Section 323 IPC Archives

Confinement within a room suffices for wrongful confinement, physical restraint not required: Delhi High Court

“Pertaining to the allegations of wrongful confinement as well as voluntary hurt by way of beatings, the statement of prosecutrix in the FIR is clear and specific that the same was done by both the accused persons with a common intent.”

Case Briefs High Courts

‘Misunderstanding cannot lead to filing FIR in heinous crime like rape; compromise unacceptable’; Bombay HC refuses to quash FIR

“Compromises in heinous crimes are not in the interest of the society since it will then be easy for the accused persons to get the consent of such informants by putting pressure or using money power.”

Case Briefs High Courts

Know why J&K and Ladakh HC held that charge-sheet could not be quashed based on plea of alibi

“This Court in exercise of its powers under Section 528 of the BNSS cannot hold a mini trial to ascertain the veracity of the plea of alibi put up by the petitioners.”

Case Briefs High Courts

‘Consideration of PO Act is right of accused and duty of Courts’; Gauhati HC grants benefit under PO Act to Headmaster & his son convicted of assaulting student’s mother

“The Probation of Offenders Act, 1958 was a milestone in the progress of the modern liberal trend of reform in the field of Penology. It was the result of recognition of the doctrine that the object of criminal law was more about the reformation of the offender than punishing him.”