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Showing posts with label sentencing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sentencing. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Guest Post: On Community Service as Punishment — A Proposal Not Thought Through

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( This is a guest post by Ashwani Singh ) The newly proposed penal code, Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Bill 2023 (the  2023 Bill ), introduces ‘c...
Thursday, September 28, 2023

An oddity in sentencing discretion for attempts to commit rape?

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The reform of India's rape law in the wake of the Verma Committee Report led to an overhauling of how the core of the offence was define...
Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Guest Post: Exploring The Failure of Restorative Thought in the Indian Criminal Justice System

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( This is a guest post by Hrishika Jain ) The recent execution of Akshay Singh, Mukesh Singh, Pawan Gupta and Vinay Sharma for the 2012 Del...
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Thursday, April 23, 2020

There are No Right Answers: The Supreme Court and the Purity / Mixture Debate under the NDPS Act

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On April 22, 2020, a Three Justices' Bench of the Supreme Court decided a reference made to it in Hira Singh [Crl. Appeal No. 722 of ...
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Thursday, July 26, 2018

Amendments to the Prevention of Corruption Act: Corporate Criminality

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The previous post discussed amendments to Section 8 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 [PC Act], which will now punish giving brib...
Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Guest Post - Same Day Sentencing in Death Penalty Jurisprudence

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(I am happy to host this Guest Post by Ms Nivedita Mukhija, an advocate practising in New Delhi) Section 235 of the Code of Criminal P...
Saturday, May 6, 2017

Supreme Court Affirms Death Sentence for December 16 Incident - Some Thoughts

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The Supreme Court yesterday affirmed the death sentence awarded by the Trial Court, and confirmed by the High Court, in the case resulting...