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Frozen laws, forgotten lives: The Undertrial Crisis in India's Legal Delay
Parth Anand, Manvi Bansal INTRODUCTION In India, 75.8% percent of the total prison population constitutes as undertrial prisoners. As...
SACJ NUJS
May 217 min read
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BALANCING ACT: THE DISCREPANCY BETWEEN SECTION 173(3) BNSS AND THE SUPREME COURT RULING IN LALITA KUMARI VS. GOVERNMENT OF UTTAR PRADESH
Shivam Jadaun Introduction “The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without...
SACJ NUJS
Dec 25, 20247 min read
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Anticipatory Bail for the Elderly: Exploring the judicial dilemma
Agrani Bhati, Aditya Singh INTRODUCTION In the intricate criminal justice system of India, anticipatory bail, as outlined in Section 438...
SACJ NUJS
Aug 15, 202411 min read
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Bars, Babies and Beyond: Right to Life of the Prisoner vs. the Child
Megha Gohel Alkesh INTRODUCTION ‘Imprisonment does not mean farewell to fundamental rights as laid down under Part-III of the...
SACJ NUJS
Aug 8, 202410 min read
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Maintainability of an Anticipatory Bail Application under Section 438 Cr.P.C. by a Child in Conflict with Law
Naman Pratap Singh and Hammad Siddiqui INTRODUCTION Recently, the Supreme Court entertained a petition where law regarding the...
SACJ NUJS
May 27, 20247 min read
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Criminalization of Adolescent love: Critical Analysis of the Law Commission
Sanskruti Madhukar Kale To combat the crimes of sexual exploitation against children, the Indian Parliament, in 2012, enacted Protection...
SACJ NUJS
Apr 20, 20248 min read
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Beyond Innocence: Unravelling the Constitutional Implications of Acquittal Categorization in India
Sonsie Khatri and Tresshaa Dutt Abstract This paper scrutinises the judicially created categorization of acquittals into "honourable" and...
SACJ NUJS
Apr 20, 202411 min read
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Maintainability of an Anticipatory Bail Application under Section 438 Cr.P.C. by a Child in Conflict with Law
Naman Pratap Singh and Hammad Siddiqui Recently, the Supreme Court entertained a petition where law regarding the availability of...
SACJ NUJS
Apr 20, 20247 min read
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Transforming legal paradigms: Recent Developments in Marital Rape Jurisprudence
Darshika Singh ABSTRACT Marital rape, once a hidden and taboo issue, has garnered increasing attention in recent years as societies and...
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Mar 29, 20249 min read
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Out of the frying pan, and into the fire: Extension of Police Custody under BNSS
Ishaan Singh and Kartikeya Misra Introduction The Indian government has finally brought in a much-needed revamp to replace the...
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Feb 4, 202412 min read
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The Scourge of Mob Violence – Need for a New Group Liability Paradigm
Kanishk Srinivas I. Introduction In 2017, a Muslim dairy farmer named Pehlu Khan, and his sons were stopped on the Delhi-Jaipur National...
SACJ NUJS
Nov 2, 202320 min read
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Tying Handcuffs, not Garlands on Inciters of Genocide
Abhijeet Shrivastava Introduction While India has been a state party to the Genocide Convention of 1948 for over seven decades, the...

Abhijeet Shrivastava
Sep 14, 202311 min read
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Addressing the Impact of Delay in Reporting FIRs to the Magistrate under S. 157 (1).
Navjot Punia Introduction S. 157 (1)[1] of Code of Criminal Procedure states- “If, from information received or otherwise, an officer in...
SACJ NUJS
Jun 23, 202311 min read
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CUSTODIAL VIOLENCE IN INDIA
Ishita Ayala INTRODUCTION “Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo -...
SACJ NUJS
Jun 12, 20238 min read
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Stalk(h)er: Unravelling the Treacherous Conundrum
BR Garima Rao and Prerak Sheode Abstract The seemingly innocuous crime of Stalking has become more dangerous than ever in the 21st...
SACJ NUJS
Jun 3, 202324 min read
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CONSENT AS AN EXCEPTION TO MURDER: THE NEED FOR A ROBUST JUDICIAL FRAMEWORK Violenti Non Fit Injuria
Anushka PS Introduction The law governing consent as a defence presents a predominant issue- whether criminal law can adopt consent as a...
SACJ NUJS
May 13, 202313 min read
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EXPLORING CRIMINAL LIABILITY IN SELF-LEARNING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.
Parul Anand Could Artificial intelligence commit a crime? If yes, who will be held liable? Would it be the manufacturer, programmer,...
SACJ NUJS
Mar 26, 20239 min read
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The various inconsistencies of law on Aggravated rape in India.
Sanskruti Yukta Nayak The absence of a definite statutory provision on aggravated rape has led to numerous erroneous and whimsical...
SACJ NUJS
Jan 31, 202319 min read
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SECTION 124A, IPC & SECTION 66A, IT ACT: THE TWO COMPELLING COUNTERPARTS
Sri Janani S The heated debate revolving around the scrapping of Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, has pointedly put forth...
SACJ NUJS
Dec 28, 202212 min read
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MAKING JURISPRUDENTIAL SENSE OF NORMATIVE INTERACTIONS BENEATH THE INDIAN EVIDENCE ACT
Pragun Goyel I. Introduction The anthropology of law is an important section of modern legal pluralism developed in consonance with legal...
SACJ NUJS
Dec 24, 202212 min read
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