What are the rights of victim of crime?

Victimology

Question:- What are the rights of victim of crime? or Describe the various victim rights. Answer:- The criminologists were concerned with crime and criminals only but now the attention is also being paid on the victims who sustain injuries or death due to offence committed by another. As a scientific study of the victims position, … Read more

Victimology : Its scope, importance and judicial contribution

Victimology

Question:- What do you understand by “Victimology”? Describe its scope, importance and judicial contribution to it. Answer:- Meaning of Victimology According to Schaffer Stephen “Victimology” is the science which studies criminal victim relationship. According to Drop Kin, “victimology” is that branch of criminology which primarily studies the victims of crime and everything that is connected … Read more

Punjab and Haryana High Court said it is wrong to collect property tax from Dharamshala; It is not a commercial work, Faridabad Municipal Corporation notice rejected

Property Tax

[Case Details:- Shri Daulat Ram Khan v/s State of Haryana and others (CWP-5348-2007 (O&M) Date of Judgement:- 13 February 2023] The Punjab and Haryana High Court held that Property Tax shall not be charged from Dharamshala rented at a nominal rate for the purpose of marriages. The High Court said that this is not a commercial … Read more

Weekly Legal Updates (19 February to 25 February 2023)

Weekly Legal Updates

Weekly Legal Updates main objective is to update the legal knowledge of law students, lawyers, academicians and other professionals. If we do not update our legal knowledge regularly, our knowledge become redundant. Takeaway food will not to attract service tax Takeaway food will not to attract service tax, CESTAT (Customs, Excise & Service Tax Appellate … Read more

Rights of Surety

Indemnity, Guarantee , Bailment, Pledge, Agency, Partnership and Sale of Goods

A surety has certain rights against the principal debtor, the creditor and the co-sureties. His rights against each one of them are being discussed hereunder : Rights against the Principal Debtor 1. Right of Subrogation (Section 140) When the principal debtor makes a default in the performance of his duty, and on such a default, … Read more

Weekly Legal Updates (12 February to 18 February 2023)

Weekly Legal Updates

Weekly Legal Updates main objective is to update the legal knowledge of law students, lawyers, academicians and other professionals. If we do not update our legal knowledge regularly, our knowledge become redundant. Supreme Court dismisses challenge to delimitation in Jammu & Kashmir [Case Details:-Haji Adbul Gani Khan And Anr. v. Union of India And Ors.WRIT … Read more

Discharge of surety from liability

Indemnity, Guarantee , Bailment, Pledge, Agency, Partnership and Sale of Goods

When the liability of surety, which he had undertaken under a contract of guarantee, is extinguished or comes to an end, he is said to be discharged from liability. The modes of discharge of a surety, as recognized by the Indian Contract Act, are as under: 1. Revocation by the surety. (Section 130). 2. By … Read more

Weekly Legal Updates (5 February 2023 to 11 February 2023)

Weekly Legal Updates

Weekly Legal Updates main objective is to update the legal knowledge of law students, lawyers, academicians and other professionals. If we do not update our legal knowledge regularly, our knowledge become redundant. J-K High Court rolls out virtual case hearing for Ladakh In a first-of its kind initiative, the court of Justice Tashi Rabastan heard … Read more

Despite the striking down of Section 497 IPC, armed forces personnel are liable for disciplinary action for adultery: Supreme Court

armed forces personnel are liable for disciplinary action for adultery

A Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court on 31 January 2023 clarified that its 2018 judgment which criminalised adultery and striking down Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code will not impact court martial proceedings initiated against personnel serving the armed forces for adulterous conduct. Court was hearing the Defence Ministry’s plea seeking exemption from applicability to the … Read more

Continuing Guarantee

Indemnity, Guarantee , Bailment, Pledge, Agency, Partnership and Sale of Goods

In this article, we will discuss meaning of continuing guarantee. We will also discuss that how continuing guarantee can be revoked. The function of a contract of guarantee is to enable a person to get a loan, or goods on credit, or an employment. A guarantee may therefore, be given for (i) the repayment of … Read more