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Apurva Vishwanath’s fortnightly column

How to kill a criminal justice system – rewarding prosecutors for death sentences

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Reforming India’s criminal justice system needs more innovation than forcing prosecutors to perform or perish.
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Supreme Court decision in Manoj Tiwari case is a cue for it to back off from sealing drive

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Sealing buildings is the biggest example of the kind of judicial activism that Supreme Court must stay away from.
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How the Supreme Court took it upon itself to become a daily criminal investigation monitor

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Supreme Court’s priorities expose its lack of confidence in every other institutional process except for its own.
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What happens when corruption scandals hit the Supreme Court? Nothing

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Indian courts deal with corruption charges against its judges in two ways: Transfers or looking away
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Supreme Court merely sniffing secret envelopes to see if there’s a scam in Rafale deal

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Opposition has already approached the CVC and the CAG on Rafale deal.
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Firecracker order shows in post-PIL India, Supreme Court has no time for fact-checks

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Delhi pollution ruling shows it is time for courts to retreat in order to truly uphold a citizen’s right to clean air.
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In #MeToo era, this colonial-era law also needs to be junked

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By choosing to file a criminal defamation case only against Priya Ramani, M.J. Akbar makes no effort to hide his intentions.
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India’s MeToo will succeed if our laws catch up with it

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The language of law must bring greater awareness of our rights and should enable us to hold the state accountable.
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Indian courts need MBAs and not Chief Justice to deal with pendency

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The blame for pendency lies at the judiciary’s doorstep.
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The Indian Brett Kavanaugh who cannot be named

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It is time Indian judges start cleaning up their own house as they pronounce landmark verdicts every day on gender equality.
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