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The 1860 Indian Penal Code (IPC) underpins India's criminal justice system. This document outlines the country's criminal laws. Criminal justice ensures victims receive justice and perpetrators are punished. Criminal defendants will be treated equally and have their legal rights protected. Police, courts, and jails make up India's criminal justice system. The police investigate crimes and apprehend criminals, and victims first contact them. The judicial system punishes through trials and sentences, while the correctional system rehabilitates and prevents reoffending. Law enforcement, courts, and prisons are crucial to India's criminal justice system. Police investigate crime, find criminals, and enforce the law. The judiciary must uphold justice and impartiality. Rehabilitating inm...

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Tossed Aside: Political Intervention Makes Mushroom Quotas A Mess, Courts Should Stay Out; Analysis

Sayani ChakrabortyNovember 9, 20220

Whatever their original motivation may have been, 70 years later reservations are not actually about alleviating poverty. The politics of caste allegations have grown rapidly in recent decades, fueling their aggressive development. As a result, the courts have compounded their actions in a way that follows the political flow, rather than defending the constitutional guardrails on the issue. Despite the high income cap of this quota and its high caste makeup, the highest court affirmed both an EWS quota and an arguable infringement of the 50% lakshman rekha this week. In sum, the four separate interpretations of the EWS ruling have only served to sow further confusion and uncertainty. A regulation passed in Maharashtra last year that favoured the Marathas while increasing the tota...

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U U Lalit Hopes To Make Reforms Despite His Short Stint As Chief Justice Of India

Sayani ChakrabortyAugust 30, 20220

UU Lalit, who is slated to become the next Chief Justice of India, has already made significant progress toward enhancing the internal processes of the Supreme Court. Reviewing the fact that the court has a history of being criticised for taking an excessively slow approach when considering constitutional and other critical matters (such as Article 370, electoral bonds, the EWS quota, etc.), this is of utmost importance. An exciting new method for cataloguing cases, which he has pledged to put into place by Thursday, is currently the subject of much anticipation. The fact that today two constitutional benches, each consisting of five judges, are sitting is another positive development. Yesterday, the bench presided over by CJI Lalit dismissed a number of cases known as public int...

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Remembering Daniel Villegas’ Unfair 25-Year Imprisonment

Agamapar ChadhaJuly 4, 20220

Daniel Villegas is a 44-year-old man who was wrongfully convicted by the El Paso Police Department ( E.P.P.D.) at the age of sixteen for the double murder of two teenagers, namely Armando Lazo and Bobby (Robert ) England. He spent 25 years in prison after being sentenced to life imprisonment before finally proving his innocence in a re-trial in 2018. This all began when on 10th April 1993, when four young men, Armando Lazo, Bobby(Robert), England, Jesse Hernandez, and Juan Medina, were shot after returning from a party. Jesse and Juan escaped, but Lazo and England were shot and died. The E.P.P.D. Officers Marquez, Graves, Arbogast and Laredo were investigating the murder case. They interrogated Micheal Johnston for eight hours, threatening him. The other suspect was David Rangel,...

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Infidelity Pleasure More Than Sin: France’s Paternity Test Ban To Ensue Societal Chaos?

Agamapar ChadhaJune 20, 20220

The paternity test checks whether a child is the father’s offspring and involves extracting blood from the father and the child. These samples are given to a lab for analysis to prove/disprove a man is a child’s father. These tests have an obvious way of being useful as a tool for examining genetic conditions. This data would help in times of medical crisis. Socially and financially, this test has many undertones with “absent fathers” paying child support to the previously helpless mothers, extra-marital affairs getting caught, and mothers not being able to claim fatherhood to take financial backing. France, however, stands apart from these implications by banning genetic testing altogether. Tests are performed under strict restrictions by the court’s orders in the circumstances ...