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S Karthikeyan
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Duties and Potential Liability of Protest Organisers for Crowd Conduct and Public Safety
Introduction The right to protest is constitutionally protected and politically foundational. A democracy without effective channels for popular dissent is a democracy only in form,...
From Imprisonment to Restoration: A Critical Analysis of Community Service as a Non-Custodial Sentence under the BNS and BNSS, 2023
Introduction India’s prison system is in crisis. As of December 2022, the National Crime Records Bureau’s Prison Statistics India report recorded an overall prison occupancy...
Arrest Rules for Women: What Are Your Rights When Police Seek to Question or Detain a Female Citizen?
Introduction In India, the power to arrest is among the most intrusive interventions that the State exercises over the individual. It suspends liberty, separates a...
The Magistrate as a Gatekeeper of Criminal Justice: Re-examining Remedies Against FIR Refusal
Introduction The registration of a First Information Report is the threshold act that admits a citizen into the machinery of criminal justice. Without a registered...
Is an Oral Partition of a Joint Family Property Legally Valid in India? Supreme Court Rulings, the Section 6 Proviso, and the Post-2005 Doctrinal Landscape
I. Setting the Scene: The Quiet Dissolution of Joint Families The oral partition of Hindu joint family property occupies an unusual place in Indian jurisprudence....