criminal law

Synopsis: Criminal law has a distinguishing role to play in the social world, a function that provides it a distinct center from different territories of law, since criminal law is the essential legal organization by which a community reconstructs the ethical premise of its social order, its moral life, in the wake of an assa..

Orissa High Court on Trafficking of Girls - In a recent case, Orissa HC observed that trafficking of girls is an offence more heinous than drug trafficking, but ironically less stringent. - Justice Panigrahi while recognising the menace of human trafficking has directed approp..

What is the #JusticeforJayarajAndFenix? - A father-son duo were brutally beaten up and assaulted in police custody in a jail in Tamil Nadu. This incident of police brutality has caused hue and cry among the Indian public who are demanding strict action against the police officials involved. - People on social media are ..

On June 27, 2020, Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court, consisting Justice Harish Tandon and Soumen Sen, directed the Superintendent of Police of every district to investigate into the cases of child marriages and identify whether such child marriages are for economic consideration or under the garb of ch..

INTRODUCTION According to a survey, 1% of the male population continues, long after puberty, to find themselves attracted to minor children. These people are living with pedophilia, a recurrent and intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving sexual activity with children, mostly ..

THE ORDER :   • The Apex Court on 25.06.2020 (Thursday) dismissed the petition challenging the report on sexual harassment allegations against a Judicial Officer of Madhya Pradesh. • This report was submitted by the Gender Sensitization and Internal Co..

Introduction: Even during these tough times, the situations can take a turn even for the worse, and a protest in the midst of such is nothing more than the mockery of law and order. While the world angers over the death of George Floyd to police barbarity, back home the demise of a father-son duo allegedly in police custody i..

The Delhi Police on Tuesday arrested a Court staff for allegedly raping a woman at the Rouse Avenue Court, Delhi.  The accused was then identified as Rajendra Singh, a resident of Kalyanpuri area.  On 22nd June a PCR call informed the Police about the incident followed by which the accused was sent to judicial custody..

What is plea bargaining? Plea bargaining essentially is pre-trial negotiation (bargaining) between the accused and the prosecution.  In plea bargaining, what really happens is that the accused pleads guilty in exchange of seeking some reduction in the charges or sentence. p style="text-align: jus..

The recent death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput, who allegedly committed suicide on 14th June 2020, has left the country in shock and has once again started the discussion on the much-subsided topic of the importance of mental health. As per sources, the actor was battling depression. This article focuses on the law surrounding mental illness and suicide./..

The crime of killing a human being by another human being is categorized as Culpable Homicide under Section 299 and as Murder under Section 300 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The Sections separate the most heinous killing from those which are less serious ones in nature. Both of them are disti..

Since the Jail in India are congested and over crowded , Hon’ble Supreme Court of India held that social distancing is not possible if jails remain overcrowded, making it difficult to for maintaining social distancing. Taking note of the above-mentioned fact, Hon’ble Supreme Court in Suo Motu Writ Petition (C) No. 1..

Corruption is the biggest factor that destroys the Indian democracy especially and every single politician talks to fight against Corruption. Then who is the giver or who is the taker or who is the beneficiary? This finds no answers when the country experienced major scams involving the names of some members of Parliament and State Legislatures. The Constitution of In..

It has not been a while since the incidents of broad day light murders in Faridabad, Hyderabad and U.P and now we see yet another one in Guwahati Assam. This time it was the brutal murder of 26-year-old Rituparna Pegu, a husband and a father, at noon last Friday (12th June, 2020) The unfortunate incident took place as a result of a..

I came across a legal situation during initial days of my practice when I used to appear on behalf of a number of Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) in the courts of Delhi in cases relating to dishonor of cheques, arbitration, executions, SARFAESI etc. One day a man, who was one of the directors in a private limited company, c..