Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita

Amnesty International criticizes West Bengal's new bill imposing the death penalty for rape resulting in death or a vegetative state. Chair Aakar Patel calls for systemic reform, citing a lack of evidence that capital punishment deters violence against women.

Many a colonial-era law had been hanging around like an albatross around the neck of the Indian legal fraternity even 75 years after Independence.Now,...