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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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

The Indian judiciary bats for judicial independence. Wary of executive interference, judges ferociously protect their institutional turf. But does India’s judicial system suffer...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Strangers to Justice is an outcome of CHRI’s experience of working on issues of detention and repatriation of foreign nationals in Indian prisons for nearly ten years. CHRI...

The report is divided into two Volumes. Volume I looks at legal aid delivery across the country thematically. It looks at implementation of legal aid regulations and schemes...

In Rajasthan, Periodic Review Committees (PRCs) or Avadhik Samiksha Samitis are one of the prison oversight bodies which keeps a vigil on illegal and...

The report evidences state wise status of prison monitoring based on the performance of certain indicators which is evaluated against the statutory mandate in that state....

This report documents and examines the process of de congestion of prisons across India by assessing the functioning of High Powered Committees (HPC), Undertrial Review...

The data is collected from cases under 5 different acts - Transfer of Property Act, Specific Relief, Negotiable Instruments, Arbitration and Conciliation, Contracts Act. These...

Can well-functioning courts facilitate the enforcement of creditor rights? How does this affect credit allocation? To study this, I use a difference in difference research...

The strength of contract enforcement determines how firms source inputs and organize production. Using microdata on Indian manufacturing plants, we show that production and...