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Supreme Court’s Caseload During COVID-19
An empirical analysis of the cases prioritised by the SC during the lockdown. The paper gives an overview of the ‘urgent litigation landscape’ of the SC through a comparative... -
Background of Indian Supreme Court Judges
This dataset contains information on the regional and professional background of the Indian Supreme Court judges along with their gender and intended date of retirement. It also... -
Ranking the High Courts in compliance with the RTI Act
After undertaking an extensive analysis on various parameters, the report ranks all the High Courts on their compliance with the RTI Act by devising four indices – Legality... -
Who is in Justice: Caste, Religion and Gender in the Courts of Bihar over a D...
This paper uses a novel dataset of more than one million cases filed at the Patna high court between 2009 and 2019 together with a variety of supplementary data to analyze the... -
India Justice Report - 2020
The second edition of the India Justice Report (IJR) is all about comparisons and tracking the rise and falls in each state’s structural and financial capacity to deliver... -
India Justice Report - 2019
India Justice Report ranks individual Indian states in relation to their capacity to deliver access to justice. The Tata Trusts brought together a group of sectoral experts —... -
Characterising land and property-related litigation at the Delhi High Court
The paper utilises case-level data from the Delhi High Court to establish how immovable property-related litigation is responsible for a major fraction of the Indian Courts’... -
Correctional Facilities in Assam - 2018
The prisons in the country and more particularly, Assam, are in an especially vulnerable position in the fight against COVID 19. It is true that Assam’s correctional homes or... -
Status Report on the implementation of three legal aid schemes in Rajasthan
Part 1 of the report evaluated data between 2012 and 2014, and highlights the gaps between the mandate and reality. Rajasthan was compliant with only 23% of the provisions in... -
SATARC: A Household Survey in Four Major Indian Cities
The official records on crime and response by the police are hugely insufficient in gauging the scale of the problem due to widespread under-reporting, among other deficiencies.... -
State of Policing and Law & Order in Delhi and Mumbai, 2021
The study is based on the “Crime in India” data for a five-year period from 2016-2020 released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), and RTI data accessed by the... -
IPF Smart Policing Survey - 2021
The IPF Citizen Satisfaction Survey on SMART Policing, 2021, is an effort by Indian Police Foundation (IPF) to gauge public perceptions about the quality of policing in India... -
CHRI - Analysis of NCRB's Prison Statistics India
Since 2015, CHRI analyses NCRB’s annual report - Prison Statistics India to come up with trends, major findings and a comparative commentary on certain indicators to present the... -
Jobs for Justice(s) - Corruption in the Supreme Court of India
The Indian judiciary bats for judicial independence. Wary of executive interference, judges ferociously protect their institutional turf. But does India’s judicial system suffer... -
A quantitative analysis of the Indian Supreme Courts Workload
This article analyzes the Indian Supreme Court’s docket in detail from 1993 to 2011. It also draws on available data to describe more broadly the workings of the Court... -
Section 66A and Other Legal Zombies
We find that an unconstitutional provision, Section 66-A of the Information Technology Act 2000, continues to be used by police departments across India in prosecutions. This... -
Constitution Benches of the Supreme Court of India (2011-21)
This dataset contains information on the Constitution Bench judgements passed by the Supreme Court of India, between 2011 and 2021. It seeks to capture the following... -
Implementation of the POCSO Act - Study of Cases of Special Courts in Delhi &...
On 14 November 2012, Government of India enacted a long awaited special law to ensure justice to children who are victims of sexual violence and abuse, called the Protection of... -
#Data4Justice - Unpacking Judicial Data to Track Implementation of the POCSO ...
The research undertaken for this report covers cases of sexual offences against children which have been registered in the Case Information System (CIS) of the district courts... -
Justice Under Trial: A Study Of Pre-Trial Detention In India
To assess the effectiveness of various legal safeguards to prevent excessive undertrial detention, between 2014 and 2016, Amnesty International India filed nearly 3,000 Right to...
