Criminal Law

Fair investigation: The backbone of criminal justice system

The term “investigation” means collection of evidence, Fair investigation is admittedly a human right ,which has been declared at several…

4 years ago

State needs to be more tolerant while invoking laws pertaining to sedition & religious disaffection: Punjab and Haryana High Court

In a well-worded, well-analysed, well-reasoned and well articulated judgment titled Jasbir Singh @ Jasvir Singh v. State of Punjab [Crl.…

4 years ago

Law of sedition: All dissents are not disaffection, all disaffections are not always dissents

There is very thin line between freedom of speech and law of sedition, as has been the case with the…

4 years ago

Liberalising the regime of Default Bail under 167(2) CrPC

The right to life and personal liberty enshrined in Article 21 is the sanctum sanctorum of the Indian Constitution. Law…

4 years ago

The status quo of criminal investigation in India: A cause for worry?

The Common Cause report on ‘Status of Policing in India, 2019’ reveals some shocking numbers. The report shows that police…

4 years ago

The cruel cut: Female genital mutilation

FGM has always been a grave issue and will remain to be one until major steps are taken to cull…

4 years ago

SPIRIT OF SECTION 156 (3) CRPC, 1973: SC’S INTERPRETATION

While drafting the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), 1973, the Authors had kept three considerations in mind, which were, an accused…

4 years ago

INDIA’S RAPE LAWS AND WHY THEY ARE OBSOLETE

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing…

4 years ago

The case of SC gag order against Sudarshan News

One of the arguments advanced by the intervenors is that ‘hate speech’ is punishable under Sections 153A and 153B of…

4 years ago

State police versus CBI: A long time dissidence

State Police and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) both distinctive entities that were regulated through the Police Act, 1861, and…

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