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Our 2016 Death Penalty India Report revealed the harrowing ways in which death row prisoners are tortured during their incarceration. Another study we conducted with former Supreme Court judges confirmed this reality. Swipe to read more.

Senior Advocate Amit Desai writes that the BNS does not respond to offences of our times like frauds involving new technologies or serious violations like data theft. It also, he argues, leaves out protections which could lead to arbitrariness and misuse. indianexpress.com/article/opinio…

We organised a day-long conversation with sentencing experts from UK, South Africa, and India on foundational issues concerning sentencing in criminal cases with India as a case in point.

Project 39A's study, Matters of Judgement (NLU Delhi, 2017), underscores the need for us to confront that wrongful convictions are a frequent reality of our system and to constantly question who we think is judged "guilty". Read the full study, freely available on our website.

Giving primacy to Article 21 of the Constitution, the SC while granting bail to an accused, recently noted that “Liberty of the individual is always the rule, and deprivation is the exception,” even under special laws like the PMLA. indianexpress.com/article/india/…