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Thousands of lawyers in the Indian capital city of Delhi protested against provisions of three new criminallaws on Monday. The lawyers said the new criminallaws are draconian and in opposition to litigants’ interests.
Amnesty International released a report Thursday alleging the targeted use of Pegasus spyware against prominent Indian journalists, rekindling apprehensions about government surveillance and press freedom in the country, following the 2021 Pegasus project disclosures that sent shockwaves through India.
The Supreme Court of India overturned the conviction of a woman sentenced to life imprisonment for the alleged murder of her new born child Thursday, holding that a woman could not be compelled to reveal matters relating to her private reproductive choices.
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India’s president assented Monday to three new post-colonial criminallaw reform bills, paving the way for their enactment. Similarly, the BNSS will take the place of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1973 , which was predominantly rooted in colonial-era laws.
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We all know that key Bills like the criminallaw amendments, which unleash draconian powers and impede citizen’s rights, are listed.” Wednesday, the Los Sabha passed some of these criminal reform laws. After losing more than 90 members to suspensions, the Opposition INDIA bloc now only has 43 active members.
India Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah presented three landmark bills in India’s Parliament on Friday. The three bills would significantly shift Indian criminallaw away from British colonial-era laws. Under the new law, it would carry a potential ten-year imprisonment term.
The Vidhi Centre aimed to ascertain the extent to which Indian criminallaw provisions were effective in checking public behaviour in accordance with COVID-19 restricting measures in Delhi. The post India issued over 23,000 first information reports for COVID-19 violations: thinktank report appeared first on JURIST - News.
Being a Student of Law, I find it socially imperative to question in Court of Law, the constitutional veracity of an enactment that impinges upon the fabric of social justice & individual independence. The bench of Chief Justice Mohammad Rafiq and Judge Vijay Kumar Shukla has given the state government eight weeks to file a reply.
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The sheer origin of Jurisdiction can be claimed to draw its essence from Public International Law, Constitutional law, the conflict of laws and the powers stipulated in the legislative and executive branches of the government to allocate resources in order to adequately serve the needs of the society.
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Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access to Legal Education (IDIA) is a non- profit organization working in India which aims to empower underprivileged children by providing them with equal access to quality legal education. She is also a tutor for law entrance exams at Jays Academy, Trivandrum. Account Holder: Aashna D.
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AN ELABORATION ON ‘EX POST FACTO’ LAW: ARTICLE 20(1) OF THE INDIAN CONSTITUTION. It would be imperative to take into consideration the first clause of the mentioned provision, which bars the retrospective applicability of criminallaws, in circumstances where a new offence has been committed.
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The court found that such comments “infringed on the reputation and honor of heroes and martyrs,” making Ziming guilty of “slandering heroes and martyrs” under China’s new criminallaw provision that bans such behavior.
It will be presented in two parts, the Maharashtra Shakti CriminalLaw Act, 2020 and the Special Court and Machinery for Implementation of Maharashtra Shakti CriminalLaw, 2020. The post Proposed India state bill would punish rape with death penalty appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.
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Amnesty International on Tuesday condemned the recently passed the Indian state of West Bengal’s Aprajita Woman and Child (West Bengal CriminalLaws Amendment) Bill, 2024 , which introduces the death penalty for rape cases that result in the victim’s death or leave them in a vegetative state.
However, after the industrial revolution [and the rise of] the English working classes, there just weren’t enough police to keep whacking people over the head with the criminallaw. Today, one out of every three adults in this country has a criminal or arrest history of some kind.
10] The death of a doctor, during this pandemic, is no less than a soldier being martyred on a battlefield and for their supreme sacrifice, India shall always remain indebted to them. [1] 2] Criminal Appeal Nos. 3] Criminal Appeal No. 4] Criminal Appeal Nos. 1] J Mc Nair, J in Bolam vs. Friern Hospital 1957 1 WLR 582. [2]
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Indian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting India. This dispatch is from Samar Veer, a third-year law student at National Law University, Delhi. As of now, the Bills have been sent to a Parliamentary Standing Committee for review.
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