How India Punishes

PRIMER | 21 June 2024

How India Punishes

Third in the series on Reimagining Crime & Punishment in India, This primer intends to provide an overview of punishments prescribed under Indian laws, delve in...
Aayush Mallik, Ayushi Sharma, Naveed Mehmood Ahmad
REPORT ⁞ 05 May 2026

Procedure in Practice

In this report, we examine key procedural reforms under the BNSS through practitioner perspectives. It highlights the ga...

Neha, Ishaan
REPORT ⁞ 23 April 2025

The State of the System

In this report, we map all actions and omissions criminalised under central laws. The report also highlights inconsisten...

Aashna, Ishaan, Sriyanshi, Ayushi, Naveed
PRIMER ⁞ 21 June 2024

How India Punishes

Third in the series on Reimagining Crime & Punishment in India, This primer intends to provide an overview of punishment...

Aayush, Ayushi, Naveed
PRIMER ⁞ 22 November 2023

Towards Better Criminal Law Making

Second in the series on Reimagining Crime & Punishment in India, this primer attempts to understand the different mechan...

Neha, Naveed, Ayushi
PRIMER ⁞ 03 November 2023

Criminal Law that Ought to Be

First in the series on Reimagining Crime & Punishment in India, in this primer, we attempt to understand the Indian Stat...

Neha, Naveed
COMMENTS ⁞ 01 November 2023

Comments on the New Criminal Law Bills

In this note, we examine the aims and objectives of the three Bills, the key provisions that have been introduced and ma...

Neha, Naveed, Ayushi, Aayush, Sriyanshi
LEST WE FORGET ⁞ 04 November 2022

Penalising Before Providing

A study of enforcement of COVID-19 related norms in Delhi

Naveed, Ayushi, Alena, Neha
REPORT ⁞ 02 May 2022

Crimes Against Women in India

How did we end up here?

Neha, Naveed, Jigar, Alena, Kadambari, Karan
REPORT ⁞ 18 September 2020

Sikkim’s Alternative Model to Tackle Drug Abu...

How a health-based approach to drug abuse has ushered a positive change in Sikkim

Neha, Naveed
REPORT ⁞ 08 September 2020

Criminalisation Leads To Exploitation: The Mu...

In 2014, drug cases in Mumbai spiked by almost 500%, for no discernible reason. We study the data to see why, and what i...

Neha, Naveed
REPORT ⁞ 20 August 2020

Case for Decriminalising Cannabis Use in Indi...

Not only does drug prohibition have its roots in racist American policies but it only victimises the marginalised with n...

Neha, Naveed
REPORT ⁞ 23 August 2018

From Addict to Convict

The Working of the NDPS Act (1985) in Punjab

Neha, Arpita, Kaushiki