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ONGOING

PROJECTS

EXPLORING CRITICAL CRIMINAL PROCEDURAL

LAW (2017 ONWARDS)

This research aims to develop the notions of critical criminal law. The
conventional expositions in criminal law in India do not offer causal, critical,

functional and radical insights into the manner in which the law is conceived,
designed, applied and interpreted. Therefore, this study attempts to resolve the
many complex issues which emerge from the interaction of criminal law with its

stakeholders in India. A plain implementation and interpretation cannot answer
these issues. This study also intends to identify and document the critical
perspectives which are relevant to criminal procedural law by examining policy

critique by thinkers and activists, critique by judges in their judgements and
critique by jurists about the institutions of criminal law. In this undertaking, the
objective is to develop normative, institutional and social critiques of criminal

procedural law. A set of propositions leading to the development of a robust
theory of criminal law will be prepared by collating and combining the systematic
analysis of all these categories.

Prof. G. S. Bajpai is the Project Supervisor for this study.
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