the status of a fundamental right in the Indian legal system. Yet, its
One of the issues raised before the Court by the Petitioners was that the officers of the Enforcement Directorate [“ED”] were “police
By stating that sex workers’ right to dignity is protected under Article 21 irrespective of their occupation, the Court has made the
In upholding the validity of India’s money laundering law, the Supreme Court on 27 July 2022, created a new normal in the