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Naveed Mehmood Ahmad

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New criminal codes fall short on reforms on several counts

An old wine in a new bottle may be an apt metaphor for these bills. The bulk of their provisions seem paraphrased or to replicate, rather than shun, colonial servility.

01 November 2023, 21:54 IST

New criminal codes fall short on reforms on several counts

New criminal codes fall short on reforms on several counts

New criminal codes fall short on reforms on several counts

01 November 2023, 21:54 IST

The Victorian imprint continues in Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita

While the BNS has dropped the provision criminalising adultery (Section 497 of the IPC), giving effect to the Supreme Court’s decision in Joseph Shine v. Union of India (2019), it continues to retain the provision on enticing a married woman (Clause 83) and the marital rape exception (Clause 63).

05 October 2023, 00:24 IST

The Victorian imprint continues in Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita

The Victorian imprint continues in Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita

The Victorian imprint continues in Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita

05 October 2023, 00:24 IST

A lost opportunity to find and erase the ‘colonial’ in the Penal Code

Seven-and-a-half decades post-Independence, is the IPC still really rooted in colonial values?

30 August 2023, 20:13 IST

A lost opportunity to find and erase the ‘colonial’ in the Penal Code

A lost opportunity to find and erase the ‘colonial’ in the Penal Code

A lost opportunity to find and erase the ‘colonial’ in the Penal Code

30 August 2023, 20:13 IST