Published on 29th July 2025 Authored By: Nyasha Kaushik SKJ Law College, Muzaffarpur, Bihar Introduction The Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023, marks a pivotal reform in India’s criminal justice landscape. It replaces the Indian Penal Code (IPC) of 1860, a colonial legacy that governed criminal law for over 160 years. The BNS aims to bring […]
Published on 19th July 2025 Authored By: Jyoti Gupta Manav Rachna University Introduction The concepts of Culpable Homicide and Murder, are such concepts which may sound confusing to a lay man, because it carries a lot of concepts and the differences between them are quite hard to understand or recognise. This case, is mainly based
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Published on 23rd June 2025 Authored By: Soumali Chatterjee Calcutta University Abstract Every woman has a dream to spend their married life happily. But many times it has been seen that women are abused by their in-laws’ family members just because of the problem of Dowry. Every woman deserves to be in a dignified status
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Published on 23rd June 2025 Authored By: Anura Lepcha University of Engineering and Management, Kolkata Introduction Bail is a cornerstone of criminal jurisprudence, deeply rooted in the presumption of innocence and the fundamental right to personal liberty. In a country like India, where jails are overcrowded and undertrial prisoners constitute a significant proportion of the
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Published on 04th June 2025 Authored By: Devesh Mandhata Indian Institute of Management Rohtak [IIM-R] Abstract Can a system designed for procedural efficiency truly deliver substantive justice? Plea bargaining, introduced in India through the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2005, was heralded as a pragmatic response to chronic trial delays and an overburdened judiciary. Yet, its
