Introduction: Indian Penal Code, 1860 is the criminal code of India that codifies the substantive aspects of the criminal law. It was drafted in the year 1860 under the recommendations and guidance of first law commission that was set up in the year 1834 under the Charter Act of 1833 Read more…
Introduction: Male are not seen as victims in India, they are only seen as perpetrators. If rape has been committed then it’s assumed that the female is the victim no one thinks that it can be male also. The society has formed a presumption that no men can be raped. Read more…
Introduction: The protection of the environment has become one of the big global concerns of the 21st century. Human’s exploitation of nature and their ability to manipulate the world by science and technological achievement has made them cynical not only to themselves but also to other living beings, plants, living Read more…
Introduction: The Indian Penal Code, 1860 entails different kinds of crimes, their nature, scope and punishment thereof. The Indian Penal Code was drafted by Thomas Babington Macaulay in 1837; he was also the Chairman of the First Law Commission. The code is influence by British Law however; various elements have Read more…
Introduction: ‘Adultery’ has been derived from the Latin word ‘adulterium’ which means ‘to corrupt’. The dictionary meaning of adultery is the act of having sexual relations by a man with a married woman, to whom he is not married. But the legal definition of adultery is different in different cultures. Read more…
INTRODUCTION The jurisdiction comes from the Latin roots of ‘juris’ means the law and ‘dicere’ means to speak. It is the authority given to administer, operate and legislative over a state. It establishes the limitations on matters of geographical control of the authority granted. In the year 1843, the first Read more…
Introduction Adultery and its legal perspectives have been always in target question of the Indian courts. This 150-year-old law in India was bestowed upon us by the British India Company, under section 497 of Indian Penal Code, 1860. However, after the independence of India, the validity of the same section Read more…
Introduction Good faith is defined under section 52 of the Indian Penal Code. Due Care is the essential part of Duty of Good Faith without which Good faith cannot be said to done or proved. The expression of ‘with due care and attention’ is mentioned only under section 52 of Read more…
Introduction The Indian Penal Code is considered to be the criminal act followed in India. It was introduced in the First Law Commission, formulated and headed by Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay in the year 1835. Later after subsequent changes, it was submitted to the Governor-General of Indian Council in 1837. Read more…
Introduction India has been dealing with crime against women for a long time. Several Indian laws have recognized violence against women in every form with proper provisions of strict punishment. However, the culprits or perpetrators in these laws are pre-determined as males, which make these laws gender-biased and also violating Read more…
There exist a lot of confusion between the offence of culpable homicide and the offence of murder. They are defined under section 299 and 300 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). These two offences sound similar to each other but they are not synonymous to each other. Courts have also Read more…
Introduction The Indian Penal Code is the subjective criminal law. It is essentially acts as a dictionary for criminal acts and their punishment in India. The reason India needs a criminal code is because; the judges did not have a uniform set of rules or legal principles to base their Read more…