criminal law

 Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code states offenses relating to unnatural offenses. It states “Whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal, shall be punished with [imprisonment for life], or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.”span style="f..

  People killed by radical Muslims on 9/11:     2,996 Muslim-Americans killed in revenge (...by white power felons):     1     Date     C..

the intentional commission of an act usually deemed socially harmful or dangerous and specifically defined, prohibited, and punishable under criminal law. Most countries have enacted a criminal code in which all of the criminal law can be found, though English law—the source of many other criminal-law systems—remains uncodified. The definition..

Ones in power feel the need to have nexus with anti social elements,history sheeters,scandal mongers,hoodlums,miscreants and swindlers. The quality of political leadership is getting murkier and deteriorating as each day passes by and the civil society and the intelligentsia can hardly do anything to nip this catastrophe in its bud.The kind of leadership that inspir..

Experts at MSNBC discovered  yesterday that Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is contagious.  Presumably, Kathleen Sibelius is whipping up a vaccine which will soon be placed into the uber efficient HHS delivery system. Army psychiatrist Malik Nadal Hasan slaughtered 13 people and wounded over thirty others. This was no random sh..

Crime is a feature of all societies at all times. Nevertheless, certain trends and patterns appear consistently at different times and places. In general, traditional societies—i.e., rural and agricultural societies that lack significant economic development—tend to have more violent crime and less property crime than economically developed societies. In..

Crime is always fearful. (Roman) Crime often falls back upon its author’s head. (Roman) Crime puts those on an equal footing whom it defiles. (Roman) Crime, when it succeeds, is called virtue. (Roman) Crimes may be secret, yet not secure. (Italian) From the crime of one learn the nature of them all. (Roman..

According to researchers, pregnant women who take antidepressants such as Prozac (ironically also referred to as the "happy pill"), increase the risk of birth defects in their babies by more than half. Even more alarming, women using SSRIs in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy - when many may be unaware they are expecting - were at a 40 per cent greater risk ..

errorism is rather a new phenomenon and it has engulfed many parts of the world. In India, it is fully entrenched. Terrorists have always been ruthless and cruel with their victims. Beheadings by Taliban and acts committed by recently killed Zarqawi of Al Qaeda in Iraq ( He was killed by precise bombing by American forces) are the testimony for the cruelties and sad..

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELALTE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 875 OF 2008 (Arising out of SLP (Crl.) No. 4801 of 2007) DCM Financial Services Ltd. …. Appellant Versus J.N. Sareen and another …. Respondents J U D G M E N T S.B. SINHA, J. 1. Leave granted. 2. What would be the effect..

 Defamation is defined as “the publication of a statement which reflects on a person’s reputation and tends to lower him in the estimation of right-thinking members of society generally or tends to make the..

 The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Bill was passed by both the Houses of the Parliament and received the assent of the President of India on 10th August, 1971. It came on the Statute Book as the "The MTP Act, 1..

Smt. Kewal Pati, Petitioner V. State Of U.P. And Others, Respondents. DATE OF DECISION: 06-04-1995 CITATION(S) : 1995-(101)-CRLJ -2920 -SC JUDGE(S) : R M Sahai S B Majmudar ORDER This petition was entertained on a letter sent by the wife of the deceased Ramjit Upadhaya who was killed by a co-accused while serving out hi..

The Supreme Court declared on August 4, 2004, in Dr Suresh Gupta's Criminal Appeal [Appeal (crl.) 778 of 2004] that to sustain a prosecution for the offence under S. 304A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), and to fix criminal liability on a doctor or surgeon, the standard of negligence required to be proved should be so high that it can be described as 'gross neg..

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA   CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION ..