Discharge
6 articles tagged with "Discharge".
The BNSS Teething Phase: Supreme Court Draws Hard Lines on Cognizance, Arrests, and Default Bail
The Transition is Over, The Interpretation Begins We are well into 2026, and the dust from the monumental shift to the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) has finally settled. But for practicing criminal lawyer...
The Ghost No More: Supreme Court Elevates Section 223(1) BNSS to a Substantive Right, Changing Complaint Cases Forever
The Paradigm Shift in Pre-Cognizance Procedure For decades, criminal defense lawyers in India operated under a settled, albeit frustrating, procedural reality under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPC): at the pre-cognizance stage of a private...
The Spirit of Arnesh Kumar Survives: Supreme Court Cements Arrest Safeguards and CrPC Continuity Under BNSS
The BNSS is Not a Blank Slate for Police Overreach For the past several months, the Indian criminal bar has been wrestling with a pervasive anxiety: does the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) wipe out decades of hard-fought procedural safegua...
The Ghost of Arnesh Kumar: Supreme Court Reins in Police Powers Under the New BNSS Regime
The Procedural Whiplash of the BNSS Era The transition from the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPC) to the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) has left trial courts and practicing advocates in a state of procedural whiplash. However, a flur...
Old Jurisprudence, New Clocks: Supreme Court Cements 'Arnesh Kumar' in BNSS and Clarifies Strict 60-Day Discharge Timelines
It is May 2026, and the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) has been the law of the land for almost two years. Yet, trial courts, investigating agencies, and defense counsels remain locked in a daily tug-of-war over a fundamental question: How ...
Arnesh Kumar 2.0: Supreme Court Cements the 'Notice Over Arrest' Rule in the BNSS Era
The Illusion of a Blank Slate When the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) replaced the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), a palpable anxiety rippled through the Indian defense bar. The primary fear? That decades of hard-fought, liberty-centric...
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