The Union government’s surprise decision to introduce three proposed codes to overhaul the colonial-era statutes that governed India’s criminal justice system must rank among the most ambitious pieces of reforms attempted in India’s legal architecture in the past few decades. The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 and Bharatiya Sakshya Bill, […]
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Among the slew of colonial-era statutes that survive in India’s criminal law books today, sedition is among the most controversial. Drafted by the British government to kneecap the freedom struggle, the law was effectively used by the colonial administration to imprison Indian leaders on non-specific but sweeping charges. Though the law survived post-Independence, there has […]