Amit Jaiswal

The Section, which obliges a guilty person to report his guilt to the police or magistrate or else be liable for double the punishment, is a juridical masterstroke and offers a simple solution to tackle crimes

The 11 persons convicted of multiple murders and gangrape of a pregnant Bilkis Bano in 2002 during the Gujarat riots walked free from Godhra subjail on August 15, 2022. They brutally killed her three-year-old daughter by smashing her head on the ground and six other persons on March 3, 2002. The story thereafter is one of great struggle to bring the guilty to book.  

The judgment will go a long way to serve as a guiding principle to all courts for imposition of commensurate sentence keeping in view the nature of crime and competing interests of the accused and the victim  

Life throws different challenges at every step. And the Covid-19 pandemic has thrown its own set of challenges for advocates. For the last one and half years, advocates throughout India are grappling with the restricted functioning of courts. They have to answer a flurry of questions emanating from their infuriated clients on a daily basis.