Criminal Justice & Police Accountability Project

The CPA Project turns 6 this year!!! As a way to celebrate this milestone, we’re organizing a small book donation drive! 📚📖 We seek your help in filling up our shelves with books, old and new, that you have enjoyed reading and derived value from!

We are looking for books based on a wide range of themes, from anti-caste and feminist fiction to political philosophy to world historical fiction! If you or anyone you know has books centered around these themes please do consider donating them to us!!! DM us for more details.

The CPA Project turns 6 this year!!! As a way to celebrate this milestone, we’re organizing a small book donation drive! 📚📖 We seek your help in filling up our shelves with books, old and new, that you have enjoyed reading and derived value from!

Justice Anjana Prakash has begun her address highlighting the outrageous nature of incarceration of minors, the unconscionable ways of habitual offender provisions being extended to children. Join us at the @TheLeaflet_in's YT here!

For the first time, this year The Leaflet joins hands as media partners with the Criminal Justice and Police Accountability Project to commemorate 73 years of the repeal of the Criminal Tribes Act. Join us live on our YouTube on September 6, 5:30 PM. theleaflet.in/leaflet-report…

@TheLeaflet_in The link to the lecture is👇 -youtube.com/watch?v=9Ne7-Y…

@TheLeaflet_in Vimukta diwas (liberation day) is to commemorate 73 years of the repeal of the Criminal Tribes Act of 1871. This year's lecture will be delivered by Hon'ble (Retd.) Justice, High Court of Patna and Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India Anjana Prakash. (2/3)

📢 Event alert 📢 Join us for the CPA Project's Annual Vimukta Diwas Lecture titled 'Juvenile Justice and the Criminalisation of the Vimukta Children' on 6th September, 2025 at 5.30 PM. (1/3)

Happy Vimukta Diwas! Today marks the 73rd anniversary of the repeal of the casteist colonial Criminal Tribes Act, 1871. On this occasion we are sharing a poem written by our member Advocate Tasveer Parmar (@Asurtasveer1).

Apart from an overrepresentation of caste oppressed communities in who was arrested, the data shockingly revealed that a large number of arrests were not mandatory! (2/2) Read more at 🔗cpaproject.in

We are proud to anounce that our 'Everyday Police in Guna, Madhya Pradesh' report is out now! The Report studied 20k+ arrest records from Guna to uncover the patterns of police work that was undertaken. (1/2)

My piece in the @DeccanHerald analysing the SC's recent order making disclosure of 'criminal antecedents' mandatory for bail. Link below: deccanherald.com/opinion/crimin…

The SC ordered the arrest of MP police officers accused of the custodial killing of Deva Pardhi. This is a vindication of the struggle by Deva's family & the Pardhi community in MP. For us, @CPAProjectIndia, this is an impt step in making caste legible to institutions of power

🌟 HIRING ALERT 🌟 We're hiring for a senior research associate to join us in Bhopal. A once in a blue moon opportunity because we're not for lawyers alone! JD: shorturl.at/wCjt6 DM or email for clarifications!

रिपोर्ट विमोचन के बाद ‘संवैधानिक लोकतंत्र में पुलिसिंग’ विषय पर पैनल चर्चा आयोजित है। तारीख: 3 मई, 2025 समय: सुबह 10:45 से स्थल: महादेवी वर्मा कक्ष, हिंदी भवन, भोपाल (2/2)

📢 इवेंट अलर्ट 📢 3 मई को हमारी रिपोर्ट "एवरीडे पुलिसिंग इन गुना" के विमोचन के अवसर पर हमसे जुड़ें, जो एमपी के गुना जिले में विमुक्त पारधी समुदाय के सदस्यों की पुलिस हिरासत में हत्याओं के पैटर्न पर प्रकाश डालती है। (1/2)

The @CPAProjectIndia will release a report uncovering patterns of policing in Guna-- a region that has witnessed custodial killings of Vimukta Pardhi men by the MP Police The report findings will reveal how Guna is the NORM for the police. Join us in Bhopal on 3rd May

The release will be followed by a panel discussion on "Policing in a Constitutional Democracy". Date: 3rd May, 2025 Time: 10:45 AM onwards Where: Mahadevi Verma Kaksh, Hindi Bhawan, Bhopal (2/2)

📢 EVENT ALERT 📢 Join us on 3rd May for the release our report "Everyday Policing in Guna" that highlights the patterns in Guna district of MP that has witnessed the custodial killings of members of the Vimukta Pardhi community. (1/2)

⚖️"Young people have a very crucial role in the way their potential can be harnessed to think about new forms of #Justice." @glorious_gluten highlights ideas of #decriminalisation, redistributive justice and transformative justice in South Asia & beyond! #ECOSOCYouth #HearUsNow