Deepak Singh The history of house arrest in India has its root in preventive detention laws. Section 5 of National Security Act, 1980 (also known as “rasuka”) empowers the government to regulate […]
Prevention of Money Laundering Act and the Right against Self-Incrimination
Stuti Rastogi Section 50 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act weighs heavy on the offender and fails to protect the fundamental right against self-incrimination. In this article, the author gives shape […]
Arbitrary Deprivation of Liberty and the Pandemic
Dr. Elina Steinerte Dr. Steinerte examines the backsliding of individual liberty in a flawed Indian criminal justice system, amplified by the COVID – 19 pandemic. She makes a case for reforming the current […]
Cow Laws In 10 States Empower Vigilantes. Karnataka’s Is The Latest
Prannv Dhawan Karnataka’s new cattle slaughter law lets police arrest suspects without a warrant, permits police or ‘competent authorities’, which includes even vets, to seize cattle, premises merely on suspicion and provides […]
Wrongful Prosecutions and Convictions
Prof. Kent Roach One of my current research interests is the comparative study of wrongful convictions. Almost two decades ago, when I first taught in Singapore, my students assured me that there […]
The Love-Jihad Ordinance: A Constitutional Review
Saksham Chaturvedi This piece analyses the provisions of the recently promulgated ordinance on conversions for inter-faith marriages against the Fundamental Rights guaranteed by the Constitution, to demonstrate how the criminalization of religious […]
Love Jihad Ordinance: India’s War on Drugs Moment?
Binit Agrawal and Mansi Gupta Criminal justice systems (CJS) across the world often come under the influence of socio-political movements. If not restricted in due time, such influence leads to the CJS […]
The Supreme Court’s Bail Policy in the Pandemic: The case for the Women Prisoners
Anoushka Chauhan Making the case for interim release of women prisoners during de-congestation of prison on account of Covid. Introduction As Coronavirus spreads across the country, prisons and jails of India […]
Criminalizing Blasphemy and the Threat to Free Speech – The Indian Perspective
Anshul Butani Recent Controversies on Blasphemy law across the globe, necessitate revisiting the Indian Position on this point The recent political division over a French teenager’s tirade on Islam, and the controversy over the extrajudicial […]
Lead Investigative Agency for Economic Offences: Time for Reform
Aditya Saraswat The establishment of a lead investigative agency, which will involve other bodies on a need basis, will put an end to the overlapping functions of multiple investigative agencies. Introduction The […]