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  • Opinion
  • 17 Apr 2023
  • 1 min read

What Atiq’s Killing Tells Courts and State About Dharma

SC severely critiques extra-judicial killings. But when it comes to pronouncing guilt, it baulks

This opinion was published in Times of India on April 17, 2023.

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About the Authors
Arghya Sengupta

Arghya is the Founder and Research Director at Vidhi. His areas of specialisation are constitutional law and regulation of the digital economy. He has served on a number of government committees including the B.N. Srikrishna-led committee of experts on a data protection framework for India. Arghya has a number of academic publications on the Supreme Court and the Constitution in leading law journals such as Law Quarterly Review and Public Law. He is also a columnist at The Telegraph and The Times of India. He has most recently authored a book “Independence and Accountability of the Indian Higher Judiciary” (Cambridge, 2019) which builds on his doctoral work at Oxford University. Prior to founding Vidhi, he was at Oxford as a Lecturer in Administrative Law at Pembroke College.

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