Criminal Justice System (Criminal Justice)

Criminal Justice System (Criminal Justice)

Understanding contemporary sexual assault in India from the lens of the caste system
Two Years After Northeast Delhi Riots, Victims Still Await Justice
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SC disturbed over HC's inordinate delay in hearing convict's appeal, despite serving imprisonment for more than 18 years
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New database quantifies the abuse of sedition law in India between 2010 and 2021
Why is the higher judiciary clogged with bail matters?
One year later: misuse of “love jihad” – 14 family members and peers arrested along with the accused secure bail
Public Safety Act: with continuing arbitrary detentions, dissent has no place in Naya Kashmir
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Dharma Sansad case: Haridwar courts reject bail pleas of hate-speech accused Narsinghanand, Tyagi
Relief to hoax caller jailed for sedition underscores need for fixing accountability
One year later: Married in a temple, wedded for over eight years, and a sudden FIR: How a Kanpur man was falsely booked under UP law against "love jihad"
Sexual assault victims need protection from further harassment, ridicule during probe of case: Kerala HC
Authority duty-bound to expeditiously consider representation against detention order: SC
Guj HC issues notices to state govt, police over plea alleging fake encounter of father-son duo
Prison Statistics India 2020: 76 per cent of prisoners are undertrials; the number of Muslims, Sikhs, SCs, and STs among them disproportionate to their population
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One year later: ruined aspirations, inordinate delays mark the yet-to-begin trial for the first accused arrested under UP’s ‘love jihad’ law
Brutality in police stations will stop only if there are functional CCTV cameras: Kerala HC
Is the controversy over NDPS (Amendment) Act, 2021 a storm in a teacup?
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Court cannot direct DNA testing of rape survivor's child for determining paternity, says Allahabad HC
Calcutta HC orders payment of Rs. 5 lakh compensation to Nepali man jailed for 41 years without trial
To prove conspiracy, confessional statements of the co-accused alone are not sufficient, says SC
No leniency should be shown to an accused who is found to be guilty for offence under the NDPS Act: Supreme Court
Despite denial by NIA Court, why Anand Teltumbde has a right to temporary bail
Delhi HC grants bail in POCSO case saying accused ‘happily cohabiting’ with the alleged victim
HC acquits man awarded death penalty in gang-rape, murder case
Need for reform to avoid wrongful prosecution
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