Description

• Section wise commentary on the Indian Penal Code, this 34th translated edition is radically revised and exhaustively covers the consequences of the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013.
• Includes widest possible range of topics from emerging areas of criminal law including:
• Jurisdiction in territorial waters in the light of the Enrica Lexie case
• Corporate criminal liability in offences having mens rea
• New trends in punishments and sentencing

– Fake encounters and honour killings
– Mercy killing in the light of the Supreme Court judgment in Aruna Shanbaug Case
– Delay in disposal of mercy petitions and commutation of death sentence
– Discussion of Capital punishment and the ‘Rarest of rare’ doctrine

• This translated edition too has a Summary at the end of the work
• Indispensable for students, scholars, presiding officers in courts, legal practitioners, investigators, administrators, draftsmen, legislators and social scientists