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Criminal Law

  • A decade under Modi: Legal reforms partly done, judicial independence comes under cloud

    A decade under Modi: Legal reforms partly done, judicial independence comes under cloud

    Vineet Bhalla
    · Apr 04, 2024 · 09:00 am
  • How Modi government’s new criminal laws drastically increase police powers

    How Modi government’s new criminal laws drastically increase police powers

    Vineet Bhalla
    · Jan 07, 2024 · 06:30 am
  • Criminal law bills designed to provide justice rather than punishment, says Amit Shah

    Criminal law bills designed to provide justice rather than punishment, says Amit Shah

    Scroll Staff
    · Sep 25, 2023 · 01:42 pm
  • Are the new criminal law bills really anti-colonial? Here’s why experts say no

    Are the new criminal law bills really anti-colonial? Here’s why experts say no

    Vineet Bhalla
    · Aug 24, 2023 · 06:30 am
  • ‘Law shouldn’t become tool for selective harassment’: SC on bail to Arnab Goswami in Anvay Naik case

    ‘Law shouldn’t become tool for selective harassment’: SC on bail to Arnab Goswami in Anvay Naik case

    Scroll Staff
    · Nov 27, 2020 · 01:41 pm
  • Why Sudan is unlikely to hand over former president al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court

    Why Sudan is unlikely to hand over former president al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court

    Yousif Mansour Ahmed Abdalla AlZarouni, The Conversation
    · May 31, 2019 · 11:30 pm