OPINION

OP-EDS ⁞ 16 April 2026

No licence, no jail? What the new law really means

Jan Vishwas Act, 2026 — passed by Lok Sabha on April 1 — takes forward the project of purging the law book of excessive criminalisation. Penalties, administrative sanctions, warnings are to replace violations that earlie...
Acharaj Kaur Tuteja, Ishaan Bamba, Naveed Mehmood Ahmad
OP-EDS ⁞ 03 July 2024

Similar crimes, different punishments? The problem...

Aayush, Ayushi, Naveed
OP-EDS ⁞ 01 July 2024

Battle begins: New codes versus old ways

Aashna, Ayushi
OP-EDS ⁞ 29 June 2024

7-yr jail for marriage fraud, 1 yr for forced labo...

Naveed, Ayushi, Aayush
OP-EDS ⁞ 16 May 2024

Courting the cops, always

Naveed
OP-EDS ⁞ 31 March 2024

Rahul Gandhi’s Lok Sabha Disqualification Stands o...

Naveed, Alok
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