The recent dismissal of the challenges to the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 has given grounds for much
Discussion organised on World Day Against the Death Penalty focused on the effectiveness of the death penalty as a response to sexual
Are provisions of the PMLA violative of Article 20(3) of the Constitution? Aditya Mehta talks to Aabad Ponda, Senior Advocate, who argued
On September 19th, 2022, a 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court referred certain issues of death penalty sentencing to a larger constitutional
By stating that sex workers’ right to dignity is protected under Article 21 irrespective of their occupation, the Court has made the
Apart from the specific concerns the Supreme Court's recent judgment on the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 raises, there are broader
One of the issues raised before the Court by the Petitioners was that the officers of the Enforcement Directorate [“ED”] were “police
The right to presumed innocence has not been given the status of a fundamental right in the Indian legal system. Yet, its
In the last ten years, the ED has recorded almost 5500 cases under the Act and more than Rs. 1,00,000 crores worth
The SC does not allow standalone mental facts to trigger the exception under Section 27, but does not clearly explain why. This