Media
The Square Circle Clinic's work on India's criminal justice system extends into articles, blogs, and podcasts produced by the team. This is where that thinking takes shape in our own voice, outside of litigation and research.
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Death Penalty
2026
How selective public outrage can justify custodial deaths, reinforce state impunity
Death Penalty
Death Penalty
2026
Death Penalty in India and The Perils of Sentencing Exceptionalism
Death Penalty
Death Penalty
2026
Redefining life imprisonment sentencing for capital offences in India
Death Penalty
Death Penalty
2026
Sathankulam verdict raises deeper questions about custodial violence
Death Penalty
Criminalisation and Punishment
2026
Wider Reach, Less Safeguards: How Criminal Law Moved in 2025
Criminalisation and Punishment
Death Penalty
2025
Capital punishment highest in murder cases, sexual violence next: Death penalty lawyer Shreya Rastogi
Death Penalty
Death Penalty
2025
The death penalty has been widely, unfairly imposed. Supreme Court has fixed the problem
Death Penalty
Death Penalty
2025
Beyond lethargy: What the 7/11 case reveals about flawed terror trials
Death Penalty
Criminalisation and Punishment
2025
'Black Warrant' Shines a Light on Indian Prisons, But Also Reasserts Status Quo
Criminalisation and Punishment
Mental Health
2025
Who killed Katie? The whodunnit question that ‘Adolescence’ raises
Mental Health
Death Penalty
2025
Death penalty sentencing in India: The futility of introducing safeguards for an inhuman punishment
Death Penalty
Criminalisation and Punishment
2024
Why electronic monitoring for those on bail is a false promise
Criminalisation and Punishment
Death Penalty
2024
How Justice Bhagwati’s 44-year-old dissent mirrors the state of death penalty in India
Death Penalty
Death Penalty
2024
Harsher rape laws do little to prevent sexual violence
Death Penalty
Death Penalty
2024
Kolkata rape: Rage is justified, revenge is not
Death Penalty
Criminalisation and Punishment
2024
New criminal codes from July 1: A threat to citizen liberty, justice under the guise of a decolonisation
Criminalisation and Punishment
Criminalisation and Punishment
2024
What happens during remand hearings? This is what a study suggests
Criminalisation and Punishment
Death Penalty
2024
India's burgeoning death penalty crisis - The Hindu
Death Penalty
Criminalisation and Punishment
2024
After SC verdict on Bilkis Bano convicts, a question: Which prisoners deserve hope?
Criminalisation and Punishment
Criminalisation and Punishment
2024
Justice for Bilkis Bano, questions on remission - The Hindu
Criminalisation and Punishment
Criminalisation and Punishment
2023
New criminal law Bills endanger civil liberties
Criminalisation and Punishment
Criminalisation and Punishment
2023
Justice, anger and the Nithari acquittals - The Hindu
Criminalisation and Punishment
Criminalisation and Punishment
2023
GPS ankle monitors for UAPA-accused on bail: Too many issues to ignore
Criminalisation and Punishment
Criminalisation and Punishment
2023
Criminal law Bills and a hollow decolonisation - The Hindu
Criminalisation and Punishment
Criminalisation and Punishment
2023
New criminal laws don’t deal with the real culprit – India’s institutions
Criminalisation and Punishment
Criminalisation and Punishment
2023
Controlling women's sexual autonomy - The Hindu
Criminalisation and Punishment
Criminalisation and Punishment
2023
Expert Explains: What does the proposed legislation to overhaul criminal justice system mean?
Criminalisation and Punishment
Death Penalty
2023
The Supreme Court puts the spotlight on the mode of execution in death penalty cases
Death Penalty
Criminalisation and Punishment
2022
EWS reservation: Supreme Court has not clarified tricky questions at the intersection of equality, non-discrimination, and affirmative action
Criminalisation and Punishment
Criminalisation and Punishment
2022
Two-finger test in rape cases: Executive must summon the political will to implement Supreme Court’s directive
Criminalisation and Punishment
Criminalisation and Punishment
2022
Twists and turns in G N Saibaba case raise important questions about state’s powers and responsibilities
Criminalisation and Punishment
Criminalisation and Punishment
2022
Supreme Court reverses Bombay High Court order of bail to G N Saibaba and others: Gravity of offence vs Due Process
Criminalisation and Punishment
Death Penalty
2022
Death penalty: Deciding the rarest of the rare
Death Penalty
Criminalisation and Punishment
2022
What numbers don't tell us
Criminalisation and Punishment
Death Penalty
2022
Indian court fighting against a tide of death sentences
Death Penalty
Criminalisation and Punishment
2022
The injustice of exceptionalism - The Hindu
Criminalisation and Punishment
Death Penalty
2022
Death penalty for rape: Both Ashok Gehlot and his critics miss the point
Death Penalty
Criminalisation and Punishment
2022
Reform bail law, but make the right diagnosis first - The Hindu
Criminalisation and Punishment
Death Penalty
2022
There is a concerted effort to plug procedural gaps in death penalty sentencing
Death Penalty
Death Penalty
2022
The challenge of reforming death penalty sentencing - The Hindu
Death Penalty
Criminalisation and Punishment
2022
Opinion: Can there be justice in the 2019 Hyderabad encounter case?
Criminalisation and Punishment
Criminalisation and Punishment
2022
Anup Surendranath and Adrija Ghosh write: In a heavily flawed justice system, Perarivalan’s release is a rare success
Criminalisation and Punishment
Death Penalty
2022
Delay in Balwant Singh's mercy petition - The Hindu
Death Penalty
Death Penalty
2022
An Expert Explains: Reforming death penalty
Death Penalty
Death Penalty
2021
Punitive responses to sexual violence need rethink, given perverse consequences
Death Penalty
Criminalisation and Punishment
2020
Comprehensive reforms, not just CCTVs, can end custodial torture
Criminalisation and Punishment
Forensics
2020
Forensic Science In The Dock: The Questions We Are Not Asking
Forensics
Criminalisation and Punishment
2019
The many gaps in NCRB data
Criminalisation and Punishment