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