Criminal Justice System

The BNSS Tightrope: Supreme Court Recalibrates Arrest Powers While High Courts Chart a Fragmented Course

Two years into the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) regime, the Supreme Court has finally begun to draw the guardrails that the legislation itself failed to provide. The recent flurry of judgments—particularly the Constitution Bench’s ...