Jyoti Punwani

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Jyoti Punwani is a freelance Indian journalist who has reported for various newspapers including Indian Express, Times of India, The Hindu, DNA and other news media including Economic & Political Weekly, Scroll and The Hoot. She writes and has reported on Indian politics, civil and criminal law, communalism, police brutality, and gender equality.

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Nov 22, 2022 ∙ 20 min

Making the Law ‘Take its Own Course’

Does the law take its own course or is it made to take a certain course? Property cases are notorious for taking forever, but when the crime is murder, i.e., when the state is the prosecutor, and the facts of the case have been ascertained by the most reliable authorities, can justice elude the victim’s families for as long as two or three decades? Or is it made to do so? These questions arise from the way two cases—which should have been front page news but have simply disappeared from the...