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• Introduction
• The legal history of reservation for SC/STs, OBCs
• Reservation for EWS and upper-castes in India : the legislative and executive developments
• The political context and creamy layer
• The judicial treatment
• Substantive equality and affirmative action
• Demarcating protected groups
• Socio-economic disadvantages in discrimination
• Conclusion.

"This book examines the controversial 103rd Constitutional Amendment to the Indian Constitution that introduced an income and asset ownership-based new constitutional standard for determining backwardness marking a significant shift in the government's social and public policy. It also analyses state level policies towards backwardness recognition of upper-caste dominant groups through case studies of Maharashtra, Haryana, and Gujarat. It provides an analytical and descriptive account of the proliferation of reservation policy in India and critiques these interventions to assess their implication on constitutional jurisprudence. Further, it assesses the theoretical and empirical challenges such developments pose to the principle of substantive equality and scope of affirmative action policies in Indian constitutional law and general discrimination law theory. The monograph shows how opening up of reservations for dominant upper-caste groups and general category will have implications for the constitutional commitment to addressing deeply entrenched marginalisation emanating from the traditional social hierarchy and the understanding of substantive equality in Indian Constitutional law. Further, it highlights key contradictions, incoherence, and internal tension in the design of the reservations for Economically Weaker Sections Critical, comprehensive, and cogently argued, this book will contribute and shape ongoing constitutional policy and judicial debates. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of law, Indian politics, affirmative action, social policy, and public policy"-- Provided by publisher.

• Regulation and competition
• Economics of competition and markets
• Emergent markets
• Economics of horizontal agreements and vertical agreements
• Dynamics of competition and antitrust
• Economic analysis of combinations : mergers, amalgamations and acquisitions
• Interface between competition commission of india and sectoral regulators
• Conclusions: Challenges for competition policy and law

"This book is a primer on economics of competition law by a Commissioner based on cases of the Competition Commission of India (CCI). It presents economic theories in lucid ways while providing an in depth economic analysis of the cases dealt by CCI and in the process, it blends the diversity of responses by including the orders upheld by majority and minority. In essence. It is a unique work that addresses the gap between competition law and economics. Dr Geeta Gouri has served as a Commissioner (Member), Competition Commission of India (2009-2014) and earlier as Director (Tariffs), Andhra Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (1999-2009), India. She has also taught at institutions which included Jawaharlal Nehru Institute for Development Banking, Hyderabad; Institute of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad, and Lady Shri Ram College for Women (Delhi University), New Delhi. She has authored Pricing for Welfare: Petroleum Products in India (1988), edited Privatisation and Public Enterprises: The Asia-Pacific Experience (1991), co-edited Efficiency through Competition in Public Utilities - Policies for Restructuring (1993), Towards Equity: New Economic Policy and Equity (1995)"-- Provided by publisher

• Legal aid system in India
• Legal aid practices across the globe
• The state of access to justice for legal aid beneficiaries
• Women in legal aid and access to justice
• Regulators in the legal aid services
• Judges' and judicial officers'
• Legal aid counsels
• Assessment of the competency and commitment of the LACs

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the functioning and challenges of the legal aid system in India. The legal aid system was set up to promote the interests of the economically weaker sections of society that did not have equitable access to judicial systems. However, the system has been largely unsuccessful in delivering justice. Drawing on empirical data from 18 states and 36 districts in India, the book highlights the institutional setbacks that plague the legal aid system and urges us to take cognizance of the hindrances faced by the beneficiaries in availing of these services. It acknowledges the gaps that exist in the governance of the legal aid system in India at the grassroots level and suggests approaches and ways to address these roadblocks to deliver free, swift, and economical access to justice to the poor legal aid beneficiaries. An important critical study of the commitment and competence of legal aid counsels in India, this volume will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of law, Indian law, constitutional law, political science, comparative law, law and gender, and social work.
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• Introduction
• Part 1. Family rights and relation laws for all communities
• Part 2. Personal laws of four communities relating to family rights and relations
• Part 3. Personal law of Muslim communities relating to family rights and relations
• Part 4. Personal laws of other communities relating to family rights and relations
• Part 5. Property and succession laws for all communities
• Part 6. Personal laws of four communities relating to property and succession
• Part 7. Personal law of Muslim communities relating to property and succession
• Part 8. Personal laws of Christians and other communities relating to property and succession

