Section 67 of the NDPS Act says that any officer empowered under the Act can call any person or record the person’s statement and that shall be admissible as evidence in the court.... Read more »

The term “investigation” means collection of evidence, Fair investigation is admittedly a human right ,which has been declared at several occasions by the Hon’ble supreme court that it falls within the ambit... Read more »

In a well-worded, well-analysed, well-reasoned and well articulated judgment titled Jasbir Singh @ Jasvir Singh v. State of Punjab [Crl. Misc. No. M-19376 of 2020] delivered just recently on October 30, 2020,... Read more »

There is very thin line between freedom of speech and law of sedition, as has been the case with the term disaffection and disillusionment. Power of criticising is a democratic right but... Read more »

The right to life and personal liberty enshrined in Article 21 is the sanctum sanctorum of the Indian Constitution. Law makers have given the highest priority to the personal liberty and deprivation of the... Read more »

The Common Cause report on ‘Status of Policing in India, 2019’ reveals some shocking numbers. The report shows that police in India work at 77% of their sanctioned strength which is 3/4th... Read more »

FGM has always been a grave issue and will remain to be one until major steps are taken to cull it. This is not widely recognised as of yet but it will... Read more »

While drafting the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), 1973, the Authors had kept three considerations in mind, which were, an accused person should get a fair trial in accordance with the accepted principles... Read more »

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” — Buckminster Fuller  Our rape laws have undergone several changes... Read more »