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These quick notes cover 30 core concepts of the B.N.S.S., taken one at a time: the role of the three new criminal codes, classification of offences, F.I.R. and complaint, investigation, arrest and the rights of the arrested person, confessions, search and forensic safeguards, bail (regular, anticip…
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About this topic ▶ Watch this part of the lecture (0:00) These notes cover the 57 most important cases of Indian Constitutional Law . They are the cases that keep coming up in LL.B. examinations, in judiciary examinations and in every serious discussion of constitutional law. Every case is studied…
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When a crime is reported, the first question is: who did it? A good lawyer asks a second question: who made it happen? The person caught with the stolen goods is often only the last link in a chain. Behind that person, someone may have planted the idea, someone may have shaken hands on the plan, an…
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The objectives of criminal procedure are crucial for the effective functioning of the criminal justice system.
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About this subject ▶ Watch this part of the lecture (0:00) A crime may take a few seconds, but what follows can last for years: information to the police, investigation and perhaps arrest, production before a Magistrate, bail, a report in court, a decision whether to put the person on trial, eviden…
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Supreme Court of India · 2014
In Aveek Sarkar v. State of West Bengal (2014), the Supreme Court held that a photograph of tennis player Boris Becker posing nude with his fiancee, published with an anti-racism message, was not obscene, and it quashed the criminal proceedings under Section 292 IPC. The Court rejected the old Hicklin test and adopted the community standards test. It also held that material must be judged in its full context. This judgment changed the direction of obscenity law in India and strengthened press and artistic freedom.
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