Naveed Mehmood Ahmad

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Naveed Mehmood Ahmad is Team Lead, Crime & Punishment at Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy. Naveed's work focuses on improving the responsiveness and effectiveness of the criminal justice system through research on criminalisation, criminal law, law enforcement, and correctional institutions in India. Currently, Naveed is working on decriminalisation of India's legislative landscape and reimagining India's approach towards Crime & Punishment.


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Criminal Justice


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Articles by Naveed Mehmood Ahmad


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November 12, 2024
How India punishes: Rethinking the use of criminal law
Despite claims of reform, India’s criminal laws still rely on arbitrary punishments, criminalising civil matters, and echoing colonial penal codes.
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