Vikash Narain News Today

Vikash Narain Rai EVER since the Supreme Court’s September 2006 judgment on police reforms, Prakash Singh, a co-petitioner in the case and author of the book ‘The Struggle for Police Refo

The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022, was typically bulldozed through Parliament last month. It replaces the Identification of Prisoners Act, 1920. It was repeatedly emphasised by the Central Government that, apart from the incorporation of latest technology, the law empowered the poli

Prevention and retaliation are the inevitable stages covered by the police in controlling any major agitation. However, some of the methods used by the Yogi Adityanath government in mafia-dominated UP have been judged to be way beyond legal limits. The Supreme Court ordered recently that the recover

Here is a routine police news that appeared in the newspapers on December 8, presumably reassuring the readers about there being an even-handed police set-up rather than alarming them about the uneven

Following the Supreme Court intervention in the Lakhimpur Kheri case, the rule of law appears to be on course after the arrest of the prime suspect, the son of a Union Minister of State. The same, how

THE common perception of justice at the police station level seems vastly different from what is examined by the constitutional courts in India. One is guided by local expediency, while the other favo

THE battle against hate speech, communal vandalism and mob lynching has to be won in the subordinate courts. The trend of politically guided police investigations in such cases can be bucked if the ju

ON the first anniversary of the communal riots in north-east Delhi, numerous humanitarian, administrative and judicial accounts are being updated or freshly circulated in the media. Available statisti