MY TWO CENTS
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The Reading Society.
There’s nothing that brings greater pleasure than reading. But over the last few years, my outlook to reading has changed. I don’t read to impress and charm anymore. I don’t read to be an activist. I’ve read, not to change the world, or illuminate it, but to look for traces of light within me. I’ve…
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The Reading Society.
There’s nothing that brings greater pleasure than reading. But over the last few years, my outlook to reading has changed. I don’t read to impress and charm anymore. I don’t read to be an activist. I’ve read, not to change the world, or illuminate it, but to look for traces of light within me. I’ve…
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A few lines on The Maniac by Benjamin Labatut (Review)
A few words on The Maniac by Benjamin Labatut. Every line, and I mean it, every line is a masterpiece. Even when the author picks apart something evil and dangerous, and looks where one shouldn’t (or rather not), it does so with extraordinary beauty and poeticism. It also shines a light on humanity or, rather,…
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A few good things about the New Criminal Law Reforms…
Abstracted from a series of tweets by Mr.Chugh accessible here *A more detailed piece would follow.
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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 clear that Police Custody (now) need not be confined to the first 15 days, but what’s unclear is the question as to whether Police Custody can be longer than 15 days…
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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 the Hon’ble High Court of Chhattisgarh in Aasha Lata Soni v. Durgesh Soni (CRMP No. 2112 of 2022) whereby the Hon’ble Court overturned an application under S. 311 of the CrPC allowed 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 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…
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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 my habit of writing I am once again back with an interesting topic. As it is known to the most of people that CrPC (Code of Criminal Procedure) gives Magistrate wide…
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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 on Section 19 of the PMLA which reads as follows: “19. Power to arrest.—(1) If the Director, Deputy Director, Assistant Director or any other officer authorised in this behalf by the…
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Deferment of cross examination of prosecution witnesses (Defence Counsel diaries)
Weaponisation of the Criminal Justice System and Perjury is rampant in India. False criminal cases are routinely filed to settle scores. In these cases, witnesses, who are often related to each other (and depose on the same set of facts), often depose falsely and parrot the same narrative/story and try to create a pretence of…
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