Introduction: The term “Crime against the person” refers to a broad array of criminal offences which also particularly involves offences that are interrelated to bodily injury or harm. Under the Indian legal system, Indian Penal Code, 1860 is the criminal law of the nation that defines the variations and varieties 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 The present discussion on the case ‘K.M. Nanavati v. State of Maharashtra’[1] is one of the most famous cases in the judicial history of India. In this case the Navy commander, K.M. Nanavati was convicted under section 302 of the Indian Penal Code for the murder of his wife’s 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…