Category: criminal law
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Dowry Articles – Theft/379 IPC against MIL/SIL- Delhi High Court
Comment : In this case the court was dealing with a revision against the order of framing of charge by a Mother In law…
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Supreme Court on attempt to murder…
Comment : In this case the court was faced with a situation where the accused belonging to the armed forces (a guard) shot at his…
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Supreme Court on Legal Insanity.
Comment : In this landmark decision the Supreme Court laid down the fundamentals of burden of proof, the standard of proof – the primary…
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Delhi High Court on attempted evasion of excise/cheating/forgery
Comment : Factual Matrix : A wine shop owner was indicted for having obtained liquor sanctioned for sale only in Haryana, and forged by…
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Law of Insanity in India – S.K.Yadav v. State of Maharashtra – 2008
COMMENT : this judgment reiterates the test of legal responsibility in India, the cause and effect relationship between medical and legal insanity – the actual…
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A Joint complaint is main…
A Joint complaint is maintainable in the CrPC, S.13 of the General Clauses Act, says that, unless where the context requires otherwise, words that…
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FIR Quashing on basis of settlement with Bank in a cheating case
Comment : In this case – the accused succeeded in securing credit facilities from a bank by producing forged lease agreements – as collateral security,…
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Nupur Talwar v. CBI (2012 SC) – refusing to interfere with the Magistrate order taking cognizance.
Comment : In this case the magistrate’s order refusing to accept the final report of the CBI, and issuing process to the parents of…
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The basics of criminal trial in India – from charge to conviction (or acquittal)!
This article is a part of series “law for the layman” that I am writing, wherein we have tried to make law as understandable…
