Criminal Justice System

The Criminal Justice System in India is a several decades-old system, based on the system established by the British in India during the Raj.

The concept of capital punishment is a form and part of the “Punitive or Retributive Theory of Crime

It was Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a Russian novelist and philosopher, who on arrest asked the question: “Me? What for?” This has been retold in the opening page of his chronicle, The Gulag Archipelago. Solzhenitsyn suffered eight years’ hard labour in a Soviet prison during the Stalinist era

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