It is said ‘justice delayed is justice denied’. A Delhi court has convicted a man of rash driving and causing serious injuries to a person in an accident two decades ago. It was hearing a case against Nawal Kishore, who was accused of driving a tractor rashly and hitting Hira Nand Sharma on the Old Pankha Road in southwest Delhi …
The Supreme Court has observed that an offender who had not used any deadly weapon at the time of committing robbery/dacoity cannot be convicted under Section 397 of the Indian Penal Code.The use of deadly weapon by one offender at the time of committing robbery/dacoity cannot attract Section 397 IPC for the imposition of minimum punishment on another offender who …
Acid attack is a brutal act of throwing acid or equally abrasive substance, which is a violent form of assault on a person with an intention to torture or disfigure or even to kill. Earlier, in Laxmi v. Union of India & Ors., a PIL filed by Laxmi Agarwal, acid-attack survivor, where she pleaded to frame the regulations relating to …
"Encounter killings" or "retaliatory killings" or "extra-judicial executions" by the Police are disconcertingly on the increase now-a-days. It may be profitable to reproduce those Sections hereinbelow:- SECTIONS 96 TO 106 OF IPC " Section 96: Things done in private defence Nothing is an offence which is done in the exercise of the right of private defence Section 97: Right of …
"It needs hardly any emphasis that the act of causing grievous hurt by use of acid, by its very nature, is a gruesome and horrendous one, which, apart from causing severe bodily pain, leaves the scars and untold permanent miseries for the victim," noted Supreme Court while passing judgment in Omanakuttan v. The State of Kerala. With acid attack cases …
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