Tag: IPC

  • Call for Submissions: Working Document on Penal Laws’ Reform in India

    Call for Submissions: Working Document on Penal Laws’ Reform in India

    ‘The government has initiated the process of consultations with stakeholders for amending Indian Penal Code (IPC), Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) and the Indian Evidence Act, MoS (Home) Ajay Kumar Mishra today informed the RS.’ Link This is a call for submissions for recommendations you would like to make to the government panel working on…

  • K.M. Nanavati v State of Maharashtra

    By Kanishka Mishra, University of Delhi. Here’s an interesting power point presentation prepared by our Research Intern, to simplify the case. Do go through the same to brush up your knowledge about the case.

  • Sedition: Critical Interpretation

    By Anshika Juneja, Symbiosis Law College, Pune. KENNY- the Law of Sedition relates to the uttering of the seditious words, the publication of seditious libels, and conspiracies to do an act for the furtherance of a seditious intention. The Bombay High Court on Tuesday 22nd September,  directed the State not to implement its circular issued by the Home Department…

  • To Die or Not to Die, is the Question

    By Pragya Dhoundiyal, Law Center-1, Faculty of Law, Delhi University. Right to Life is a right of wide import. This right has always been a bone of contention because defining its limits and the ingredients of this particular right depends on the interpretation and understanding of life of the person who is analyzing it.

  • Would India be justified in doing away with the Death Penalty?-Decoding the 262nd Law Commission Report

    By Vershika Sharma, National Law University, Jodhpur. India is one of the 59 countries in the world that still retain death penalty even after the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 62/149 on 18-12-2007. 262nd Law Commission Report is the outcome of references made by the Supreme Court in death penalty matters to discuss and re-examine its…

  • Death caused by Negligence

    By Saurav Das, School of Law, Christ University. Humans, by their nature itself, often divert from the boundaries of righteousness that they have set up for themselves. These diversions can be caused due to mistake, or they may even be deliberate and intentional. These acts invite various penalties, which too are the yielding of our mind.…

  • Abetment of an Offence

    By Priyanka Agarwal, Chaudhary Charan Singh University. Abetment is an offence only if the act abetted would itself be an offence punishable under the Indian Penal Code or under any other law for the time being in force. Chapter V, Sections 107 to Sections 120 of the Indian Penal Code,1860 are related with abetment. When several persons…

  • Question Continues: Justice or No Justice?

    By Amrita Dasgupta, South Calcutta Law College. The number of pending cases, piled up with the Indian judiciary, is legendary. It has been estimated that it would take at least 320 years to clear off the total backlog of 31.28 million cases pending with various courts across the country.[1] After 13 years of the prolonged court…

  • LGBT Rights in India

    By Nikhil Nair, VIPS, New Delhi. LGBT is a common term used to describe people who are Lesbians, Gay, Bisexuals and Transgender. The ambit of LGBT also sometimes widens up to include non-heterosexuals. A large population in India is homophobic. Being a part of the LGBT community is considered to be a sin for them.…