The Punjab government is attempting to bring in a legislation providing for stricter punishment against crimes of sacrilege, ...

The Nulane decision provides a salutary reminder that the allocation of judges to such cases is a highly consequential ...

Some critics of the Trump Administration’s enforcement of federal immigration law, including members of the public, the media, and Congress, have made misleading claims about the due process rights ...

The Law and Justice Division has prepared an initial draft titled 'Code of Criminal Procedure (Second Amendment) Ordinance, 2025' to update the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898. The initial draft has ...

The inquiry against Justice Yashwant Varma has not merely invited public scrutiny, it has forced open foundational questions about the architecture of our Const ...

15 laws and one ordinance recently passed by the 15th National Assembly (NA) and its Standing Committee came into effect on ...

The new criminal laws, Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, came into effect exactly a year ago, on July 1, 2024. As we mark their ...

Terming the framing and implementation of the three new criminal laws as the biggest reform in Independent India, Union Home ...

In a move aimed at protecting innocent citizens from what has become widely known as the “arrest and case trade”, the interim ...

To prevent harassment in false and fabricated cases, the government has amended Section 173A of the Code of Criminal Procedure, allowing magistrates to discharge accused persons if preliminary ...

In April 2025, Guyana’s Parliament passed the Criminal Procedure (Paper Committals) Act 2024 (Commencement) Order 2025. This order activated the Criminal Procedure (Paper Committals) Act 2024 (the ...

4. Since the Revision Applications were disposed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge on the question of jurisdiction only and he has not considered the merits of the matter, it will not be fair ...