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24 articles tagged with "Remand".
The Supreme Court’s 2026 Part III Renaissance: Why Your Remand Strategy and Municipal PILs Just Changed
The End of Pro-Forma Arrests: Article 22 Gets Literal Teeth If you practice criminal defense, the Supreme Court’s September 2026 ruling on Article 22 is the most significant procedural weapon handed to you this year. The Court didn’t just reiterate t...
The End of Ex-Parte Cognizance: How the Supreme Court’s 2026 BNSS Rulings are Rewriting Criminal Practice
The Pre-Cognizance Wall: Section 223(1) BNSS For decades, the bedrock of Indian criminal procedure regarding private complaints was simple: the accused has no locus standi before the issuance of process. Under the old Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC...
The BNSS Reality Check: Courts Scrutinize Police Overreach in Arrests and Investigations
When the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) replaced the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), the defense bar was understandably skeptical. Was this merely a cosmetic rebranding, or would the new code actually curb systemic police overreach? Jud...
The Ghost of Arnesh Kumar Lives On: Supreme Court Tames BNSS Arrest Powers with "Fresh Material" Mandate
The Blueprint of the New Criminal Codes is Being Redrawn by the Courts When the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) replaced the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), the defense bar held its collective breath. The statutory text seemed to grant u...
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 Supreme Court Tames the BNSS: Why the 2026 Rulings on Arrest and Remand Are a Massive Win for the Defense Bar
When the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) replaced the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) on July 1, 2024, a collective shudder went through the Indian defense bar. The expanded timelines for police remand and the ambiguous wording around pre...
The Supreme Court’s BNSS Blueprint: Taming Police Powers and Redrawing the Lines of Arrest
The Sanhita Era Begins: Judicial Restraint on Executive Overreach The transition from the colonial-era Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) to the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) was billed by the legislature as a watershed moment for Indian crim...
The BNSS Pushback: How Constitutional Courts Are Reining in Police Powers Under the New Criminal Code
When the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) replaced the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), a collective shudder went through the Indian defense bar. The fears were palpable: expanded police custody durations, ambiguities in arrest protocols, ...
The Judiciary Draws a Line in the Sand: Why the Supreme Court’s Latest BNSS Rulings are a Lifeline for the Defense Bar
When the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) replaced the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), the defense bar held its collective breath. With expanded police custody provisions and new attachment powers, many feared the new code would become a ...
The BNSS Arrest Regime Solidifies: SC Mandates "Fresh Materials" for Arrest Post-Notice, Tightens Remand Rules
The End of the "Cooperate and Arrest" Trap? For the Indian defense bar, 2026 is proving to be the year where the dust finally settles on the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) . While many feared the new code would merely be old wine in ...
The Supreme Court Gives Teeth to the BNSS: Why Section 35 is Your New Weapon Against Arbitrary Arrests
When the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) replaced the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), the defense bar braced for a procedural winter. Critics feared expanded police powers and diluted civil liberties. However, the mid-2026 jurisprudence ...
Arrest as the "Exception": Decoding the Supreme Court's Hardline Stance on Section 35 BNSS
The Ghost of Arnesh Kumar Gets Statutory Teeth For decades, the Indian criminal justice system has functioned on a grim, unwritten premise: the police arrest first and investigate later. Even after the landmark Arnesh Kumar v. State of Bihar judgment...
The Honeymoon is Over: How the Supreme Court is Taming Police Overreach Under the BNSS and BNS
The Statute Changed, But Have the Police? The colonial era might be dead in the statute books as of July 2026, but its ghosts still haunt India's police stations. When the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS...
The Ghost of Arnesh Kumar Lives On: Supreme Court Tames Arbitrary Arrests Under Section 35 BNSS
The Return of the "Bail Not Jail" Doctrine Under the New Code If there was any lingering anxiety among the criminal defense bar that the transition from the CrPC to the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) would dilute the hard-fought protection...
Supreme Court Clips the ED’s Wings: Why BNSS Section 223 is the New Shield in PMLA Trials
The End of the Endless Investigation For years, defense counsel in India have battled a frustrating reality in white-collar trials: the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) files a prosecution complaint, a special court takes cognizance, but the investiga...
Notice over Arrest, and the PMLA Roadblock: How the Supreme Court is Weaponizing the BNSS for the Defense in 2026
When the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) replaced the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), the collective anxiety among the criminal bar was palpable. Critics warned of expanded police powers and extended remand periods. But as the Supreme Co...
The BNSS Settles In: Supreme Court Cements Arrest Safeguards as High Courts Untangle Cognizance Chaos
The CrPC Ghost in the BNSS Machine As we move deeper into 2026, the transition from the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) to the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) has moved past theoretical debates and squarely into the trenches of trial cour...
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 Lives On: Supreme Court Tames BNSS Arrest Powers
The Judiciary Steps In to Fix the BNSS Transition When the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) replaced the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), the collective anxiety of the Indian bar was palpable. Would the new code reset decades of hard-fough...
The Supreme Court Draws the Line: How Recent Rulings Are Saving the 'Arnesh Kumar' Legacy Under the BNSS
The BNSS Reality Check: Judicial Pushback on the Threat of a Police State The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) has officially moved from parliamentary debates into the daily gauntlet of India’s trial courts and appellate benches. When the ne...
Arnesh Kumar Lives On: Supreme Court Cements the 'Notice Over Arrest' Rule for 7-Year Offences Under BNSS
The CrPC is Dead, Long Live the CrPC As we navigate the operational realities of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) in 2026, a distinct judicial trend has emerged from the Constitutional Courts: the new criminal codes are not a clean slate...
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...
The BNSS Bail and Remand Shake-Up: Supreme Court Rescues Section 480(3) from Trial Court Paranoia
The Great BNSS Shakedown: Courts Grapple with the New Normal As we navigate the latter half of 2026, the transition from the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPC) to the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) has proven to be less of a sea...
Judicial Rebellion? Allahabad HC Declares Supreme Court's "Prabir Purkayastha" & "Pankaj Bansal" Judgments Per Incuriam in Habeas Corpus Row
The Hook: A High Court Draws a Line in the Sand Against the Supreme Court If you have been practicing criminal law over the last two years, you know that the Supreme Court’s rulings in Pankaj Bansal and Prabir Purkayastha have been the golden tickets...
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