Origin of polygraph examination The origins of polygraph examination have been traced back to the efforts of Lombroso, a criminologist who experimented with a machine that measured blood pressure and…
Narcoanalysis technique is the test which involves the intravenous administration of a drug that causes the subject to enter into a hypnotic trance and become less inhibited. The drug-induced hypnotic…
Selvi v. State of Karnataka, (2010) is a landmark case on the issue of narco test, where the court considered this conflict of desirability of efficient investigation and the preservation…
Answers that would in themselves support a conviction are confessions but answers which have a reasonable tendency strongly to point out to the guilt of the accused are incriminatory.
Article 20(3) of the Constitution gives the protection against self-incrimination. (we have discussed this right in detail HERE, and, in present article, we will discuss its another aspect). But, the…
Along with the `rule against double-jeopardy‘ and the `rule against retrospective criminalisation’ enumerated in Article 20, ‘right against self-incrimination’ is one of the fundamental protections of Article 20 in Indian…
The Tragedy Early in the morning of December 3, 1984, one of the greatest industrial tragedies that history has recorded got clamped down on the otherwise quiet township of Bhopal,…
Article 136 Article 136 is a power to appeal in the apex court, which can be filed by any person against any judgment or order of any Court or tribunal…
Under Article 226 of the Constitution, the High Court has been given the power and jurisdiction to issue appropriate Writs in the nature of Mandamus, Certiorari, Prohibition, Quo-warranto and Habeas…
Thus the Cabinet stands or falls together. Where the policy of a particular minister is under attack, it is the government as whole which is being attacked. Thus the defeat…
