This post analyses changes introduced to the provision on death by negligence, including enhancement of punishment and obligatory reporting mechanisms.
This post analyses the issues with imposing a mandatory minimum of a whole life sentence as punishment for murder and attempt to murder by life convicts.
This post analyses concerns around the new additions for mob lynching in the provisions for murder and grievous hurt.
This post analyses the constitutive elements of the sexual offences framework envisaged by the Bill and highlights issues that emerge.
This post analyses the ambiguities brought about by Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Bill 2023 in defining “life imprisonment” as imprisonment for the remainder of natural life.
Three bills were introduced in the Lok Sabha that sought to repeal and replace the Indian Penal Code, 1860, Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, and the Indian Evidence Act, 1872. In the third installment, Project 39A has prepared the document comparing the proposed Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 with the current provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.
Three bills were introduced in the Lok Sabha that sought to repeal and replace the Indian Penal Code, 1860, Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, and the Indian Evidence Act, 1872. In the third installment, Project 39A has prepared the document comparing the proposed Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 with the current provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.
Three bills were introduced in the Lok Sabha that sought to repeal and replace the Indian Penal Code, 1860, Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, and the Indian Evidence Act, 1872. In the second installment, Project 39A has prepared the document comparing the proposed Bharatiya Sakshya Bill, 2023 with the current provisions of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872.
Three bills were introduced in the Lok Sabha that sought to repeal and replace the Indian Penal Code, 1860, Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, and the Indian Evidence Act, 1872. In the first installment, Project 39A has prepared the document comparing the proposed Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Bill, 2023 (BNS) with the current provisions of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC).
The article borrows from the United States of America to examine whether lethal injections are an appropriate mode of execution and a feasible alternative to hanging by the neck in India.