ISSN (Print) - 0012-9976 | ISSN (Online) - 2349-8846

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Law as a Conduit of Violence

Violent Modernities: Cultural Lives of Law in the New India by Oishik Sircar, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2021; pp xiii + 370 , `1,399.99 (hardcover).

Death by Excise Policing

A recent amendment to the Madhya Pradesh Excise Act introduces death penalty for spurious liquor offences. Given the casteist nature of policing, this amendment renders the Vimukta communities, already over-represented in the criminal justice system, more vulnerable to police abuse.

 

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