“This Court has repeatedly admonished trigger-happy police personnel, who liquidate criminals and project the incident as an encounter. Such killings must be deprecated. They are not recognised as legal by…
The case arose when journalist Sheela Barse wrote a letter to Supreme Court complaining the custodial violence to women prisoners whilst confined in the police lock up in the city…
The case of ‘Air India v. Nargesh Mirza (1981)’ is an important case on Article 14 when the court laid down a broad perspective of equality. The Institution of the…
In the case of ‘Murli S. deora v. Union of India (2001)’, a petition came before the Supreme Court to prohibit smoking in public places. In the petition, it was…
“The very existence of the rule of law and the fear of being brought to book operates as a deterrent to those who have no scruples in killing others if…
“Liberty has, therefore, to be limited in order to be effectively possessed.”- Justice Patanjali Sastri The question of the constitutional validity of Death Penalty given under Section 302 of Indian…
Under Indian Penal Code, death is the punishment that must be awarded for murder by a person under sentence of imprisonment for life (Sec. 303). This apart, the Penal Code…
The truth is that some crimes are so outrageous that society insists on adequate punishment, because the wrongdoer deserves it. Whether or not death penalty in actual practice acts as…
The death penalty is provided under section 302 of Indian penal code, which provides the offence for murder. The Indian Penal Code was drafted by the First Indian Law Commission…
Hawking on the streets of Delhi, whose municipal limits have expanded over the years, has been the subject matter of several proceedings in Supreme Court. Initially in the early sixties,…
