Commentaries by Shreya Iyer and Sanchit Khandelwal

Fair Disclosure: An Antidote to Wrongful Prosecution in Indian Criminal Legal System

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Fair Disclosure: An Antidote to Wrongful Prosecution in Indian Criminal Legal System

Shreya Iyer and Sanchit Khandelwal

June 26, 2020 02:41:54 pm

Recently, public interest litigation (PIL), Yash Giri v. Union of India, was filed in the Supreme Court of India to formulate a law to compensate the victims of wrongful incarceration. Instances of wrongful prosecution are not a rarity in the Indian criminal legal system. The arena of wrongful prosecution due to absence of fair disclosure [...]

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