THE CRIMINAL PRACTICE & JUSTICE SYSTEM IN INDIA
CONTENTS
Introduction and organisational context
The Department
The history of Bombay High Court
The History of Supreme court New Delhi
The Department’s of Indin Criminal law
3.1. The Indian Penal Code
3.2. The Code of Criminal Procedure(CrPC) in India.
3.3. The Indian Evidence Act.
The debate issues in bombay high court - case laws
Aim, objectives and outputs
1.AIM - Murder; sec 300 to sec 307
2.Objectives - Bail; sec 436 to sec 450 2.1. Bailable offence 2.2. Non-bailable offence
Literature Review
3.1.Successes of Practice in Criminal Justice system.
3.2. The Failures of Practice in criminal Justice in India.
3.3 Malimath Committee recommendations
3.4 LAW, COURTS AND THE CONSTITUTION
3.5 SOURCES OF LAW
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Research methodology
Research method
The Criminal Justice System; The Way forward and Reform
Bibliography
(1)Introduction and organisational context
1. The department
The constitution of India in its current form consists of a preamble, 22 parts containing 395 articles, 12 schedules, 2 appendices and 94 amendments to date. Although it is federal in nature with strong unitary bias, in case of emergencies it take unitary structure.
India has one of the oldest legal system in the world. Its law and jurisprudence stretches back in to the centuries, forming a living tradition which has grown and evolved with the lives of its diverse people. The judical system of India dates back to the time immemorial but its written history starts with the 'Artha Sastra' of Kautilya. But the modern judicial system in india laid its foundation stone with the beginning of the british rule in india. The present judicial system in India is relatively independent and its legal system in based on English common law. The judiicial concepts and procedures in India resemble thoes of Anglo-Saxon countries. The supreme
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