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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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