"Prof. Tahir Mahmood has written a comprehensive work on Family Law as applicable in India. Family law in India is a complex branch of the nation’s legal system, spread over two distinct categories of laws ? first, general laws applicable to all citizens irrespective of their religion, and the other comprising personal laws meant for particular religious communities or groups of communities. The book has been arranged in eight parts; first four Parts explain the concepts and contents of family law in general and laws relating to property and succession meant for all communities have been explained in last four Parts. It provides detailed discussion on all relevant issues such as marriage and divorce, maintenance, guardianship and child custody, adoption, property, inheritance, wills as well as succession. Prominent Supreme Court as well as High Court rulings have been referred on the matters they cover"-- Provided by publisher

• Right to health : a human right perspective / Dr. Liji Samuel
• Right to health : human right, constitutional right and international perspective / Dr. Bhavana Sharma
• Right to health and emergency health care / Samuel Molsom
• Human rights perspectives of clinical trials in India : a critical study / Sajal Sharma
• Consent : informed consent and requirements of consent / Dr. Nirmala Kumari K.
• Medical negligence / Dr. Suneet Kashyap
• Medical jurisprudence : an appraisal on rights to health in India for ethical perspective / C. E. Pratap
• Importance of medical jurisprudence in criminal trials in India : a medico-legal study / Dr. Meena Ketan Sahu
• Medico-legal aspects of injury or wound : an appraisal / Dr. Caesar Roy
• Need for reforms in health insurance in India, with special reference to IRDAI (health insurance) regulations, 2016 / Shreya Mishra
• Victim's right to health under state victim compensation schemes in India / Dr. Sukdeo Ingale
• Surrogacy and its regulation : an overview of legislative and judicial responses in India / Dr. Aneesh V. Pillai
• Abortion in India : issues & concerns / Mrs. Soumya James
• Arguing for legalization of euthanasia : emerging issues and challenges / Dr. Aparna Singh
• Mental Health Care Act, 2017 : decriminalizes suicide and protecting the inalienable rights of mentally ill persons / Diksha Dubey
• Surrogacy in India / Anjali Dixit
• Environmental pollution and bio-medical wastage in India : issues and concerns / Dr. Deepom Baruah
• Abortion and Indian law / Sridip S. Nambiar
• The transplantation of human organs and tissues : law and policy in India / Dr. Radheshyam Prasad

"The relationship between health and law in not new but the relation is multifaceted. Law and health are both subjects with an inherent dynamism. Health and law as a curricular subject of law is a recent addition and is taught in law colleges under many universities. This edited book tries to focus on the intersection between law and health. It is divided into five extensive sections: Concept of Health; Medical Profession, Patient and the Law; Organization of Public Health Care and Medical Jurisprudence; Insurance and Victim Compensation; and Health Legislative Perspective. The book will be helpful to prepare a foundation for understanding and analysis of advanced knowledge in the field of health and its relationship with law. This book will also be helpful for the teachers, students, researchers, lawyers, judges, law firms, medical professionals, academics, libraries, law universities and anyone interested in the subject"“-- Provided by publisher

• An Overview
• An Early Examination of the RBI-12 Cases Under the IBC
• Real Estate Insolvencies and the Status of Home Buyers
• Performance of Company Law Tribunals in India --A Maximalist Approach to Data Under IBC
• Prepacks Under the IBC: A Tussle Between Speed and Fair Process
• The Way Forward for Personal Insolvency --Value Destruction and Wealth Transfer Under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016

"This book is about the establishment of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, in 2016, one of the most important new developments in Indian commercial law. The law has major implications for firms, their creditors, and a variety of the professional services that feed into the decisions of borrowers and lenders including lawyers, accountants and valuers. A new profession of insolvency professionals has come to exist owing to the law. There are several questions about bankruptcy reform in the mind of researchers, policy makers and practitioners. How has the reform progressed? How has it reshaped the incentives of firms? What are the difficulties faced? What are the optimal paths for borrowers and lenders and their advisors under the rubric of the law? How should laws and institutions be modified? The book has a unique set of chapters, by key people who have shaped the field which offer novel insights into these questions. The book has been edited by key people who have worked on bankruptcy reform since 2010. Dr. Sahoo has been the chairperson of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India since the establishment of this regulatory agency. Dr. Thomas was a member of the Bankruptcy Law Reforms Committee which drafted the IBC, and led the internal team of the BLRC which drafted the law. The book is an authentic and credible analysis of the happenings in the Indian insolvency and bankruptcy ecosystem from the start, with interest areas for international and domestic, economics/finance and law, researcher and practitioner communities"-- Provided by publisher

