What is a charge sheet?
What is a charge sheet?A charge sheet refers to a formal police record showing the name of eachperson brought into custody, the nature of the accusations, and the identityof the accusers. It is also known as a four-part charging Instruments. When any informant informs the police about any crime that has occurred, the police, after...
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SECTION 420 IPC SUMMARY Section 420 specifically punishes aggravated cases of cheating,any act of cheating, whether fraudulently or dishonestly, ispunishable under section 417. In contrast, section 420specifically punishes a case where cheating is done by dishonestinducement and its subject matter is property or valuablesecurity.Cheating is defined in section 415 of the IPC. section 420 laysdown...
Read MorePRAVIN CHANDRA MODY CASE SECTION 420
PRAVIN CHANDRA MODY VS STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESHCitation: 1965 AIR 1185, 1965 SCR (1) 269Date of decision: September 15, 1964Bench: J. K Subba Rao, J. M. Hidyatullah and J.R MudholkarOriginal Copy:Statutes Involved: Section 173 and 251 of the C.R.P.C and Section 11 of the EC Act FACTS WITH RESPECT TO SECTION 420 In this case, the appellant is being...
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NAVTEJ SINGH JOHAR V. UNION OF INDIA (2018 10 SCC 12) INTRODUCTIONSection 377 of the Indian Penal Code, titled as “Unnatural Offences”, stated that “whoevervoluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animalshall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description for aterm which may...
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“I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved”-B. R. Ambedkar. Introduction The first question in the study of criminology is why a person has committed a crime. The reasonmay be greed, anger, jealousy, revenge, or pride. Criminology is a subgroup of sociology whichincludes the scientific study of...
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