OPINION

OP-EDS ⁞ 08 March 2025

Stop Creating Outlaws by Oversight

True decriminalisation, whether to improve ease of living or ease of doing business, requires a clear, principled stance on what we, as a state, deem worthy of criminalisation and why.

Naveed Mehmood Ahmad

Jan Vishwas bill Decriminalisation

OP-EDS ⁞ 11 March 2024

Uttarakhand UCC intrudes unnecessarily into privat...

Ayushi, Kartavi

OP-EDS ⁞ 08 January 2024

Bilkis Bano case: Why SC revoked remission orders ...

Ayushi, Naveed

OP-EDS ⁞ 29 December 2023

The Three New Bills Are a Lesson on How Not to Dra...

Naveed

OP-EDS ⁞ 23 November 2023

Reimagining crime and punishment in India

Neha

OP-EDS ⁞ 16 November 2023

Clause 111 of BNS: The terrorism of vaguely worded...

Sriyanshi

OP-EDS ⁞ 09 November 2023

How to truly decolonise criminal law, make it ‘Ind...

Aayush

OP-EDS ⁞ 02 November 2023

New criminal codes fall short on reforms on severa...

Naveed, Ameen

OP-EDS ⁞ 31 October 2023

House panel’s coding doesn’t fix the problem

Ayushi, Naveed

OP-EDS ⁞ 26 October 2023

BNSS falls short on systemic reforms in criminal j...

Shikha

Remission Femicide

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OP-EDS ⁞ 19 October 2023

Systemic assessment should precede criminal law re...

Deepika

OP-EDS ⁞ 17 October 2023

Prosecuting Arundhati Roy After 13 Years Raises Qu...

Ayushi, Naveed

OP-EDS ⁞ 12 October 2023

Gender matters: BNS misses femicide that hides beh...

Prathiksha

OP-EDS ⁞ 05 October 2023

The Victorian imprint continues in Bharatiya Nyaya...

Ayushi, Naveed

OP-EDS ⁞ 28 September 2023

Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, still stuck in colonial e...

Alok

OP-EDS ⁞ 21 September 2023

The BNS: A missed opportunity for gender inclusivi...

Kanav

OP-EDS ⁞ 04 September 2023

New Codes: Selective decriminalisation, selective ...

Naveed