criminal law

SCOPE OF INTERFERENCE UNDER ARTICLE 226 OF THE CONSTITUTION: The power of quashing the criminal proceedings has to be exercised very sparingly and with circumspection and that too in the rarest of rare cases and the Court cannot be justified in e..

In the case of Jagdish Yadav Vs. Ram Nandan Yadav & Ors., 1990 SCC (Crl.) 648, it was observed that simply due to lodging of a cross-case the investigation ought not to have been interfered with by the High Court. As in view of the fact that the two cases related to the same incident it was open to the Magistrate after the two reports came to be placed before him to consider ..

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 Objectively analyzed the criminal jurisprudence adopted by India is a mere reflection of the Victorian legacy left behind by the Britishe..

 An overview of the following cases highlight the adverse condition of the poor with regard to the unjust bail system in India. In f..

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 These unscrupulous murders of female or girls is justified on two grounds. First, it reduces the population and second is that the poor parents will be saved from the expenses which they would have to incur in the marriage of ..

The expression "the record of the case" is used in S. 227 of the Code. Though the word "case" is not defined in the Code but S. 209 throws light on the interpretation to be placed on the word. Section 209 which de..

 Is ‘Rape’ merely a word described in section 375 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, to be interpreted stricto senso? Or is it a psychological p..

 According to the Indian Penal Code, 1860, a man is said to have committed `rape’ when he has had sexual intercourse with a woman under these conditions : p style="font-family: arial, verdana; text-decoration: none; fon..

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 Many women are forced into prostitution either by their parents, husbands or boyfriends -- or as a result of the difficult economic and social conditions in which they find themselves. They are also lured into prostitution, so..

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For summoning an additional accused an order under Section 319 of the Criminal Procedure Code should not be passed only because the first informant or one of the witnesses seeks to implicate other person(s). Sufficient and cogent reasons are required to be ass..

 There is no provision in the Code to file a protest petition by the informant who lodged the first information report. But this has been the practice. Absence of a provision in the Code relating to filing of a protest petition has been considered. This Court in Bhagwant Singh v. Commissioner of Police and Another (AIR 1985 SC 1285), stressed on the ..