criminal justice system

Legal Remedy

Lhendup G Bhutia

Three new laws take the place of India’s old criminal justice system with the hope of transforming it

Hangings in Pakistan

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Pakistan’s death penalty, initially reserved only for terror convicts, was extended to all capital crimes in March 2015

The Indian criminal justice sytem is like the market for garbage, where innocence and guilt can be bought and sold like polyurethane bags. This is how Abdul, the main character of Katherine Boo’s book on living and dying in a Mumbai slum, makes sense of his tragic life. An extract