• Research design
• Philosophy of law
• Legal doctrine
• Descriptive legal research
• Quamtitative legal research
• Qualitative legal research

• Law and space and place : an introduction
• Frontiers of law
• Games of jurisdictions
• Colonial governance and customary authority
• "Tribes and trees" and "economical geology" : narrating space and people
• Narratives of continuity
• Place-making
• Conclusion.

"The book is a study of the travels of colonial law into the North-East frontier of the British Empire in India. Focusing on the nineteenth century, it examines the relationship of law and space, and indigenous place-making. Inhabitants of the frontier hills examined in this book were not defined as British subjects, yet they were incorporated within the colonial legal framework. The work examines the nature of this legal limbo that produced both the hills and their inhabitants as interruptions but equally as integral to the imperial project. Through a study of place-making by indigenous inhabitants of the frontier, it further demonstrates the heterogeneous narratives of self and belonging found in sites of orality and kinship that shape the hills in the present day"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• Conceptualizing cartels
• Characterizing Indian cartels
• Investigation of investigative procedures of CCI
• Sanctioning cartels
• Organization design and anti-cartel enforcement
• Conclusion

"This book presents a comprehensive assessment of anti-cartel enforcement and investigative procedures in India. It makes the case for enhanced sanctions for Cartel Conduct in India. Cartels are considered as the most pernicious violation of competition law, referred to as 'cancer to the free market economy'. While competition laws in most jurisdictions prescribe strict sanctions against cartels, Indian Competition Law provides only for civil penalties, with an upper ceiling for proven cartel conduct. This volume assesses the effectiveness of anti-cartel enforcement of the Competition Commission of India (CCI). It explores investigative procedures of the CCI through multiple qualitative and quantitative indicators and the extent to which enforcement of anti-cartel laws in India has led to cartel deterrence. Further, it also examines the priorities and processes of the CCI in terms of anti-cartel enforcement, their sanctioning mechanism and their dependency of computation of penalty on varied factors. Featuring detailed case law studies and engaging data, this book will be an essential read for students and researchers of law and legal studies, competition law, corporate law, intellectual property law, and business law"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction
• Censorship of publications in Colonial India : the genesis of a legal idea
• Freedom of expression and religious vilifications : decoding the constitutional and legal definition of 'limits'
• Preventing religious offense : law, courts and freedom of expression
• Law and legal process as hurdles
• Non-state actors as censor : the legal position
• Conclusion.

"This book analyses the role of laws and judiciary in the process of censorship in India. It examines the rationales and observations produced by the judiciary when demands for censorship are directed against publications that allegedly offend religious sentiments. Focusing on a micro level analysis of censorship of publications, it presents a hard case to understand the limitations of freedom of expression and the role played by judiciary in defining its boundaries. The volume traces the evolution of laws governing freedom of expression since colonial period and the context in which these laws were amended after independence. It also explicates how the legal process-the structural and functional aspects of working of judiciary-affects the fate of freedom of expression in India. Employing comparative legal analysis, it tries to understand and situate the Indian case within the larger discourse of censorship and freedom of expression around the world, thereby marking its similarities and differences. In unravelling the politics of censorship, the author also examines the interaction among different stakeholders like government, non-state actors and the judiciary. A tract for our times, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of law, especially constitutional law and fundamental rights, politics, especially political theory and Indian politics, modern India, and South Asian studies"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: Secularizing blasphemy
• The merry prophet. Crisis of the public: The Rajpal Affair and its bodies ; Secularism, high and low: making the blasphemy bill
• Blasphemy's empire. Codifying blasphemy: religious feelings between colony and metropole ; Macaulay unmanned, or, Tom governs his feelings ; Libeling religion: secularism and the intimacy of insult
• Polemics as ethics. Printing pain, ruling sentiment: a brief history of Arya insult ; The Arya penal code: law and the practice of documentary religion ; The swami and the prophet: slandering lives, conducting character
• Conclusion: a feeling for "religion"

