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The committee is elated to announce that the recent work and efforts of the committee in establishing the pro-bono club have been widely covered in the newspapers across the state. The Pro Bono club has been opened in collaboration with the Department of Justice...

Childrens reading Manu bhandari and Premchand in @SurpuraLibrary and dear friend @Vishwas19_99 is talking to them. @AidCommittee @ALALibrary @FreeLibFriends @FreeLibrarySac @nilanjanaroy

The committee is elated to announce that the recent work and efforts of the committee in establishing the community library in Surpura have been widely covered in the newspapers across the state.

“Embracing conspiracy comes at a cost to the sphere of exercising basic freedoms” – writes @abhinavsekhri10 in his second instalment to the ‘Conspiracy’ series. Read here – criminallawstudiesnluj.wordpress.com/2021/11/19/con… #conspiracy #ipc #substantive #criminallaw #liberty #criminalconspiracy #freedom

“The litmus test of judging whether prosecution of an act by a servant requires a prior sanction is to examine the nexus as to whether the act fell within the discharge of the public servant’s duty.”– writes Devansh Pandit. Read here– criminallawstudiesnluj.wordpress.com/2021/10/27/wha… #crpc #prosecution

“[Section 295A of IPC] acts as a weapon of suppressing dissent and prevents even fair criticism for social reform”– writes Aditi Gupta for @NLUJCrimLawBlog. Read here– criminallawstudiesnluj.wordpress.com/2021/10/09/sec… #section295a #section153a #article19 #ipc #religion #outragingfeelings #shahrukhkhan

“Since the last decade, India has witnessed copious numbers of Necrophilia cases and still, we do not have any specific penal provisions that deal with such crimes” – writes Rohan Mishra. Read here – criminallawstudiesnluj.wordpress.com/2021/10/03/the… #necrophilia #article21 #section377 #section297 #ipc

Rishabh Saumya in this post for @NLUJCrimLawBlog analyses the evidentiary value of virtual personal assistants with the proliferation of Alexa in the Indian market. Read here– criminallawstudiesnluj.wordpress.com/2021/09/18/ale… #amazon #echo #alexa #evidence #indianevidenceact #criminallaw #siri #google

“The broad definition of ‘terrorism’ in the GCOTC Act has wider implications for the citizens who protest against the government” – write Darshil Sakhia & Pratham Shah for @NLUJCrimLawBlog. Read here– criminallawstudiesnluj.wordpress.com/2021/09/15/guj… #unlawfulactivity #terrorism #organisedcrimes #gcotc

“This creates a world where there is democracy at the helm, and a stubborn aristocracy at the roots, imperfectly disguised and comfortably distinguishable” – write Injila Khan & Utkarsh Mishra. Read here– criminallawstudiesnluj.wordpress.com/2021/09/12/dis… #VIP #arbitrary #government #procedure #babaramdev

“The stigma associated with tainted confessions can never be cured but laws can definitely be adapted to changing needs and requirements of the society” – writes Shambhavi Shani. Read here– criminallawstudiesnluj.wordpress.com/2021/09/10/awa… #custody #confession #policebrutality #evidence #reforms #Crime

“The non-criminalisation of marital rape not only denies her equal protection of law and full citizenship rights but also hurts the institution of marriage built on trust and intimacy” – writes @saintlysethi_02. Read here – criminallawstudiesnluj.wordpress.com/2021/09/08/mar… #maritalrape #rape #s375 #ipc

“Armed forces form a distinct class and decriminalising adultery would not do good, rather would lead to the defeat of justice, if an explicit provision for criminalisation is not carved out”–writes Digvijay Sahni. Read here– criminallawstudiesnluj.wordpress.com/2021/09/01/cri… #adultery #armedforces #ipc

“The mere status of crime will not prevent ‘ecocide’ rather the ideology and spirit of the law should focus solely on mitigating environmental damage” – writes Swetha Somu for @NLUJCrimLawBlog. Read here – criminallawstudiesnluj.wordpress.com/2021/09/01/eco… #ecocide #france #crime #pollution #environment

@abhinavsekhri10 in this post argues that TPDL is designed to subvert the judicial process in order to grant more expediency at the cost of civil liberties. Read here – criminallawstudiesnluj.wordpress.com/2021/08/30/ren… #criminalprocedure #criminaljustice #preventivedetention #tada #uapa #supremecourt

"Deliberations are important for enacting a well-structured and drafted legislation, they enable the legislature to correct the lacuna existing in an enactment before-hand." - writes @VidhikK on POSH Act. Read here - criminallawstudiesnluj.wordpress.com/2021/08/20/pro… #posh #vishakha #sexualharassment

"Curiosity is a characteristic of adolescence but society has to satiate it through education and encourage the youth to employ it towards self-improvement and to become better individuals."–write Yana Gupta & @Ayu_shhhhh Read here- criminallawstudiesnluj.wordpress.com/2021/08/10/soc… #socialmedia #juveniles

In this second part of a two-part series, Sarthak Wadhwa argues how ‘common intention’ under Section 34 of the IPC can substitute the charge of ‘criminal conspiracy’ under Section 120B. Read here– criminallawstudiesnluj.wordpress.com/2021/07/26/in-… #criminalconspiracy #conspiracy #ipc #disharavi #highcourt

In this first part of a two-part series, Sarthak Wadhwa discusses ‘criminal conspiracy’ as defined under Section 120A of IPC and critiques the law for its potential for abuse against dissidents. Read here - criminallawstudiesnluj.wordpress.com/2021/07/25/cra… #criminalconspiracy #conspiracy #ipc #highcourt

‘For criminalisation under Section 295A, maintenance of public order must not be an end itself; instead, it should act as a standard to differentiate between the two offences.’– write Kirti Meena and @SandliPawar Read here- criminallawstudiesnluj.wordpress.com/2021/07/24/sec… #IPC #section295a #harm #offence