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Vikram Singh & Anr v. Union of India (2020) [20] Indian Penal Code 376 E - Certain repeat offences in the context of rape Vijay Jadhav v. State of Maharasthra (2019) [21] The Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 31A (1) Indian Harm Reduction v Union of India (2011) [22] Arms Act, 1959 27 (3) (Repealed) [23] State of Punjab v.
Similarly, specific reference to section 302 ("tazīrāt-e-Hind dafā tīn-sau-do ke tehet sazā-e-maut", "punishment of death under section 302 of the Indian Penal Code"), which covers the death penalty, have become part of common knowledge in the region due to repeated mentions of it in Bollywood movies and regional pulp literature.
In India, Section 420 of the Indian Penal Code (before its repeal by introduction of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita) dealt with Cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property. The maximum punishment was seven years imprisonment and a fine. [1] Section 420 is now Section 318 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
Anger is growing in India after a teenager who allegedly killed two people while drunk driving was ordered to write an essay as punishment, with many demanding a harsher penalty and accusing the ...
This is when India's laws became more attuned with British Common Law, which came from rulings in British legal cases, and is what Judges used to decide cases. [19] This meant that India had limited, on the way to becoming zero, usage of Hindu or Islamic Laws while the law of the colonizers became the predominant form of litigation.
The Contempt of Courts Act 1971 categorises the offence of contempt into civil and criminal contempt. [12] The act specifies that high courts and the Supreme Court of India have the power to try and punish the offence of contempt, and high courts have the power to punish acts of contempt against courts subordinate to them; however, the Supreme Court of India has clarified that any court of ...
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The procedure for a summons case is to be followed, subject to special provisions made in this behalf. The maximum sentence that may be awarded by way of a summary trial is three months with or without fine. The Magistrate may give up the summary trial in favour of the regular trial if he finds it undesirable to try the case summarily.