English Authorities on Drunkenness and Mens Rea
It is obvious fact that principles of Indian Criminal law are mostly inspired by the principles propounded by English Courts. However, in cases, Indian Courts took the different conditions of…
Case Note- Director of Public Prosecutions V. Beard, [1920] A.C. 479
This case is considered an important case in the arena of the relationship between drunkenness and mens rea. But, before discussing this case, it is relevant here to mention the…
Classification of Prisoners- Is it legal to classify Prisoners in ‘Better’ and ‘Ordinary’ class?
Generally, we see that police adopts different behavior for different type of prisoners. But, is this legal under Indian law to do so? Supreme Court had the occasion to end…
Detention Jurisprudence- Is it legal to handcuff an under trial prisoner?
In the case of Prem Shankar Shukla v. Delhi Administration(1980), the supreme court met the chance to consider the question of the handcuffing to under trial prisoners. This petition came…
When PIL was filed to appoint special judicial magistrates to dispose petty cases
Kadra Pahadiya v. State of Bihar, (1997) This was the case of Kadra Pahadiya v. State of Bihar, (1997), Where a Public Interest petition was filed to Supreme Court to…
Some beautiful words of wisdom quoted from Joseph Shine’s Judgment
A woman cannot be asked to think as a man or as how the society desires. Such a thought is abominable, for it slaughters her core identity. And, it is…
How evidence in Rape cases should be evaluated?- Supreme Court Guidelines
Rape is not merely a physical assault - it is often destructive of the whole personality of the victim. A murderer destroys the physical body of his victim, a rapist…
How to Decide if any death is ‘Murder’ or ‘Culpable Homicide’?
The academic distinction between ‘murder’ and ‘culpable homicide not amounting to murder’ has vexed the courts for more than a century. The confusion is caused, if courts losing sight of…
Whether Dar-ul-Qaza is a parallel court and Fatwa has any legal status?
This question came for the decision in Vishwa Lochan Madan v. Union Of India (2014), In this case, the petitioner objected the establishment of darul-Qaza and the binding force of…
Wasim Rizwi approached the court for removal of Aayats but what court said in such type of petitions?
The Court cannot sit in judgment on a holy book like Koran, Bible, Gita and Granth Sahib.