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INTRODUCTION– DOCTRINE OF ESTOPPEL- Doctrine (Principle) + Estoppel (to stop) = Principle of preventing peoples from going back. “Estoppel is when one is concluded and forbidden in law to speak against his act.” [1] so that other people need not suffer because of the misrepresentation of another person. Also “An estoppel is not a cause of action- […]
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INTRODUCTION– The term “dying declaration” is itself explaining its meaning as- some declaration by died man, under legal context it represents as an oral or verbal statement from the dying man who is declaring the reasons of death, it came into the ambit of evidence under the Law of evidence because there is a belief […]
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INTRODUCTION- The maintenance for wife and child is a substantive right mentioned under procedural law upon which a whole chapter is devoted to the Code of criminal procedure as chapter IX, from Section 125 to 128. This right is introduced in our system to maintain the women and children as it is the ethics of our society, […]
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INTRODUCTION- The concept of pardon is coming hand in hand with the concept of punishment from centuries in India which is as-usual in progress with the current governance system, its inspiration gets derived from the monarchs, kings, and rulers who were there to control their subjects through punishments and pardons,[1]so as we are a sovereign […]
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Section 199(2) of the CrPC- In a landmark decision the High Court of Madras, on May 21, 2020, in the case of N Ram v State of Tamil Nadu[1], quashed 28 complaints of criminal defamation against several editors and journalists. The complaints were lodged in 2012 overs reports against the then Chief Minister of the […]
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The Criminal Law Amendment Bill 2019 was introduced in Rajya Sabha by K.T.S Tulsi, member of Parliament to make the offence of rape gender-neutral. Gender-Specific laws have been present in the Indian legal system since ages but the law is dynamic and it changes accordingly with the society. Recently in the landmark judgment of Supreme […]
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“Every man has right to have his reputation preserved inviolate” – William Blackstone In simple words, Defamation is an act of false communication about another person which lowers his reputation in the eyes of an ordinary man. A man’s reputation is treated as its property and an injury to it is punishable by law. Many […]
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We often heard that Section-144 of Indian Penal Code has been imposed on many parts of India in case of public riots. But why the government impose this section and does imply this section violates any part of our fundamental right? But what exactly is this section-144? Section-144 talks about unlawful assembly. According to this […]
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Criminal conspiracy consists of two words, “Criminal” any action which is unlawful in eyes of LAW which means any prohibited act And “Conspiracy” is when two or more persons constitute together to perform a crime at some point in time. The basic definition can be seen under the Section 120A of Indian Penal Code as, […]
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Perjury, in law, that giving of a false statement under Oath on a question under discussion or point of a looking into causes, edicts looked upon as material. Both old and wise and current-day lawful systems have statements in law for taking statements under Oath and control was given to another penalty for giving a […]
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In 1870, section 124A was included in the Indian Penal Code, which deals with “Sedition”, and was drafted by Thomas Nanington Macaulay. What do Section 124A states Section 124A of the IPC, which deals with anti-government crime, state “Whoever words, either spoken or written, or by sighs, or by visible representation, or otherwise, bring a […]
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Under Indian Penal Code, the word ‘obscene’ and obscenity have not been defined clearly. Section 292 of IPC only states that if any material takin as a whole is sex-oriented or appeals to sex-obsessed thought and tends to give sick ideas to ruins the people who read, see or hear the matter contained will come […]
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