Criminal Justice System In India only about 16 out of 100 people booked for criminal offences are finally convicted. Low rate of conviction points to the inefficiency of the Criminal Justice System of India – which includes the police, prosecutors, and the judiciary. This results in a big problem of people losing faith in the Criminal…
By nature human beings are social animals. Without society and company of fellow beings they cannot live. As for maintenance and survival of a healthy society discipline and order must be maintained some principles and rules have to be followed by all the members of the society. The rules which are thus recognised and have…
The Supreme Court laid down certain basic “requirements” to be followed in allcases of arrest or detention till legal provisions are made in that behalf as a measureto prevent custodial violence. The requirements read as follows: : The police personnel carrying out the arrest and handling the interrogation of thearrestee would bear accurate, visible and…
I Overview :- Criminal law is a body of rules and statutes that defines conduct prohibited by the state because it threatens and harms public safety and welfare and that establishes punishment to be imposed for the commission of such acts. Criminal law differs from civil law, whose emphasis is more on dispute resolution than…
Crime is a wrong against the society at large. It creates an alarming situation in the society. Therefore, any person can come up with a complaint or an information before the concerned authority. The motive of both the things is to attract the attention of the authorities and to punish the offender. Informing of a…
A death in custody is a death of a person in custody of the police, other authorities or in prison. In the 21st century, death in custody remains a controversial subject, with the authorities often being accused of abuse, neglect, racism cover-ups of the causes of these deaths. Custodial death is one of the worst crimes…
I – Overview :- Criminal law is a body of rules and statutes that defines conduct prohibited by the state because it threatens and harms public safety and welfare and that establishes punishment to be imposed for the commission of such acts. Criminal law differs from civil law, whose emphasis is more on dispute resolution…
Death penalty is known as capital punishment. The word “capital punishment” is made of de capitation. It means to cut the upper part of a body. It is connected with capital offence. If we go through the history of crime and punishment, we come across harrowing tales of inhuman tortures inflicted on offenders by way…
Section 498: Enticing or taking away or detaining with criminal intent a married woman Section 498 IPC as stated under the code reads as, “Whoever takes or entices away any woman who is and whom he knows or has reasons to believe to be the wife of any other man, from that man, or from…
Saloni Khaitan Abstract: Legal developments for the right to end life picked up pace in the year 2011, which brought about the judgment of the Division Bench of Supreme Court in Aruna Shanbaug v Union of India. India has introduced the concept of ‘passive euthanasia, also known as withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment, in…
