In Pakistan's post-colonial scenario, legislative experience in criminal law has been state-centric; the citizen-centric and rights-based legislation has been an exception. One of the examples of this citizen-centric legislation is the Anti-Rape (Investigation and Trial) Act, 2021 (2021 Act). The piece of legislation is unique in many ways. First, it tries to legislate on the principle of cooperative federalism by...
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The author is an independent researcher and has done his BCL from the University of Oxford.