The Refurbished Procedure: A Sneak into the Future
Keywords:
Legislature, Executive and Judiciary, Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, justice, criminal law jurisprudenceAbstract
The aim of this research paper is to discuss the antecedents and descendants of the evolution of criminal procedure in India, where we understand the major changes brought in by the Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. The authors have also undertaken a study on how deliberations, discussions, successive judgments, and reports have carefully impregnated life into a document that
aims to keep in motion, the wheels of justice. A conscientious reading of all accessed documents has also put forth the idea that the essence of rehabilitation has been kept in mind. Careful introspection, however, also brings to the fore, some very retributive changes, like the clause on handcuffing, that had been severely restrained earlier in multiple Supreme Court judgments. This paper, therefore, puts forward the writer’s view of how the legislature, executive, and judiciary have joined hands to meticulously prepare the background for the implementation of criminal law jurisprudence in India.
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