• Invoking exception and defining enemies : extraordinary legislation and the Colonial War on terror in early-twentieth-century India
• Controlling 'mobs' and maintaining public order in the United Provinces, 1930-1940
• Bureaucratic encounters and the question of justice in India : a Kafkaesque Tale of official discretion, errors and oversights
• Lineages of a postcolonial state : the disposition of state-sponsored vigilantism in the United Provinces, 1948
• Mukhiyas and Chowkidars : understanding the 'new' sense of public order in the United Provinces, 1947-1955

"This book studies issues of public order in late colonial and early postcolonial India. It identifies various governmental practices, such as curfews, bans and police action, that thrive on extraordinary legislation to maintain public order. The colonial regime often deployed extraordinary legislation to curtail the liberties of individuals and groups by citing potential harm to public order. Through public order, a spectacle of sovereign power and politics of contestation between the citizens and law enforcement emerges. The book will contribute to existing discussions about sovereignty and legitimacy of state power by providing a representative sample of concrete instances such as inter- and intra-community riots, labour riots, labour strikes and nationalist agitation. It will also enable a comparative approach and illustrate processes of the evolution of state formation and citizenship in South Asia"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction
• Proceedings of the Trial, 1858
• Supplement to the proceedings of the Trial of Muhammad Bahadur Shah, ex-king of Delhi

"This volume analyses the Trial of Bahadur Shah, a watershed moment in 19th century colonial history of India. The Trial of Bahadur Shah raises the contentious issue of sovereignty - trial of the Emperor Bahadur Shah, de jure power by de facto claimant to power, the English East India Company. There has been a lot of confusion and controversy over the Trial, ever since the proceedings began - its main architects could not define if it really was a juristic trial, a court of inquiry, a court-martial or a general inquiry? This book sheds light on this event through original unprinted manuscript of the Trial at end of the uprising of the 1857. It critically investigates the Trial, mainly its architecture, grammar, functioning and findings from historical, political and juridical perspectives to determine, as far as possible, the actual position of Emperor Bahadur Shah, his strengths and his weaknesses. Further, it examines the Rebellion of 1857, particularly in Delhi, and Bahadur Shah's role therein. A key reading on justice in colonial history, this volume will be of interest to researchers and scholars of colonial and imperial history, modern history, political theory, and South Asia studies. It will also of great interest to general readers interested in learning about the colonisation of India by the British and its commercial arm East India Company"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction
• Setting the stage : the legal construction of British paramountcy
• Jousting over jurisdiction : sovereignty debates in the aftermath of the 1857 Rebellion
• The controversy over divisible sovereignty : The Princes and the Indian States committee
• Political negotiations : The Princes in the Federation debates
• Building the Nation : the princely states in the age of decolonization
• Epilogue.

"What constitutes a sovereign state in the international legal sphere? This question has been central to international law for centuries. Sovereignty, International Law, and the Princely States of Colonial South Asia provides a compelling exploration of the history of sovereignty through an analysis of the jurisdictional politics involving a specific set of historical legal entities. Governed by local rulers, the princely states of colonial South Asia were subject to British paramountcy whilst remaining legally distinct from directly ruled British India. Their legal status and the extent of their rights remained the subject of feverish debates through the entirety of British colonial rule. This book traces the ways in which the language of sovereignty shaped the discourse surrounding the legal status of the princely states to illustrate how the doctrine of sovereignty came to structure political imagination in colonial South Asia and the framework of the modern Indian state. Opening with a survey of the place of the princely states in the colonial structures of South Asia, Sovereignty, International Law, and the Princely States of Colonial South Asia goes on to illustrate how international lawyers, British politicians, colonial officials, rulers and bureaucrats of princely states, and anti-colonial nationalists in British India used definitions of sovereignty to construct political orders in line with their interests and aspirations. By invoking the vernacular of sovereignty in contrasting ways to support their differing visions of imperial and world order, these actors also attempted to reconfigure the boundaries among the spheres of the national, the imperial, and the international. Throughout the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries, debates and disputes over the princely states continually defined and redefined the concept of sovereignty and international legitimacy in South Asia. Using rich material from the colonial archives, Sovereignty, International Law, and the Princely States of Colonial South Asia conveys an understanding of the history of sovereignty and the construction of the modern Indian nation-state that is still relevant today. A riveting read, this book will be of considerable interest and importance to scholars of international law and South Asia, legal historians, and political scientists"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• Custodial intimacy : law and the police in two parts
• Recycled legality : doing things with legal language
• Law and the vulnerable state
• Hypertext : files and the fabrication of the world
• Certification and the fabrication of truths
• Petition writing : desire, ethics, mourning
• Conclusion: An acquittal?

