Legal anthropologists Shrimoyee Ghosh and Haley Duschinski argue that Kashmir’s “permanent emergency” is sustained through a system of “indefinite incarceration” materialised through
Six years after being on death row a POCSO Special Court re-sentenced the accused to death in August 2022 in Anokhilal v.
A lack of clarity and unguided judicial discretion have led to the current pattern of sentencing failures in death penalty cases in
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
The judgement in Vijay Madanlal Choudhary v. Union of India has created a situation where the State can arrest anyone without telling
On 27 July 2022, the Supreme Court of India in Vijay Madanal Choudhary v Union of India, upheld the validity of various
This justification when viewed with reference to the definition of money laundering and wide list of predicate offences in the Act is
On March 28, 2022, the Lok Sabha voted for introducing the Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022 (‘the Bill’). The Bill seeks to