Assessing the Quality of Legal Aid: Need for A Uniform Legal Framework

-By Harsh Panwar Introduction Access to legal aid is considered a pertinent issue by the stakeholders in the criminal justice system. However, much of the conversation on legal aid mechanisms have only been centred around access to legal aid to an accused. At the same time, there exists hardly any conversation around guaranteeing the ‘effectiveness’ …

Exploring Holocaust Survivors’ Post Liberation Delinquency: An Analysis Through an Unexplored Theory of Neutralization of Crime

-By Sanjeet Aggarwal The Nazi extermination camps of Central Europe, which used to murder over 2.7 million people during the Holocaust, were among the most brutal and barbarous manifestations of human malice and cruelty that anybody could persist through. On detainment by the SS(Schutzstaffel), the prisoners taken in by the Nazi's went through a literal …

Virendra Khanna v State of Karnataka –Passwords and the Dilution of the Right Against Self-Incrimination

-By Kashish Khandelwal In Riley v California, while holding that an accused cannot be forced by the police to reveal their password, the US Supreme Court observed that owing to the rapid development of technology, the majority of the people “typically carry a cache of sensitive personal information” in their pockets. However, this has also …

Crackdown on Dissent : A Call for Reform and Action

- By Shraddha and Yana Gupta (This article is the second part of a two-part series) Introduction India is a democratic nation and recognition of dissent remains a sine qua non of a true and a living democracy. However, grave misreading of law coupled with dubious intents on the part of the Indian government has …

Weaponizing the Law to Stifle Dissent

-By Shraddha and Yana Gupta (This article is the first part of a two-part series) Introduction In theory India remains a democratic country where its citizen have a constitutional right to speech and expression, but the authors of this article contend that our practice does not match to the high standards set by the democratic …

Anticipatory Bail in Offences under CGST Act: A Developing Jurisprudence

-By Nitesh Mishra The Central Goods and Services Act, 2017 (“the Act” or “CGST Act”) ushered in a novel tax regime in India. Section 132 of the Act has prescribed certain offences which attract punishment in accordance with the provisions of the Act. Owing to the recent enactment of the Act, there does not exist …