"In an ethnography of terrorism trials in Delhi, the author shows how those charged with terror engage with legal technicalities. The book shows how the ordinary procedures that lie at the heart of the trial are the mode through which human expressiveness and vulnerability emerge in the face of the law"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction
• Widow remarriage and Niyoga
• Widows' Rights of Inheritance
• Widow-asceticism
• Sati.

"This chapter deals with two conceptually distinct, yet related legal issues concerning widows. The first of these is widow remarriage; the second is niyoga, which is the Sanskrit term for the specific version of levirate practiced in classical India. The reason that these two issues jointly comprise the focus of a single chapter of this book is that, despite the effort of the Hindu legal tradition to dissociate them, they are closely related. The reason that these two issues comprise the focus of the first chapter is that niyoga in particular is the first widow-related issue to become the subject of debate within Dharmaśāstra and, thus, the first such issue where one can see a major shift in Brahmanical opinion over time, specifically a shift from general acceptance to universal rejection. By contrast, the Dharmaśāstra tradition widely opposed the practice of widow remarriage from its inception and support for widow remarriage always constituted a minority position"-- Provided by publisher.

• Foreword by Justice B.N. Srikrishna
• 1. Introduction by Leila Choukroune and Rahul Donde
• 2. India International Investment Treaty Law and Policy in Perspective
• 3. Critical Approaches to India's International Commercial Arbitration.
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This edited collection on international commercial and investment disputes in, and with, India examines past and present landmark legislative and regulatory reforms initiated by the Indian government, including the 2015 new Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) model, the 2015 amendments to the 1996 Arbitration Act and the 2013 amendments to Section 135 of the Companies Act on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), as well as the most recent amendments to the same. The book also includes recent developments in the dispute resolution arena, regional, and international negotiations involving India, the legal profession's response to these developments, and civil society's comments. In addition, it addresses contemporary problems of key importance and at the centre of today's discussions, from the legitimacy and relevance of Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) to the denunciation of Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs), and the role arbitration should play in emerging economies now leaders in world trade. In creating bridges between commercial and investment arbitration, it also renews the conceptual approach to these too often artificially isolated fields of law. The volume provides an accurate and updated account of the many fascinating conceptual and practical evolutions, which already impact the world of international dispute resolution far beyond the borders of India. This unique and exhaustive study will be of great appeal to a vast range of readers from practitioners to academia.
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• Introduction: Environmental justice in India : context, issues and framework / Kirit Patel, Alan P. Diduck and Aruna Kumar Malik
• Injustice and justice : the double movement of small hydro development in Himachal Pradesh / J. Mark Baker
• The visible fault line of development : the right of consent of Adivasi communities and the political economy of mining / Arpitha Kodiveri
• Realizing sustainable development and water justice through procedural justice / Gayathri D. Naik
• The National Green Tribunal's response to the cause of tribals and fisherfolk / Armin Rosencranz, Avinash Mathews, Sangram Sinh Parab, Shubham Janghu and Suhaas Putta
• Being appraised by experts : a review of the role of Expert Appraisal Committees in the environmental clearance process and judicial intervention / Himanshu Pabreja and Neelotpalam Tiwari
• Small hydro and environmental justice : lessons from the Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh / Alan P. Diduck, Richard Johnson, Esther Edwards, A. John Sinclair, James Gardner and Kirit Patel
• A case study of impact assessment, litigation and a social movement against a limestone mine in Gujarat / Ariane Dilay
• Values matter : gender-based exclusion from environmental impact assessments in Mahuva, Gujarat / Bryce Gallant
• Holding international finance institutions accountable for environmental injustice : a case study of the Tata Mundra power plant in Gujarat / Avery Letkemann, Carinne Bétournay, Bharat Patel, Kirit Patel and Alan P. Diduck
• Environmental justice and participation for communities in southern India : sand mining in Udupi District, Karnataka / Cassandra Szabo and Mahabaleshwar Hegde
• Karwar fisherfolk's quest for environmental justice : examining the roles of impact assessment, environmental regulatory agencies and legal institutions / Mahabaleshwar Hegde, Kirit Patel, Alan P. Diduck and Debayan Gupta
• Advancing environmental justice : lessons from the Thoothukudi Sterlite Copper case / Aruna Kumar Malik, Alan P. Diduck and Kirit Patel
• Judicial environmentalism : the thorny case of Prosopis juliflora / R. Seenivasan
• Conclusion: Lessons for policy and institutional reform / Alan P. Diduck, Kirit Patel and Aruna Kumar Malik

