Tag: #CRPC

Double Jeopardy

Introduction  Every society has its rules and regulations to control crime and punishments for the violation of the law. Criminal Justice is the system of practices and institutions of government...

Pre Deposit of Fine Cannot be Imposed as a Condition to hear Revision Petition filed by Convict

The Bench of justices Vineet Saran and Dinesh Maheshwari on 4 August 2021 observed that a condition of depositing a fine amount to hear a criminal revision under section 397...

Jammu Kashmir High Court Decides a Criminal Revision

-Report by GURPREET SINGH This case dealt with a criminal revision petition filed by petitioners against an order of the trial Court that discharged the respondent, against whom an FIR...

Death Penalty

 Legislative Acts of death penalty The death penalty is a process that provides punishment to an individual if she or he commits an act that is forbidden by law. It...

Two-Day Long Five-Hour Verdict Slowly but Surely: Karnataka High Court

Justice was served in the form of a Karnataka High Court order on the maintainability of Twitter employee Manish Maheshwari’s appeal against the Uttar Pradesh Police’s notice, even though it...

Sustainable Development: The Indian Judiciary

Introduction Sustainable Development is defined as “to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of Future Generation to meet their own needs”. The concept came into the...

Case Analysis: the State of Kerala v. Chandra Mohanan 2004 (1) SCR 1155

Case Number  Appeal (crl.) 240 of 1997 Equivalent Citation 2004 (1) SCR 1155 Bench V. N. KHARE CJ , S.B. SINHA , S.H. KAPADIA Decided On 28/01/2004 Relevant Act/ Section The Indian...

The Not-So-Common Provision Of Law- Plea Bargaining

Introduction Plea bargaining is a pre-trial practice, wherein the accused pleads guilty in exchange for a lesser punishment or even some of the charges being dropped. This is where negotiation...

Magistrates Don’t Have Power To Order Deportation Of Foreign Citizens

Magistrate quashed 2 deportation orders passed by a Magistrate concerning a foreign resident, the High Court of Telangana observed that under the Code of Criminal Procedure a magistrate does not...

Article 20: Protection Against Conviction of Offenses

Every day in our life, we come across various news items in which someone has been charged with a crime (s). The main question that any legal enthusiast has when...