White-collar crime is a broad term that refers to any criminal act perpetrated by commercial and government employees in the course of their jobs. White-collar crime encompasses a wide range of misdeeds, from antitrust infractions to environmental violations to health-care fraud. Individuals, communities, and society all suffer huge financial, physical, and social consequences as a…
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…
Environment Impact Assessment or EIA can be defined as the study to predict the effect of a proposed activity/project on the environment. A decision making tool, EIA compares various alternatives for a project and seeks to identify the one which represents the best combination of economic and environmental costs and benefits. AIM OF EIA: It…
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…
Foreign exchange or forex, is the conversion of one country’s currency into another. In a free economy, a country’s currency is valued according to the laws of supply and demand. In other words, a currency’s value can be pegged to another country’s currency, such as the U.S. dollar, or even to a basket of currencies.…
INTRODUCTIONGarnishee proceeding is a proceeding by which the decree-holder seeks to reach money orproperty of the judgment-debtor in the hands of a third party (debtor of judgment-debtor).By this process, an executing court may order a third party to pay to the judgment-creditor(decree-holder) the debt from him to the judgment-debtor. The payment made by thegarnishee pursuant…
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…
What is Freedom of Speech and Expression? As per oxford dictionary Freedom of Speech means, “the power or right to express one’s opinions without censorship, restraint, or legal penalty.” According to Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which was adopted in the year 1948, “everyone has the right to freedom of opinion…
INTRODUCTION Limited liability partnership is a combination of both partnership and corporation. It has the feature of both these forms. As the name suggests partners have limited liability in the company which means that personal assets of the partners are not used for paying off the debts of the company. Nowadays it has become very popular…
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…
