STALKING UNDER IPC – 354D Often while returning home from school, college or work, while going on a walk alone, visiting places, standing near windows, working online, sharing information, or talking to people across our gadget screens the fear of someone unknown and unwanted watching or routing for us awakens in our minds. We always…
Nuisance as a tort is divided into two categories, private nuisance and public nuisance, which have their own scope of conduct and types of harm. Private nuisance, in which the defendant’s behavior “causes substantial and unreasonable interference with the claimant’s land or his use or enjoyment of the land” and public nuisance, in which the…
The House of Lords decided in R v R [1991] that it is illegal for a husband to rape his wife under English criminal law. The defendant, identified only as R in the decision to protect the name of the victim, was convicted of trying to rape his wife in 1990. He challenged his conviction…
Introduction Forgery is the action of the copy or imitation of the real documents, signatures, banknote,etc. In simple words, copying a valuable or legal document for wrong use to deceive others is forgery and those who commit this offence are charged under “crime of fraud”. Documents that can be the subject of forgery include contracts,…
This article discusses the differences between theft and extortion. Section 378 of the Indian Penal Code, 1882 (hereinafter referred to as IPC) defines theft as ‘Whoever, intending to take dishonestly any moveable property out of the possession of any person without that person’s consent, moves that property in order to such taking, is said to…
Defamation is the act of communicating false statements about a person that injure the reputation of that person when observed through the eyes of ordinary man. Any false and unprivileged statement published or spoken deliberately, intentionally, knowingly with the intention to damage someone’s reputation is defamation. A man’s reputation is treated as his property and…
Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code defines rape as “Sexual intercourse with a woman, without her consent, against her will, by coercion, misrepresentation or fraud or at a time when she has been duped or intoxicated, or is of unsound mental health and in any case if she is under 18 years of age.” …
The definition of rape under Section 375 of IPC includes all forms of sexual assault involving nonconsensual intercourse with a woman. However, Exception 2 to Section 375 exempts unwilling sexual intercourse between a husband and a wife over fifteen years of age from Section 375’s definition of “rape” and thus immunizes such acts from prosecution.…
Does a person have any rights after their death? The answer is yes and were going to learn more on the same subject. ‘Necrophilia is derived from a ‘nekro’ (dead body) and ‘philia’ (attracted to / love) and is defined as a paraphilia whereby the perpetrator gets sexual pleasure while having sex with the dead. A…
Sexual harassment in the workplace is neither new nor uncommon; nonetheless, it is not widely recorded or discussed. In some form or another, most working women endure sexual harassment at work. It’s always been there, but it’s never been acknowledged. It is, in fact, a continuation of patriarchal violence at home and in society at…
