Rukmini S has this piece in today’s Hindu about how the National Crime Records Bureau systematically under reports crime in the country based on registered FIRs because it only tracks the principal offense. For example, …
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Tag: Legal Database
Sources of Law
I wanted to bring to the attention of our readers, two fascinating online sources on Indian law. The first is a colonial legal history database that has been set up Mitra Sharafi, Assistant Professor at …
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Legal Search Tools in India
A new blog – Legal Research India – was recently brought to my attention. Created by Arjun Sheoran, a student a NLSIU, it looks like a welcome new legal research tool that not only searches …
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Guest Post: Indian Kanoon – The road so far and the road ahead
The following guest post is from Sushant Sinha – a student at the University of Michigan and the force behind the searchable legal databases website Indian Kanoon. Our blog has previously debated issues of free …
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Digitising Legal Scholarship – II
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post on the sorry state of digital archives of legal scholarship in India. Since then, I have had many responses on archives and searches that do exist …
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Launch of Indian Kanoon-Online Resource for Indian Court Decisions
A vibrant computer science student at the Univ of Michigan, Sushant, recently launched “Indian Kanoon”, a fabulous online resource for Indian judgments. This valuable research tool will go a long way towards ensuring better access …
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