Bench of JAGDISH SINGH KHEHAR, S.A.BOBDE JJ., of the Supreme Court of India, while considering the question as to whether the respondent husband has committed an offence under Section 493 and 494 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, held that, Section 493 of Indian Penal Code will not be attracted, if an ex-parte divorce decree…
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Section 493 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 deals with the offence of Cohabitation caused by a man deceitfully inducing a belief of lawful marriage. Under this section a man either married or unmarried who induces a women to become, as she thinks, his wife, but in reality his concubine, is punishable for the offence…
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Section 493 to 498 A, of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 deals with the offences relating to marriage. Section 493 of Indian Penal Code deals with the offence of Cohabitation caused by a man deceitfully inducing a belief of lawful marriage. By virtue of Section 493, every man who by deceit causes any woman who…
Homicide is nothing but killing of a human being. It can be either lawful or unlawful. Lawful homicide is covered under the general exceptions as mentioned under Sections 76 – 106 of Indian Penal Code. Unlawful homicide is categorised under the offences against human life and the same is classified as; Culpable homicide not amounting…
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The Madurai Bench of Madras High Court upholding the contentions of the public prosecutor that, the appellant did not deserve to be let out on bail since the charge of murdering a young girl in a gruesome manner had been proved before the trial court beyond all reasonable doubts, dismissed the application of the convict…
While hearing the criminal appeal filed by Bollywood superstar Salman Khan against his conviction in the hit-and-run case in which he has been awarded a five-year jail sentence, Bombay High Court has adjourned the appeal till July 1. EarlierSessions Court convicted the Bollywood superstar Salman Khan in the hit-and-run case five-year jail term. A man…
Raghavi Viswanath The Indian judiciary has seen a decelerated evolution with regards to sexual harassment laws. This article seeks to highlight and analyze the various flaws in the legal apparatus to deal with sexual harassment as it exists today. One of the most dubious provisions is Section 498-A of the Indian Penal Code. While the…
On decriminalization of Section 309, IPC Tweisha Mishra, Student of Law, National Law Institute University, Bhopal Abstract Suicide as a phenomenon, in the present article, is focused on adolescent or teenage suicides, which are increasing at rapid rates, thus raising a cause of concern. Suicide has been studied with reference to the eminent French sociologist,…
Bombay High Court while hearing an application for anticipatory bail ruled that every breach of promise to marry is not rape and pre-marital sex between couples is no longer shocking in India’s big cities. Being a society in transition, it could be treated as one of the most significant verdict. Complainant claimed that, she was…
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A bench of Chief Justice H L Dattu and A K Sikri of the Apex court while dismissing a woman’s petition who had appealed against a trial court’s decision said false complaints under Section 498A of Indian Penal Code (IPC) against innocent in-laws alleging cruelty and harassment at matrimonial homes were increasingly making the husbands…
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