Category: Criminal Justice System
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Navigating The New Criminal Laws | Part 2 | Community Service
Guest post by Kritika Malik (Research Head – Chambers of Bharat Chugh) Every saint has a past and every sinner a future Over time,…
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Law in 100 words | Grounds of arrest not informed ? – Well, Arrest Invalid!
Guest post by Kritika Malik (Research Head – Chambers of Bharat Chugh) The Arrest Very quickly, the facts: On the Eve of 3rd October…
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Navigating The New Criminal Laws | Part 1 | Preliminary Enquiry
Amongst other things, BNSS has introduced a crucial amendment regarding preliminary enquiry (herein after referred to as “PE”). Here’s how the newfangled provision reads: …
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15 troubling aspects of the New Criminal Law amendments
Abstracted from a series of tweets by Mr. Chugh, accessible here 1. The new provision on Police Custody is deeply problematic. While it is…
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ADMISSIBILITY OF ILLEGALLY OBTAINED EVIDENCE VIS-A-VIS RIGHT TO PRIVACY UNDER ARTICLE 21 OF THE INDIAN CONSTITUTION (GUEST POST)
This is a guest post by the very bright Mr. Ritwik Sharma, Advocate, Delhi. This is in the light of the recent order by…
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Preventive arrest and security proceedings in CrPC (S.107/151 CrPC) and misuse abuse
Context Abuse of the criminal justice machinery is rampant in India. People are often wrongly implicated in criminal cases and deprived of their personal…
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Right of the Victim to be heard in a Revision petition filed by the Accused
Are we still arguing this? Wasn’t this decided already? Well, the answer is Yes AND No. Taking a step back for a moment and…
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Section 159 CrPC- Rarely used power of Magistrate (Guest Post)
This is a guest post by the very bright Harshit Sharma (https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshit-sharma-hs30/) on a very interesting topic of criminal procedure. Introduction In continuation of…
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Mandatory to supply grounds of arrest (in writing) to an accused in PMLA case
The Supreme Court on 3rd October, 2023 passed a landmark judgment in the case of Pankaj Bansal v. Union of India. The judgment is…
