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‘Criminal law’ is a subject in the Concurrent List of the Constitution. Both Parliament and state legislatures are competent to make laws on the subject.

P Chidambaram writes: Who will answer the questions?

July 14, 2024 9:32 am

Which is the platform to ask the questions and receive answers? No one in the government has answered the questions so far, but the questions will not go away.

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Criminal laws, telecom Bills get President assent

December 26, 2023 2:02 am

The Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 will replace the IPC, the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita will replace the CrPC, and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam will replace the Indian Evidence Act.

Proposed IPC Bill with new clause on ‘false promise to marry’: What it says and how such cases been dealt thus far

August 13, 2023 4:27 pm

While the IPC does not have any specific section on making false promises of marriage, courts have often seen such cases and currently deal with them under sections of the IPC dealing with rape and consent.

Home Minister Shah tables bills that will overhaul India’s criminal justice system: What happens next?

August 13, 2023 12:17 pm

The Union Home Minister said that the three colonial laws – Indian Penal Code, 1860; Criminal Procedure Code, 1898; and Indian Evidence Act, 1872 – shall be replaced, in perhaps the largest criminal justice reform in India’s history.

Acquitting Tejpal, court: Woman did not behave like sexual assault victim

May 26, 2021 7:38 am

Ruling there was no medical evidence and there were “facts” that “create doubt on (her) truthfulness,” the court said the woman’s messages to the accused “clearly establish” that she was neither “traumatised nor terrified” and this “completely belies” the prosecution's case.