Criminal Practice India
8 articles tagged with "Criminal Practice India".
The BNSS Shake-Up: Supreme Court Reins in Police Discretion on Arrests, Remand, and "Endless" Investigations
The Dust Settles on the New Criminal Codes: Courts Draw Hard Lines We are now deep enough into the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) regime to see how the new laws survive their first contact with the cou...
The BNSS Bites Back: Supreme Court Weaponizes New Procedural Safeguards Against Mechanical FIRs and ED Overreach
The Tactical Reset: Why the BNSS is a Boon for the Defense Bar When the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) replaced the CrPC, the defense bar braced for a draconian winter. But a close reading of the Supreme Court’s early 2026 criminal law dig...
The BNSS Honeymoon is Over for Investigating Agencies: Supreme Court Tightens the Leash on Arrests and Mechanical FIRs
For criminal practitioners, the transition from the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPC) to the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) has been a period of cautious recalibration. While the State championed the new criminal codes as a pan...
The Supreme Court is Weaponizing the BNSS to Tame Police Overreach: What Sec 35(3) Means for Your Practice
When the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) were rushed through Parliament, the criminal bar braced for a winter of civil liberties. The consensus was that expanded police remand periods and broader defini...
The BNSS Loophole: How a Drafting Oversight Just Blew Open the SC/ST Act Anticipatory Bail Bar
The Price of Hasty Legislation When the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) replaced our colonial-era penal codes on July 1, 2024, the central government promised a seamless, modernized criminal justice sys...
Supreme Court Rescues Bail Jurisprudence from BNSS Drafting Traps, While High Courts Tighten the Noose on Section 69 BNS
The Honeymoon Period for the New Criminal Codes is Over For the first two years, the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) were largely subjects of academic debate and seminar speculations. In 2026, the rubbe...
The End of Boilerplate Bail: Supreme Court Rescues Section 480 BNSS from Trial Court Chaos
The Teething Pains of the New Criminal Codes We are almost two years into the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) replacing our old criminal framework, and the trial courts are still stumbling in the dark. ...
The BNSS Arrest Mandate and Section 69 BNS Chaos: Why Early 2026 Jurisprudence Demands a Defense Strategy Shift
The Honeymoon Period for the New Criminal Laws is Over For Indian criminal law practitioners, the theoretical debates surrounding the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) are officially dead. The rubber has met ...
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