This interdisciplinary collection examines social equity and environmental justice in India. It assesses the effectiveness of environmental policies and institutions in rendering justice for marginalized communities while ensuring protection of the environment. It also analyses the influence of the neoliberal state and its political economies on the development and outcomes of these policies and institutions. The book provides a unique perspective on environmental justice because of its consistent emphasis on social justice, rather than the prevailing predominant analyses from legal or environmental perspectives. It explores the themes of effectiveness and equity as they pertain to public policy instruments, such as environmental impact assessment, environmental licensing and enforcement, public hearings, and environmental activism strategies. The four interlinked dimensions of environmental justice, namely recognitional justice, procedural justice, distributive justice, and restorative justice, provide the core of the book's conceptual framework. The contributions draw on ideas and methods from development studies, environmental geography, environmental law and policy, natural resource management, public administration, and political economy The book concludes by considering planning, policy and institutional reforms and community-based initiatives that are needed to promote and protect environmental justice in India. Offering an important reference for researchers and scholars, this book will appeal to those in law, geography, environmental studies, natural resource management, development studies, sociology, and political science. It will also be of interest to community-based researchers, environmentalists and other civil society activists, natural resource managers, and policy makers.
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• Arrest and detention : the umbrella of constitutional protection / Shruti Bedi
• Arrest : necessity and justification / Nitish Nawsagaray
• Arrest by police : power, procedure, and impact on fundamental rights / Amiya Kumar Samanta
• Anatomy of preventive detention laws in India : a historical and critical perspective / Yogesh Pratap Singh
• Preventive detentions in India : constitutional 'sanctions' and 'safeguards' / P. Puneeth
• Role of remand proceedings : a step away from the mechanical approach / R. S. Cheema and Tarannum Cheema
• Apprehension and bail of children in conflict with law : procedure and practice / Kumar Askand Pandey
• Inter-state arrest : safeguards and remedies / Kavita Singh
• Arrest and seizure under narcotics drugs law / Nirmal Kanti Chakrabarti and Surja Kanta Baladhikari
• Arrest and detention under Armed Forces Act : a test case of human rights violation / Bhabani Sonowal
• Arrest, detention, and human rights : international standards / Dipa Dube
• Constitutional rights on arrest and detention : a Canadian perspective / Sébastien Lafrance
• Pretrial hearing in arrest and detention : the Indonesian experience / Amira Paripurna
• Arrest and torture : law and its implementation in Nepal / Balram Prasad Raut
• The footprints of liberty / Justice Kamaljit Singh Garewal
• Arrest by police : judicial mandate / R. K. Bag
• Arrest and detention : a proposal for reforms / Namrta Rastogi and Anurag Deep.

Human rights enshrined in the Constitution of India protect Indian citizens against misuse of powers by the State and its functionaries. However, detainee rights are often neglected in custody. Arrest and Detention in India: Law, Procedure and Practice critically examines arrest and detention laws in India, focusing on constitutional guarantees and criminal jurisprudence. The book studies legislations that have invited much criticism from human rights activists, such as the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), Armed Forced (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) and Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS). It explores topical areas such as inter-state arrests, juvenile crime, remand and detainee rights. This book evaluates the controversial powers of arrest and detention, arguing for stricter regulation in terms of the international, constitutional and human rights mandates. The book examines public safety and whether it can be implemented through legal standards that compromise personal liberty. .
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