Category: crpc
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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 liberty. India – in fact – bears the dubious distinction of being a country with one of the highest number of pending criminal cases (relative to civil cases), where more than…
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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 frankly speaking – apart from this specific problem, we have indeed come a long way; from the days when a Victim was relegated to being a mere footnote in a criminal…