Suspects' Rights in India

ISBN-13: 9781032081250 / Miękka / 2023 / 250 str.

Prejal Shah

Opis

This book examines the procedural, cultural, and institutional framework of custodial interrogation in India. It explores theoretical and practical perspectives on custodial interrogation practices in India which have been in urgent need for reform and critiques the systemic failure to implement suspects’ rights uniformly. 

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Methods and methodology 3. Police Interrogation: The Need for Reform 4. The Way Forward: Enhancing the Right to Custodial Legal Assistance 5. Revisiting the Absolute Ban on Evidential Uses of Confessions made to Police Officers 6. Suspects’ Rights in Context: Tackling the Use of Force and Torture in Custodial Interrogations 7. Recommendations and Conclusion. Bibliography.

O autorze

Prejal Shah is presently working as a Lecturer in law at the University of Lincoln, UK. Her current research involves custodial legal assistance during police interrogation during COVID-19 in a comparative perspective.