Category: Criminal Justice System
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Whether an accused can be directed to disclose his phone password by the investigators?
Background I’ve written on this subject earlier (see here) and primarily on the Karnataka High Court ruling (“Virendra Khanna”) on the subject. Ruling in…
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A few thoughts on the New Indian Criminal Laws. (Part 2)
This is Part 2 in a series on the analysis of the new proposed amendments to the criminal laws. You can find the 1st…
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A few thoughts on the New Indian Criminal Laws. (Part 1)
*Caveat : This piece was written on the first draft, that is, before the first draft went to the Select Committee and a new…
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Judicial Magistrate’s Power to take Cognizance of Offence committed beyond his Territorial Limits and in Cases where it acts as a Link Court (Guest Post)
This is a guest post by the very bright young judge Harshit Sharma (https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshit-sharma-hs30/) on a very interesting legal issue. Here’s how it goes Cognizance-…
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A Judgment that I wrote in a case of false implication by the Police
Many of you have reached out to me, over the last few months and years, for copies of judgments and orders that I wrote…
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Ryan School Murder Case: How to assess Bholu’s culpability? (Guest post by Sh.Rajesh Mohan, IPS)
This is a guest post by Sh. Rajesh Mohan, IPS, Haryana Cadre (follow him on twitter here!) On 8th September 2017, a class II…
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PMLA – A (P)oem On the (M)oney (L)aundering (A)ct.
“It’s very genesis is illegal; it can’t be a Money Bill! This vitiates everything; a lacunae that you can’t fill!” This issue – we…
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Law in 100 Words| Part 16 | Quashing of Criminal Proceedings on the basis of Settlement | Guest post by Sholab Arora
The power of a court to compound an offence u/s 320 CrPC is different from the power of the High Court to quash a…
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Law in 100 Words | Part 14 | Calculating 60/90 days period for the purpose of Default/Compulsory Bail (S.167 CrPC)
Let’s take the facts of Ravi Prakash Singh v state of Bihar, (2015) 8 SCC 340 for the purpose of illustrating. Here are the brief facts:…
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A few words on Re-examination of Witnesses | The Art of putting Humpty Dumpty back together again…
The purpose of re-examination is clear from the bare language of Section 138 of the Evidence Act. It reads: 138: Order of Examination – Witnesses…
