The law is not abracadabra but at once pragmatic and astute and does not surrender its power before scary exaggerations of security by prison bosses. Alternatives to 'solitary' and 'irons'…
In recent years, nanavati case got limelight when akshay kumar performed the role of nanavati in his movie ‘Rustom’. The movie has proven a big hit on box office and…
Supreme Court struck down the section 497 of IPC which was providing punishment for adultery, in Joseph Shine v. Union Of India (2018). After this, its reading remained just for…
The right of private defence is codified in ss. 96 to 106, I.P.C. which have all to be read together in order to nave a proper grasp, of the scope…
Section 191 of Indian Penal Code Giving false evidence. ” Whoever being legally bound by an oath or by an express provision of law to state the truth ……… makes…
Sentencing Sentencing the guilty is the last and the most important, albeit, a difficult chapter in a trial. It involves sensitive exercise of discretion and not a ‘routine or…
Chapter XI is headed “Of False Evidence and Offences against Public Justice”. Section 191 defines the offence of giving false evidence which is known as perjury in English Law. It…
The word “fraudulently” is defined by s. 25 of the Penal Code. A person is said to do a thing fraudulently if he does that thing with intent to defraud…
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…
Latin Maxim ‘nemo tenetur sciepsum tenetur’ literally translated means, a man cannot represent himself as guilty. This rule prevailed in the Rabbinic courts and found a place in the Talmud…
