Kunal Ambasta is an assistant professor of law at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. His areas of interest are criminal justice, the law of evidence and proof, and the intersections between law and gender.
'A culture where the rights of women and sexual and gender minorities can be wholly erased without even having to defend such a move clearly shows where the centre of power lies, and how it…
The secrecy in drafting the bill to replace the Evidence Act is reminiscent of colonial legislation by committee. The lack of consultation has meant that the interpretative confusions in existing law…