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GS-4CRIMINAL JUSTICE ETHICS - WRONGFUL CONVICTION

22 Years for a Crime the Evidence Never Proved - What the State Owes Arjun Jani Now

Jani, accused of bludgeoning three women to death, was convicted of only one of the three murders and had exhausted his appeal at the Odisha High Court before the Supreme Court intervened. The bench's order is significant not just for the acquittal itself, but for explicitly naming the chain of institutional failure - police coercion, a trial court that didn't test the evidence and an appellate court that added the case "to…

Sub TopicCRIMINAL JUSTICE ETHICS - WRONGFUL CONVICTION &…SourceSUPREME COURT OF INDIA
UPSC Relevance9/10
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GS-4STATE RESPONSE TO DISSENT - PROPORTIONALITY

"Listen First, Never Escalate" - Why the Supreme Court Calls Restraint an Obligation, Not a Choice

A writ petition by retired Air Force officer Maneesh Kumar Solanki sought accountability for violence during the Cockroach Janta Party-linked "Sansad Chalo" march on July 20, which led to a police crackdown in Delhi. The petitioner's counsel argued that 15 days on, no action had been taken against organisers and that a young man had separately died amid related unrest in Rajasthan. The Supreme Court, tagging the plea with…

Sub TopicSTATE RESPONSE TO DISSENT - PROPORTIONALITY & RESTRAINTSourceSUPREME COURT OF INDIA
UPSC Relevance9/10
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GS-4JUDICIAL ETHICS - GENDER SENSITISATION

Why the Supreme Court Wants Judges to Have an "Emotional Quotient"

The report was published after the Supreme Court, in February 2026, set aside a March 2025 Allahabad High Court ruling that had classified an act of sexual assault as mere "preparation" rather than "attempt" to rape. During those hearings, CJI Surya Kant reportedly called the 2023 handbook "too Harvard-oriented" for practical use, prompting the National Judicial Academy to build a more usable, trauma-informed framework for…

Sub TopicJUDICIAL SENSITIVITY, ETHICS & GENDER JUSTICESourceSUPREME COURT OF INDIA
UPSC Relevance9/10
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GS-4ETHICS OF CROWD CONTROL & PROPORTIONATE FORCE

"Less-Lethal" Weapons Are Leaving Real Bodies With Permanent Damage - The Ethics Behind the Euphemism

Protesters at a July 20 demonstration in New Delhi alleged excessive and indiscriminate use of force by security personnel, including the first known use of shock-batons for crowd control in the capital and nail-studded lathis. The incident has renewed scrutiny of India's crowd control regulations, which specify escalation rules but leave critical gaps on device specifications, targeting protocols and accountability - gaps…

Sub TopicMINIMUM FORCE DOCTRINE VS. RIGHT TO PEACEFUL PROTESTSourceTHE HINDU
UPSC Relevance9/10
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