Appellate: A Second Shot At Justice

Human judgements are fallible. Despite best efforts and the provisions ensuring a fair trial and justice, mistakes and errors cannot get ruled out completely. Therefore, the Code provides for the appeals, enabling the superior courts to review, revise, and correct the judgements given by the lower court. The Supreme Court gets the appellate and advisory jurisdiction. Appeals are not only a curative device. Instead, it serves a purpose of utmost importance. It provides the aggrieved parties with a certain satisfaction. The fact that the judgements del...

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Speed Thrills but Kills- Preventing Road Accidents in India

India has a well-connected and synchronised transportation infrastructure that serves a vital role in the growth of commercial development by supporting the equitable distribution of generated products and services and the mobility of people. The transport sector's contribution to India's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is gradually increasing. It is one of the primary metrics used to analyse the country's socio-economic progress because traffic crashes are a criterion of obstacles and other impediments to the smooth flow of traffic. The NCRB collects deta...

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Role Of Cyber Crime Cell in India

In the cyber age of the twenty-first century, everything has shifted to virtual platforms. Information technology has drastically changed the lives of people. Excess computing has even resulted in people involving in various cyber crimes. The blend of "Cyber" and "Crime" refers to the crimes committed through the computers and internet. Where indulgence in cyberspace has provided people with wonderful opportunities, overindulgence has resulted in the misuse of such a technology. To protect individuals from the various crimes committed through the inter...

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Criminal Intimidation: A Law Under The Indian Penal Code, 1860

Intimidation refers to putting a person in a position of fear to make them do something or not do something. Thus, an act of intentionally threatening a person or someone or something he has a vested interest in involve intimidation. The purpose is to make them do something against the law for the intimidator's profit or benefit. Intimidator might use words or actions to threaten and injure the victim's body, property, reputation or family member. Criminal Intimidation Section 503 of IPC 1860 defines the offence of criminal intimidation. To commit the...

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