THE INDIAN PENAL CODE AS AMENDED BY THE CRIMINAL LAW (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2013

Ratanlal & Dhirajlal's The Indian Penal Code has served the legal profession, and all those associated with it, for more than a century. This radically revised 34th edition exhaustively covers the consequences of the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013 and discusses the widest possible range of topics from emerging areas of criminal law including:

1 Jurisdiction in territorial waters in the light of the Enrica Lexie case
2 Corporate criminal liability in offences having mens rea
3 Community service in lieu of imprisonment
4 New trends in punishments and sentencing
5 Application of General Exceptions during investigation
6 Fake encounters and honour killings
7 Mercy killing in the light of the Supreme Court judgment in Aruna Shanbaug
8 Delay in disposal of mercy petitions and commutation of death sentence
9 Difference between sections 304A and 304 Part II in the light of the BMW Case
10 Constitutionality of death penalty - Does Bachan Singh need a fresh look?
11 Rarest of rare doctrine - Is capital sentencing in India judge centric? As has been the hallmark of previous editions, the current edition too has a Summary at the end of the work. This book is indispensable for students, scholars, presiding officers in courts, legal practitioners, investigators, administrators, draftsmen, legislators and social scientists.

THE INDIAN PENAL CODE (ACT XLV OF 1860) ARRANGEMENT OF SECTION

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION PREAMBLE

1. Title and extent of operation of the Code

2. Punishment of offences committed with-in India

3. Punishment of offences committed beyond, but which by law may be tried within India

4. Extension of Code to extra-territorial

5. Certain laws not to be affected by this

 CHAPTER II GENERAL EXPLANATIONS

6. Definitions in the Code to be understood subject to exceptions.

7. Sense of expression once explained

8. Gender

 9. Number

 10. “Man” “Woman

11. “Person

12. “Public.”

13. [Repealed

 14. “Servant of Government

15. [Repealed]

 16. [Repealed]

CHAPTER III OF PUNISHMENTS S. 53. “Punishments

A. Construction of reference to transportation

 B Commutation of sentence of death