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Victims and Bail — The Judgment in Jagjeet Singh v. Ashish Mishra? – The Criminal Law Blog

By Abhinav Sekhri In a much-publicised judgment, the Supreme Court set aside the order granting bail to the main accused in the Lakhimpur Kheri incident...

Of Strict Liability and The Indian Judiciary’s Take – The Criminal Law Blog

By: Kajal Jamdare Introduction The recent flux of headlines about celebrities and star kids being found in possession of drugs prohibited by law has brought...

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 Addressing Financial Non-Regulation within Social Media Platforms – The Criminal Law Blog

-Tanya Sara George Introduction As per a 2024 FATF report, most domestic money laundering operations are conducted through open sources and social media networks. Initially...

8 years since “Arnesh Kumar Guidelines” what has changed ? – The Criminal Law Blog

– Prakhar Bajpai Arnesh Kumar serves to be the landmark judgement in the judicial history of India. The Supreme Court in this judgment...

A Critique of the Kenyan Court of Appeal’s CDF Decision – Constitutional Law and Philosophy

For the last decade, the Kenyan courts have been grappling with the constitutionality of “constituency development funds” : that is, funds earmarked from...

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Rethinking our Perspectives to Criminal Obscenity- From Moralism to Harm Principle – The Criminal Law Blog

By Vidhi Srivastava Introduction Legal Moralism is a criminalisation theory that advocates employing criminal law to penalise immorality per se and ‘wrong’ conducts, irrespective of...

Conceptual Confusions in the Jane Kaushik Case [Guest Post] – Constitutional Law and Philosophy

Jane Kaushik v. Union of India was a landmark judgement in which a transgender woman teacher had sought compensation from two private schools...

Rethinking Natural Justice in the In-House Inquiry Against Justice Yashwant Varma [Guest Post] – Constitutional Law and Philosophy

On 18 April, Justice Yashwant Varma tendered his resignation while impeachment proceedings against him were underway in Parliament. His resignation letter raises serious...

Case Comment: Pyarali K. Tejani v. Mahadeo Ramchandra Dange

Pyarali K. Tejani v. Mahadeo Ramchandra Dange: Food Adulteration, Strict Liability & Public Health Protection Author : Divyanshu Puri, 4th Year of 5 Year...

Of Old Wine in New Bottles – The Judgement in Vijay Madanlal Choudhary (Part One) – The Criminal Law Blog

~By Abhinav Sekhri After marathon hearings, the Supreme Court finally pronounced its judgment on 27.07.2022 in a batch of over 200 petitions where the...

Returning to Barendra Kumar Ghosh – Part 2 – The Criminal Law Blog

By Niharika Mukherjee Assessment of Common Intention under Section 34 In its previous part, this article traced the development of the law, following the...

Time for a Seven-Judge Bench Reference to resolve the FIR conundrum? – The Criminal Law Blog

~By Abhinav Sekhri On 12.08.2022, the Supreme Court in XYZ v. State of Madhya Pradesh & Ors.  set aside an order of the Madhya Pradesh High Court, and directed...

Indiscretion in Providing Discretion to the Election Commission [Guest Post] – Constitutional Law and Philosophy

The Hon’ble Supreme Court of India (“SC”) recently delivered its Judgement in Association for Democratic Reforms and Ors. v. Election Commission of India...

Why the Delhi High Court is Wrong to Deny Satyendar Jain his Right to Counsel – The Criminal Law Blog

By Abhinav Sekhri It appears that by an interim order passed on 03.06.2022, the Delhi High Court has stayed operation of a portion of an...

Victims and Bail — The Judgment in Jagjeet Singh v. Ashish Mishra? – The Criminal Law Blog

By Abhinav Sekhri In a much-publicised judgment, the Supreme Court set aside the order granting bail to the main accused in the Lakhimpur Kheri incident...

 Addressing Financial Non-Regulation within Social Media Platforms – The Criminal Law Blog

-Tanya Sara George Introduction As per a 2024 FATF report, most domestic money laundering operations are conducted through open sources and social media networks. Initially...