All of this is reminiscent of what a distinguished statesman of Sweden — Count Axel Oxenstierna who held office as lord high chancellor, the modern equivalent of prime minister, for an unparalleled period of forty-two years — wrote in 1648 in a letter to his son: “thou dost know my son, with what little wisdom the world is governed.” Substitute “India” for “the world”, and you will know why our criminal law has not kept pace with society’s needs.
The writer is an eminent jurist
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