Category: Criminal Law

This Case Brief is written by K.Lasya Charitha, pursuing BALLB in Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University, Visakhapatnam. Case Number Criminal Appeal No. 638 of 1999 Equivalent Citation 5 SCC 740, AIR 1999 SC 2332, 1999 (2) UJ 1270 Bench Hon’ble Justice K.T.Thomas and Hon’ble Justice M.B. Shah, JJ. Decided On 15th July 1999. Relevant Act/Read More

This article is written by APURVA, a student of the Fairfield Institute of Management and Technology, GGSIPU. INTRODUCTION The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 has various functionaries to help to regulate the various provisions of the code. Those various functionaries under the Criminal Procedure Code are Police, Prosecutors, Court, Defense Council and Prison Authority andRead More

This article is written by Rishita Naredi, First-year B.B.A.-LLB. student in NMIMS Kirit P. Mehta School of Law, Mumbai. In this article, the researcher discusses in detail the rights of the victim of human trafficking.  INTRODUCTION  According to UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Human trafficking refers to an act of recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring,Read More

This article is written by K.Lasya Charitha pursuing BALLB in Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University, Visakhapatnam. In this article, the researcher discusses the problems faced by the witnesses in India and The Witness Protection Scheme,2018. INTRODUCTION Witnesses are considered to be one of the most indispensable elements in the criminal justice system, and the trialRead More

This article is authored by Sanskriti Goel , a 1st year law student from Chanderprabhu Jain College of Higher Studies and School of law, GGSIPU. This article discusses the heinous crime of marital rape which any of the Indian laws fail to address effectively.  “They say that marital rape does not become a rape. AndRead More

This article is authored by Sanskriti Goel , a 1st year law student from Chanderprabhu Jain College of Higher Studies and School of law, GGSIPU. This article deals exhaustively with constitutional law, criminal laws, election laws and IT laws in context of hate speech.  “There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech.Read More

This article is written by K.Lasya Charitha pursuing BALLB in Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University, Visakhapatnam. In this article, the researcher discusses the basic concepts of FIR like the meaning of FIR, who can file an FIR, the process of filing an FIR, etc. INTRODUCTION FIR is very important in Indian criminal proceedings because itRead More

Vanshika Arora, is a first-year B.A.LL.B student at Army Institute of Law, Mohali. This article throws light upon the recent illegal adoptions and child trafficking. Amid the horrors of plummeting oxygen, and floating dead bodies, many other precarious state of affairs have engulfed the country. One of the many is WhatsApp messages being sent around,Read More

This article is authored by Vishrut Gupta, a 1st year law student from Lloyd Law College. This article throws light on the legality of abortion in India as well as the critiques of those laws. “If a mother can kill her child – what is left for me to kill you and you to killRead More