How To Write An Essay On Law Of Evidence

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Law of Evidence: Movie Review I:

NO ONE KILLED JESSICA
‘Delhi is about Power’
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The movie, No One Killed Jessica, is a 2011 release based on the infamous Jessica Lal murder case of 1999. The case was a landmark for it bought forth the problem of ‘Hostile Witness’ and ‘Evidence Tampering’ in a country like India. The movie is from the perspective of a journalist, Mira, who initially believes the case to be a simple ‘open and shut’ case but 7 years down the line realizes the gross injustice done by the trial court in bringing the accused to justice and traces the journey of Jessica’s sister, Sabrina, who puts up a relentless fight to avoid this miscarriage of justice.

The movie is set in Delhi, in the Summer of 1999 and shows Jessica to be bartender along with her friend Vikram at a high end party in a club owned by Mallika Sehgal and her husband Peter. It is at this party that the main accused in the case, Manish Bhardawaj, son of a Haryana MLA, along with his companions Vishal and Lucky, approaches the victim to serve him a drink. Jessica refuses to do so as the bar is shut and asks him multiple times to back off. Enraged by this, Manish points a gun towards Jessica and insists that she serve him the alcohol. …show more content…

Let’s take for instance S. 25, S.26, S.27and S.29 of the Act. These primarily make a confession in custody inadmissible in court. The laws governing when confessions are valid are full of loopholes that were, in the Jessica Lal murder case, exploited by the defense. These protections of the defendant were introduced to reduce the prevalence of confessions produced by torture. But what the rule has done instead is make the standard of "relevance" too high. Even with a direct confession of guilt, the defendant can find a way to have it later thrown out through one or another loophole and as did happen in the Jessica Lall

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