#Question@CurrentLegalGK
Accused committed offence which was an offence in year 2023 but amendment came in 2024 to enhance punishment, in 2025 trial court passes Judgment convicting him under enhanced punishment.
Will Article 20(1) apply?
Accused committed offence which was an offence in year 2023 but amendment came in 2024 to enhance punishment, in 2025 trial court passes Judgment convicting him under enhanced punishment.
Will Article 20(1) apply?
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1. IPC AND POCSO INTERPLAY
2. COURTS CANNOT ENHANCE PUNISHMENT IF NOT PRAYED BY STATE
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2. COURTS CANNOT ENHANCE PUNISHMENT IF NOT PRAYED BY STATE
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#IOS@CurrentLegalGK
Section 26. of general clauses act.
Provision as to offences punishable under two or more enactments.βWhere an act or omission constitutes an offence under two or more enactments, then the offender shall be liable to be prosecuted and punished under either or any of those enactments, but shall not be liable to be punished twice for the same offence.
HOW and WHY then courts 'CONVICT' accused under both IPC and and POCSO/other special statute.
#Question@CurrentLegalGK
Section 26. of general clauses act.
Provision as to offences punishable under two or more enactments.βWhere an act or omission constitutes an offence under two or more enactments, then the offender shall be liable to be prosecuted and punished under either or any of those enactments, but shall not be liable to be punished twice for the same offence.
HOW and WHY then courts 'CONVICT' accused under both IPC and and POCSO/other special statute.
#Question@CurrentLegalGK
#Tip@CurrentLegalGK
Find the only applicable judgment and not list of judgments for research.
"Law is based on quality and not quantity"
Find the only applicable judgment and not list of judgments for research.
"Law is based on quality and not quantity"
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Supreme Court Yearly Digest 2025 On Evidence Act & BSA
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Supreme Court Yearly Digest 2025 On Evidence Act & BSA
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A Doctrinal Shift In Judicial Response To Cyber Fraud
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A Doctrinal Shift In Judicial Response To Cyber Fraud
The Delhi High Court's judgment in Dabur India Limited v Ashok Kumar on fraudulent domain name registration is best understood as a judicial response to the changing anatomy of digital fraud. The...
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The Court clarified that General category is not a quota reserved for any particular class but is open to all candidates purely based on merit.
100 Important Supreme Court Judgments Of 2025 - Part 4 [76-100]
https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/100-important-supreme-court-judgments-of-2025-part-4-76-100-516837
https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/100-important-supreme-court-judgments-of-2025-part-4-76-100-516837
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100 Important Supreme Court Judgments Of 2025 - Part 4 [76-100]
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Important Legislations 2025 | Key Laws, Rules & Reforms | SCC Times
https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2026/01/04/important-legislations-2025-yearly-roundup/
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SCC Times
Important Legislations 2025: Complete Yearly Roundup of Key Central Laws & Reforms
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Year in Review: Important Supreme Court Rulings of 2025| SCC Times
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Year in Review 2025: Defining Landmark Supreme Court Judgments of 2025
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Top Digital & Tech and IPR cases 2025| SCC Times
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AI Deepfakes to Trademark Wars: The Biggest Digital, Tech and IPR Stories of 2025
A comprehensive roundup of Digital & Tech and IPR cases 2025, featuring landmark Supreme Court and High Court rulings on copyright, patents, cyber law and personality rights.
'Sovereignty violation', 'Dangerous precedent': Legal issues around the US capture of Venezuelaβs Maduro π
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#explained_global #express_explained #venezuela
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βSovereignty violationβ, βDangerous precedentβ: Legal issues around the US capture of Venezuelaβs Maduro
The US military action has been criticised as disproportionate, even in the realm of the countryβs history of interventions in South America for securing its own interests, such as oil in Venezuelaβs case.
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Arbitration Act: Important Judgments By Supreme Court In 2025
https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/supreme-court-round-up-2025-important-judgments-on-arbitration-law-516848
https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/supreme-court-round-up-2025-important-judgments-on-arbitration-law-516848
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Arbitration Act: Important Judgments By Supreme Court In 2025
In this article, LiveLaw brings to you a summary of important judgments rendered by the Supreme Court in 2025 in connection with the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996. The same are as...
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Law Cannot Change With Change Of Bench; Coordinate Bench's Decision Binding : Supreme Court
While granting customs duty exemption to Adani Power for electricity from a Gujarat SEZ, the Supreme Court faulted the Gujarat High Court for violating the principle of stare decisis, holding that...
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Right To Speedy Trial Not Defeated By Gravity Of Offence; Prolonged Pre-Trial Detention Becomes Punishment: Supreme Court
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Right To Speedy Trial Not Defeated By Gravity Of Offence; Prolonged Pre-Trial Detention Becomes Punishment: Supreme Court
The right to a speedy trial, guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution, is not eclipsed by the nature of the offence, the Supreme Court held, observing that prolonged incarceration of an...
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Kerala Story: Wayanad's Kalpetta becomes India's first fully paperless judicial district; judges to get AI assistance
https://www.barandbench.com/news/kerala-story-wayanads-kalpetta-becomes-indias-first-fully-paperless-judicial-district-judges-to-get-ai-assistance
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Kerala Story: Wayanad's Kalpetta becomes India's first fully paperless judicial district; judges to get AI assistance
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Shubhankar v State of Karnataka 2025.
A mere punishment per se would not constitute a remedy for an act of crime. It might change the offender's legal or social status, but would not be sufficient to address the root cause of his actions or remove the psychological and emotional factors that made him commit the crime. The idea therefore, is to reform and rehabilitate the deviant person to bring him back into the fold of society. This reformative part, thus, assumes a greater significance. It is more so, when the offender is not entirely responsible for the causes which led to the crime.
12. Society, through its own systemic failures, inequalities, or neglect often plays a role in shaping criminal behavior, and is also responsible for the creation of such behaviour, whether through poverty, lack of education, discrimination, or broken institutions. In that scenario, the offender becomes a victim, requiring adequate measures for treatment by compassionate correction, structural support, and opportunities for genuine transformation. In an attempt to bring the individual back into the social fold, responsibility has to be shared by every other individual, ultimately rebuilding the bonds of community rather than perpetuating cycles of alienation and punishment.
Reformation and Detterance are coupled for remedy of crime.
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#Sentencing@CurrentLegalGK
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Difficult For Institution To Forgive And Forget Silence Of The Bar: Justice Mahesh Sonak Bids Farewell To Bombay High Court
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Difficult For Institution To Forgive And Forget Silence Of The Bar: Justice Mahesh Sonak Bids Farewell To Bombay High Court
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Difficult For Institution To Forgive And Forget Silence Of The Bar: Justice Mahesh Sonak Bids Farewell To Bombay High Court https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/bombay-high-court/difficult-for-institution-to-forgive-and-forget-silence-of-the-bar-justice-maheshβ¦
As judges, we do not deserve praise for doing what we ought to do... Praising judges for their ethical excellence is fine, we all like to hear that... But correcting a judge, if he strays from the path of rectitude is infinitely better and critically crucial and here lies a great responsibility on a great bar. It is crime to remain silent when it is a duty to speak. In the end the institution will not remember the insults or berating of our enemies but it will be sad and difficult for the institution to forget and forgive the silence of the of the Bar whose members are it's legitimate guards and guardians.
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