The Disha Act introduced in Andhra Pradesh assembly soon after the Hyderabad encounter case, was touted by the CM Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy in an emotional tone as the ultimate deterrent for rapists. The Act provides for an expeditious disposal of rape with even more stricter punishments. The Act with various amendments in the Indian …
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All murders are culpable homicide but all culpable homicides are not murder. Culpable homicide is the genus and murder is the specie. The real difference between both of them is only the difference in the degree of intention or knowledge. If the degree of intention and knowledge is greater, the case will fall under murder …
The expression ‘murder’ has been derived from the Germanic word, mortna, which means secret killing. Although it was said that in the early period German people had drawn the distinction between open killing and secret killing where the former was not punishable and the later one was. But as per twelfth century every homicide whether …
Sexually explicit content has seemingly become a bigger problem than one could have imagined it to be. Over the years, the entire dynamic between sexual content and the audience has drastically changed owing to multiple reasons, both personal and authoritative. Addiction has a primary role to play in the upsurge of demand for pornography. Debarring …
Our society has been subjected to heinous crimes now and then. Therefore to lessen the number of crimes in society or set an example in society, several social control methods have been framed in-laws backed by sanction. These sanctions are nothing but the punishment that act to reinforce those social values that have to be …