India on July 1 implemented an overhaul of colonial-era criminal laws, praised as a “watershed” movement by the top judge but which critics said could worsen an already glacially slow pace of justice. Amit Shah, the interior minister, said the codes would help India “become the world’s most modern justice delivery system”. The three overhauled...

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