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Background
Overview
Crucial for understanding India's role in upholding international law, its foreign policy choices, the functioning of its criminal justice system in an international context, and the challenges of balancing national interests with global responsibilities in combating impunity for grave international crimes.
Universal jurisdiction is a principle of international law allowing a state to prosecute individuals for certain international crimes (like piracy, war crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity) regardless of where the crime was committed, the nationality of the perpetrator, or the nationality of the victim. It is based on the idea that these crimes are so heinous they are considered 'enemies of all humankind' (hostis humani generis).