Balakumar Rajendran Supreme Court has held that the judiciary must not show undue sympathy towards the criminals while awarding the sentence as this would ruin the public trust on laws and judiciary. If the courts lose the basic trust of the society there would be no tranquillity and faith in the Indian legal system. There…
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Sibani Panda, Research Associate A company can only act through human beings and a human being who commits an offence on account of or for the benefit of a company will be responsible for that offence himself. The importance of incorporation is that it makes the company itself liable in certain circumstances, as well as…
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Ria Tandon, Research Associate Criminal liability has been defined by lexicon dictionary as something wherein there is accountability and responsibility to another by the ways of legal criminal sanction ((The Lexicon, 3 rd edition)). Through this paper we are trying to understand the principles of criminal liability. Criminal guilt would attack the violator of the…
Author: Aviral Umrao, Research Associate The general basis for imposing liability in criminal law is that the defendant must be proved to have committed a guilty act whilst having had a guilty state of mind. The physical elements are collectively called as Actus reus. And the accompanied mental state is called the Mens rea. In…
Author: Tanya Agarwal, Research Associate Criminal Law is a policy tool to regulate the undesirable conduct in the society. It is a means to an end, not an end in itself. Criminal activities are the worst sorts of behaviour that members of societies can engage in. If corporations commit some of the worst sorts of…
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