CRIMINAL INTIMIDATION

MEANING The Indian Penal Code, 1860, sets forth the rules that regulate criminal activity in India. It is a substantive piece of legislation that lists all criminal offences and imposes punishment on offenders who violate it. One of these offences covered by Chapter XII of the Indian Penal Code is criminal intimidation. Intimidation is defined…

Concept of Inchoate crimes

Inchoate crimes are unfinished crimes, the crimes which couldn’t able to get completed due to some reason or were disrupted in between by anyone, intentionally or unintentionally, resulting in not the completion of the offence. Inchoate has come from the Latin word- ‘Inchoate’ means ‘begun’. The word ‘inchoate’ literally means ‘underdeveloped’ or ‘unfinished’ and the…

Abetment of suicide

In section 306 of the Indian Penal Court, abetment of suicide is if any person commits suicide, whoever abets the commission of such suicide, shall be punishable with imprisonment of either description of a term which may extend to 10 years, and shall also be liable to fine. In other words, someone who abets others…

CRIMINAL MISAPPROPRIATION OF PROPERTY UNDER THE INDIAN PENAL CODE

INTRODUCTION The offence of criminal misappropriation of property is an offence against property. In criminal misappropriation, criminal refers to something related to an act that is wrong or crime or something prohibited by law. And Misappropriation refers to the unfair taking of another person’s belongings for one’s own use. Thus, criminal misappropriation is the dishonest conversion of another’s…