Tag: CrPC
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Call for Submissions: Working Document on Penal Laws’ Reform in India
‘The government has initiated the process of consultations with stakeholders for amending Indian Penal Code (IPC), Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) and the Indian Evidence Act, MoS (Home) Ajay Kumar Mishra today informed the RS.’ Link This is a call for submissions for recommendations you would like to make to the government panel working on…
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Sheena Bora Murder Case: The elite society murder mystery
By Shrutika Garg, Jamnalal Bajaj School of Legal Studies, Banasthali Vidyapith. Also known as the mother of all murder mysteries, the infamous Sheena Bora murder case came in the media’s glare and has eventually become one of the most mysterious cases in Indian history. Sheena’s alleged mother Indrani Mukherji, an Indian HR consultant and media executive, her…
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Would India be justified in doing away with the Death Penalty?-Decoding the 262nd Law Commission Report
By Vershika Sharma, National Law University, Jodhpur. India is one of the 59 countries in the world that still retain death penalty even after the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 62/149 on 18-12-2007. 262nd Law Commission Report is the outcome of references made by the Supreme Court in death penalty matters to discuss and re-examine its…
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Free Treatment of Acid Attack Victims: The SC Verdict
By Suhasini Srinivasan, Army Institute of Law, Mohali. The Supreme Court on 10th April, 2015 asked all private hospitals throughout the country to provide free treatment, including medicines and corrective surgeries, to all acid attack victims and that private hospitals could neither “turn away” victims of acid attack nor wash their hands off after providing first aid.…
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Preventing Terror by Creating Terror
By Shreyan Acharya, Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies. India is known to be the largest democracy in the world. It has strongly cherished the principles of secularism in which various religions have been guaranteed their freedom. Today, there is rampant sectarian violence throughout the globe. India has been recently applauded by David Heyman for being able…