"What Constitutes Crime?": Review (3) of Dube and Rao (eds.) Crime through Time by Shatam Ray in The Book Review (original) (raw)

Review of Dube and Rao (eds) *Crime through Time* by Peter Robb in *Indian Historical Review*

Indian Historical Review, , 41, 2 , 2014

*Crime through Time* also raises another of the important elements of the picture just painted. If the first is the importance of extra-legal contexts, related to it is the persistence alongside the ‘modern’ system of other forms of law, as in Saurabh Dube’s eloquent study of the interface between officialdom, community law, and everyday life. Reinforcing these perspectives are various accounts of resistance or of variant systems of law, during and after colonial rule: Anand Yang and David Arnold on prisons (relating also to proportionality in punishment), Rajeswari Sunder Rajan on female ‘outlaws’ (Phoolan Devi), Anupama Rao on caste atrocities and Tanika Sarkaron Muslim women and children in Gujarat, a vivid and gruelling account. These return us, as does the volume as a whole, to complex definitions of crime in context.

Principles of Illegality under the Law of Crimes in India.

International Journal of Engineering Technology Research & Management, 2017

Concept of the legality of an action traverses through various popular and interchangeable words, yet adheres to specific meaning in every different legal circumstance. Illegal, unlawful, offence, irregular are seeming the same but the treatment given to these words in criminal jurisprudence worth exploration for learners of law. Every illegality is unlawful whereas every unlawful is not illegality. Immoral act not necessarily becomes illegal and irregular act without prejudice is curable. The author here analyses the concept of illegality for the beginners of law. Findings: Every illegality is unlawful whereas every unlawful is not illegality. Immoral act not necessarily becomes illegal and irregular act without prejudice is curable.

Police Criminality and Judicial Trends in India-A Legal Discourse From A Human Rights Perspective

Journal of Political Studies, University of North Bengal, 2016

"The basic tenet of police system in India is that it's a vital arm of government for establishing the stability in the society. The police must play its role according to the law of the land and perform its duty impartial and independent manner without any biases and prejudices to anybody. But the ground realities tell a different story as there is a rampant of criminality 2 in the police system. The whole police system has been facing trust-deficit crisis as civil society treats them as foe instead of friend. The Indian Police deeply involved in corruption and partisan politics and behave highly unprofessionalism. The police is not a master of the society but the servant and its biggest accountability is towards the public at large. The policing in India have always been a controversial issue due to various factors including human rights violation and numerous instances of custodial violence i.e. how police treat suspects, custodial murder, inhuman custodial torture, their biases and prejudices against a particular community. Its matter of fact that many innocent youths have been killed in fake encounters and most of them belongs to a particular minority community. The chief reason of rampant criminality among police is that its non-accountability and unanswerable attitude towards the society and the reason being is there is no law which can prosecute errant police officials. When it comes to extrajudicial killings it is worst as their targets are mainly from the minority community especially the Muslims. 3 There have been many conclusive studies that suggest police have played highly partisan role while tackling terrorism or performing duty to ensure law and order in the society. The finding of Justice Nanavati Commission Report of 1984, Justice Srikrishna Commission Report and National Police Commission Report are some instances. The main thirst of the present paper is to examine the pattern of police criminality and activism of Indian judicial system.