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 As a piece of evidence, Dying declaration is now fairly crystal clear by judicial decisions. The importance of Dying declaration as a piece of convincing evidence is increasing with the escalation of cases, wherein th..

Intensive Supervision and Electronic Surveillance as Alternatives to Remand in Custody Ross Lay Probation and Parole Department of Corrective Services New South Wales etween July 1984 and June 1988, the number of prisoners held not under sentence in New South Wales (NSW) rose by 72.2 per cent from 580 to 999; the number of sentenced prisoners increased by 33.6 per cent during the same per..

A Police Perspective on Bail in South Australia Jonathan Tuncks font face="Tim..

            THIS Article is a rather tentative examination of the shifts in the way sexual harassment has been classified in state records with the aim of regulating crime as an effect of the women’s movements (in India and globally). In Indian criminal law, sexual harassment of women has not been enunc..

Police remand and the need for judicial activism By: A. H. Monjurul Kabir p class="MsoNorma..

Police remand and the need for judicial activism By: A. H. Monjurul Kabir p class="MsoNorma..

Objectively analyzed the criminal jurisprudence adopted by India is a mere reflection of the Victorian legacy left behind by the Britishers. The passage of time has only seen a few amendments once in a whi..

Rape is a heinous crime in our world. Now a days all civilized country enacted their own law on this topic. India is not exception of this, it also enacted it's own law under Indian penal code.1860. section 375 define rape under our law which is known by ..

If the episode over the elevation of Karnataka high court Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran is an indictment of our opaque selection and lengthy impeachment processes, here's another one. Lalit Kumar Mishra, once additional judge of the Orissa high court, became the first judge in Orissa's history to be demoted to district judge. The allegations against Mishra are that h..

1 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION CRIMINAL CONTEMPT PETITION NO. 10 OF 2009 IN I.A. NO. 1374, 1474, 2134 OF 2007 IN WRIT PETITION (c) NO. 202 OF 1995 IN THE MATTER OF: AMICUS CURIAE …PETITIONER VERSUS PRASHANT BHUSHAN & ANOTHER …R..

On January 26, in one of those nice moves that we encounter on Independence and Republic Days, the Government launched a programme to release about 2,00,000 undertrials from jails across the country. Two lakh undertrials, you gasp? Actually, we have about 3,00,000 of them locked in jail. Union law Minister Veerappa Moily has declared that two-thirds of all undertria..

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CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts Last week, the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, found himself in trouble for once suggesting that US President Barack Obama had a political edge over other African-American candidates because he was "light-skinned" and had "no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one". Reid was not expressing sadness but ..

 Juvenile Delinquency: An Overview     p class="MsoNormal" style="text-alig..

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