Relevance of Ancient Indian Criminal Justice System in Present Times: With Special Reference to Police Administration

S.K. Chaturvedi is professor and head department of Political Science and Coordinator of Public Administration, Chaudhary Charan Singh University (formerly Meerut University) Meerut. He has been engaged in teaching Post Graduate and M.Phil students and in supervising research projects of Ph.D. scholars for more than two decades. He has authored and edited ten books and sixty papers and articles of which one and half a dozen formulate chapters of books in the areas of South Asian Politics and Relations, Criminal Justice Administration and India Political System. Dr. Chaturvedi has received Govind Ballabh Pant Award constituted by the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, New Delhi for writing the History of Police in India. He also edits a bi-annual journal and is advisor to Vikas Paricharcha, a journal of the department of Public Administration, Lucknow University, Lucknow (U.P) Member of several academic associations of the national repute; professor Chaturvedi is currently the Vice President of Indian political Science Association.