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ARTICLE · 14 FEBRUARY 2020

Law & Rights Before Arrest & After Arrest In India

These offences might include assault, kidnapping, cheating, forgery accusations and so on.

IndiaCriminal Law

Article by Vijay Pal Dalmia, Advocate, Supreme Court of India and Delhi High Court, Partner & Head of Intellectual Property Laws Division, Vaish Associates Advocates, India

Life and liberty is a sacred freedom of our sanctified Constitution under Article 21, but it has been hampered by the exploitation, done by the police, of the already vast powers given to them by the Code of Criminal Procedure (Cr.P.C) enacted by the Parliament in 1973. A widely discussed and contentious issue has been the constant abuse of personal liberty and constitutional rights by the government through their own retained rights for the apparent 'protection of the public'. Media and court records display instances of such abuse by the police force; the same force that has been tasked as the keepers of our peace and protectors against the evil.

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