Pratiksha Baxi
The writer is associate professor, Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University.
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Mass jailing of undertrials must end
The issue needs public health & gender sensitive approach, as overcrowded prisons have felt devastating impact of the Omicron variant
Mon, Feb 14, 2022
The broken promise of justice in rape cases
Pratiksha Baxi writes: Protests by victims and litigants highlight a culture of impunity and a legal system in urgent need of reform.
Tue, Aug 31, 2021
Delhi High Court verdict underlines the political dimensions, repressive nature of mass incarceration
Pratiksha Baxi writes: India’s penal policy must change such that jail is an exception, rather than increasing mass incarceration of pre-trial prisoners.
Wed, Jun 16, 2021
Delhi court granting bail to infant’s mother is a welcome change during the pandemic
This pandemic has taught us that by refusing to even give interim bail to women undertrials, including mothers and pregnant women or the elderly and the seriously ill, and victims of prison rape, the criminal legal system is attached to a spectacular form of cruelty.
Wed, Apr 21, 2021
Must the rights framework that limits state excess be suspended in disaster?
In violation of the non-discrimination clause of the disaster law, many undertrials are constructed as “undeserving” and condemned to inhuman, cruel and degrading treatment.
Mon, Jul 06, 2020
Violence at Gargi College points to the impunity enjoyed by the mob
The idea that women students have rights was totally irrelevant to these male mobs. The space for a college festival turned into a theatre of macabre sexual violence.
Fri, Feb 14, 2020
A mercy petition allows for rectifying miscarriage of justice, mitigates errors in the legal system
When society celebrates an encounter killing of rape suspects, our judiciary should worry.
Fri, Jan 24, 2020
Her right to choose
SC does well to criminalise marital rape of a minor wife. It also needs to classify child marriage as forced marriage
Thu, Oct 19, 2017
Netaji, unreformed
Despite overwhelming protest, critique and lobbying, there is little change in the way rape is trivialised.
Wed, Aug 26, 2015
Apologies aside
Disciplinary action cannot replace legal proceedings against sexual violence.
Mon, Nov 25, 2013When time is on the states side
The Ruchika Girhotra case is a study in brute power and legal indifference.....
Sat, Dec 26, 2009