Govt body recommendation that the colonial law be retained sidesteps the significant damage it is causing citizens today – and still fails to establish any contemporary use of the provision

If his sentence has been suspended by the trial court, are there still grounds for disqualification?

The challenge to death by hanging on the ground that it takes away a person’s dignity in death and is inhumane and barbaric, may be limited in its scope, but it may prove to be a landmark in the death penalty urisprudence in India

Criminal defamation, under which Gandhi was convicted, is worded dangerously vaguely. SC had missed at opportunity to junk a law that has a chilling effect on free speech

Though the 2013 amendments to criminal laws recognised new offences like stalking and increased punishments for many sexual offences, it has failed to tackle sexual and gender-based violence, due to acts of omission and commission by police and courts. From dealing with such systemic biases to tackling intimate partner violence, many issues remain unaddressed

Arrests in Assam are only a symptom of a larger problem - the State's constant over-reliance on criminal law to deal with prickly societal problems

Summary decriminalisation efforts no cure to make Indian laws more responsible.