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The police have finalised a comprehensive security plan to maintain law and order during the Independence Day celebrations across the country.Besides policemen, personnel from Dolphin Force, special...

Three new bills aim to replace British-era codes that govern India. But Parliament must take care to excise the bad provisions while not diluting the good

Section 144 also imposed in Islamabad against sale and usage of honking toy horns

An official in the MHA said that a committee was set up under the chairmanship of the Vice Chancellor of National Law University, Delhi to prepare the new law.

From technological changes to allow trials via video-conferencing to allowing handcuffs for the arrest of persons in some cases including murder, rape, and counterfeit currency — these are some of the main changes proposed in the CrPC.

What does the stated effort, through the proposed legislation, to overhaul the criminal justice system really achieve — or not achieve? What must be done to bring about the critical changes that are needed?

Bills seek to facilitate the death penalty for mob lynching and sexual assaults on minors and replace sedition with a new offence of 'endangering the unity' of the country

Three bills of momentous significance aimed at replacing British-era laws with a thrust on “justice instead of punishment” were introduced in Lok Sabha by Union Home Minister Amit Shah

The proposed bill, which has been referred to the Standing Committee for review, contains a provision under section 195 that deals with those spreading 'fake news .

Legal colonial baggage must be shed with prudence and intelligence. Parts and portions that no longer suit the present, archaic words and emotions of ‘disaffection’ termed seditious must be dropped without remorse