Criminal Wrongs and Constitutional Rights: A View from India

Publication Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

2013

Abstract

This essay offers an overview of how ideas of constitutionalism, rule of law and fundamental rights contributed to the development of criminal law in India. Various courts, and the Supreme Court in particular, have summoned these broad constitutional concepts to understand, interpret and develop criminal law doctrines. But they are also drawing on these concepts to increasingly address “structural” issues of the criminal justice system - the very apparatus responsible for implementing the doctrines.

Discipline

Asian Studies | Constitutional Law | Criminal Law

Publication

Singapore Academy of Law Journal

Volume

25

Issue

SI

First Page

714

Last Page

735

ISSN

0218-2009

Publisher

Singapore Academy of Law

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