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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.
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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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On 27 July 2022, the three-judge bench headed by J. Khanwilkar upheld the constitutional validity of various provisions of the Prevention of
2022 was an important year in the death penalty for India. As per Project 39A's Death Penalty in India: Annual Statistics Report
The POCSO Act presumes an accused's guilt through its reverse onus clauses. The basis for such clauses must be examined against a
The Supreme Court has done well to acknowledge that capital punishment needs closer scrutiny and referring the matter to a five-judge bench.