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May 31, 2021

Misuse of Section 295A – Part 3
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INTERNATIONAL SCENARIO– In different parts of the world such as United States does not have hate speech since according to them it would violate the guarantee to freedom of speech contained in First Amendment of the Constitution. In Canada, the offence is indictable, and carries a maximum penalty of imprisonment not exceeding five years. In…

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Space Law
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Earlier, land owners had the rights to the land and the air above them infinitely. When airplanes came into picture, it became impractical to take permission from each and every land owner in order to fly above their land. It was universally decided that the air 500 feet (150 metres) above the land would belong…

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Hindu Joint Family and Co-parcenary
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Hindu joint family and coparcenary Hindu joint family is an important concept of Hindu jurisprudence. Hindu joint family comprises of common male ancestor and his lineal male descendants up to any generation along with the wives and widows of these descendants, unmarried daughters. Once a daughter is married she becomes a member of the joint…

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Insanity as a Defense under IPC 3
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SECTION 84.2 Legal insanity vis-à-vis Medical Insanity- A distinction is to be made between legal insanity and medical insanity. A Court is always concerned with legal insanity, and not with medical insanity. What Sections 84, IPC, 1860 provides is defense of legal insanity as distinguished from medical insanity. A person is legally insane when he…

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