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When Criminal Law Becomes a Weapon: Justice Bhatia’s Reminder on Power, Process and Fairness

In an age where criminal law is increasingly deployed as an instrument of pressure rather than a pursuit of truth, judicial interventions that return us to first principles assume...

Handling of electronic evidence by agencies a perversion of criminal justice: CCG

A group of 92 former civil servants, organised together as the Constitutional Conduct Group (CCG) has called for the urgent need for legislative safeguards to ensure that search and seizure operations by the police follow due process and transparency

CCTV cameras in Police stations: SC discontent with Centre, States and UTs

The court noted that the States failed to follow its order in “letter and spirit” ,and refused to entertain the Union’s excuses

Farmer Navreet Singh’s death: Delhi HC directs UP Police to submit post mortem video  

The petitioner and Delhi’s counsel argued that UP police had been non-cooperative and did not hand over important medical reports

K’taka HC asks registry to appoint Judge for handling 56 pending UAPA cases

It was brought to the court’s notice that 2 out of 4 special courts for UAPA have vacant judicial officer positions, while pendency is an issue

Labour activist Shiv Kumar granted bail by Haryana court

He was arrested on January 16 in connection with three FIRs related to extortion, theft and attempt to murder

CJI’s remark smacks of patriarchy, gender insensitivity: Justice Deepak Gupta

The CJI had during the hearing of a rape case, asked the perpetrator if he would marry the survivor

New FT members to work exclusively on NRC exclusion cases in Assam?

Policy decision taken by government in light of upcoming FT cases of NRC-excluded people

SC directs 2,674 prisoners out on Covid bail to surrender by March 15

The interim bail and parole of prisoners and undertrials has been extended from time to time since March last year due to rising infection

Karnataka HC pulls up Centre for false affidavit on flouting Covid-19 norms

The court held that the affidavit was false, as BJP claimed that there was no public rally during the pandemic

Nodeep Kaur case: NHRC seeks report from Haryana Police over alleged custodial torture

A complaint has also been filed before NHRC over labour rights activist Shiv Kumar’s release, who has been allegedly tortured in custody

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