An attempt to commit suicide is punishable under Section 309 of the Indian Penal Code. An abetment to commit suicide has also been made punishable under Sections 305 and 306. Section 305 deals with abetment of suicide specifically for people with a disability. The Indian Penal Code has set a comparatively more severe punishment as…
View detailsSections 120A and 120B, as a part of Chapter Seven, were added to the Indian Penal Code by the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1913 with the view to overcome the gaps in Section 107, IPC which defines abetment. The addition of these two sections to the code has now made the commission of an…
View detailsINTRODUCTION: Almost every transaction around us is a result of a contract. When you buy vegetables from the seller, you promise to pay him money in exchange for vegetables. If you own a shop, you enter into two contracts; one with the manufacturer of the goods and second with the customer who will buy the…
View details“TERRORISM- a Threat to Piece”Terrorism is an act, which aims to create fear among ordinary people by illegal means. It is a threat to humanity. It includes person or group spreading violence, riots, burglaries, rapes, kidnappings, fighting, bombings, etc. Terrorism is an act of cowardice. Also, terrorism has nothing to do with religion. A terrorist…
View detailsA complaint was filed by a Mumbai-based activist Naaz Patel in association with Avesta Foundation NGO. The complaint was filed in December 2020. In the complaint, Patel demanded that the Flipkart-backed e-commerce giant remove the logo, and urged the police to take appropriate action against the company.[1] Myntra’s logo was a multi-colored letter ‘M’. According to the Times of…
View detailsVolenti Non-Fit Injuria The literal meaning of this maxim is that an act to which man consents cannot be complained off as an injury. In other words, if you consent to an act, you are not eligible to complain but suffer the consequences of your own consent. It is assumed that consent shall be obtained…
View detailsChild labor is not unique to only India and is found in many places in Africa, South America and even Europe. Western companies such as Gap have come under fire for their exploitation of children in their manufacturing process. Many of these facilities that abuse children for their free labor are located in India. The main states in India where child…
View detailsArticle 32 is the “soul of the Constitution and the very heart of it”. The best conferment of the Constitution is the Fundamental Rights. Somehow or another, they frame the rampart of our Constitution. Each one of these Rights is trivial if there exists no instrument to authorize them. Article 32 gives such a component. That…
View detailsTransgender persons are people whose identities are different from the stereotypical gender norms, which identify genders only as male or female. Society has failed to accept their gender identity due to which they have suffered from discrimination, social oppression and physical violence. There are certain socio-cultural groups of transgender people who are identified as Hijras,…
View detailsINTRODUCTION: The right to die is a concept founded on the belief that humans have the freedom to choose whether or not to live. A person with a terminal illness, intractable pain, or no will to live should be permitted to end their own life, use assisted suicide, or refuse life-prolonging therapy if they have…
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