1. The plea for Special Investigative Team into the #ElectoralBondScam .

Short Thread. 👇

Magistrates courts are the first gatekeeper of the right to life and personal liberty, yet there is very little known about their functioning.

Join Project 39A, National Law University, Delhi on 3 May for the launch of our report on a study of the Magistrates courts in Delhi by Jinee Lokaneeta & Zeba Sikora

📢 Hiring Call!
We are #hiring a Consultant (Communications) to lead communications strategy on Project 39A's criminal justice work.

🎓Qualifications: Bachelors in marketing/communications/journalism/law etc.
📅Deadline: 30.04.24
📍Location: Delhi

Apply: bit.ly/3xEm6S0

Our Dir. (Mental Health & Criminal Justice | Death Penalty Mitigation), Maitreyi Misra will deliver a talk at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi (G3, KP Campus) tomorrow at 2 PM. She will discuss issues of labels of 'criminal' & 'accused' & share lessons learnt from her work on death penalty mitigation.

Anokhilal has been exonerated after being wrongly convicted & sentenced to death for the same offence twice, and spending 11 years in prison.

How should we begin to identify and address the factors that lead to wrongful convictions, like Anokhi’s?

After 3 trials & being sentenced to death twice in the same case, Anokhilal was  #acquitted this week by the #trial court in Khandwa, MP. The court reversed its finding of guilt after discovering exculpatory #evidence & serious errors in the  #forensic   #DNA evidence.

#deathpenalty

Three news organisations and several independent journalists have come together to sift through the electoral bond data.

Here's a #thread of some of the stories we have done as part of #ProjectElectoralBond

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Thrilled to collaborate with the Maharashtra Institute of #MentalHealth Maharashtra Institute of Mental Health, Pune for a #workshop to discuss issues of fitness to stand trial, insanity defence & sentencing!

The resource persons are Maitreyi Misra, Saul Lehrfreund, Dr. Richard Latham, Dr. IS Netto and Dr. Karde.

Death by a firing squad involves being shot at while tied up and blindfolded. But how 'instant' or painless is such a death?

Read more in Part 4 of our series  #FacingtheEnd  and stay tuned for the final part.

#deathpenalty #capitalpunishment #execution

Pleased to see our comment in The Lancet Psychiatry on the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) wpanet.org position statement on Death Penalty
Neeraj Gill Maitreyi Misra #NamrataSinha #AfzalJaved Griffith University Project 39A, National Law University, Delhi Centre for Mental Health Law & Policy, ILS, Pune
Human Rights Watch UN Human Rights

No, this is not a satirical post. This is as real as it can get!

1. The current term of #LokSabha hasn't had a Deputy Speaker yet. This is unprecedented. It violates Article 93 of the #ConstitutionOfIndia & Govt is about to get away with it without any consequences.

2. The

#Ayodhya | Once There Was A Mosque: 1528-2024

thewire.in/ayodhyatimeline

A timeline of events from the construction of the Babri Masjid in 1528 upon the instructions of Mughal emperor Babur, till the consecration ceremony of the Ram temple on January 22, 2024.

We are pleased to share that our Dir. (Forensics | Death Penalty Litigation) Shreya Rastogi was longlisted for the India Science Book Fellowship by Foundation for Advancing Science and Technology. The fellowship is aimed at fostering the writing of popular non-fiction #science books by Indian authors.

#CaravanBaatcheet | “... this distinction between police custody and judicial custody has been removed. ...'

Watch Shreya Rastogi discuss the three new criminal laws enacted in India and their impact, with V!shnu:

▶️youtu.be/4WIijK1T3vg

On 6 Dec, our Dir. (Forensics) Shreya Rastogi held a training session on #digitalforensics for DHCLSC empaneled lawyers. She explored principles of digital forensic investigations focusing on #data extraction from #mobile & computer devices, & #law on digital forensic evidence.

'While justice has been done in this case, difficult questions about state remission policies remain.'

Our Director (Sentencing) Neetika Vishwanath on the SC decision in the #BilkisBanoCase for the The Hindu today👇

P39A's Pratiksha Basarkar spoke to The Quint to decode impact of new #CriminalLaws on civil liberties. She explains how the laws retrench colonial logic, with longer #police custody & over-broad provisions aggravating State control.

Read: tinyurl.com/562m4xu8

📽️ Watch our Exec. Dir. Anup Surendranath break down why the new #CriminalLaws ' promise of decolonisation rings hollow, & how they instead strengthen State control through vague provisions & wider police powers.

Interviewed by Manu Sebastian for Live Law: tinyurl.com/26naxud5

How much do the recently passed #criminallaws 'reform' the system? P39A's Zeba Sikora highlights the implications of the changes & their failure to address institutional challenges, for the The Times Of India podcast.

Listen: tinyurl.com/4madnsbb

Our colleagues Shreya Rastogi & C.P. Shruthi were invited by the Malaysian Bar Council & Reprieve for a 2 day workshop on 'Resentencing in Capital cases'. Their sessions covered a range of issues incl death penalty sentencing & mitigating cases involving women and the elderly.