Offences

Offences and Penalties Under Industrial Relations Code 2020

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CIVIL

Offences and Penalties Under Industrial Relations Code 2020

Power of officers of appropriate government to impose penalty in certain cases (Sec 85) No court shall take cognizance of any offence punishable under this Code, save on a complaint made by or under the authority of the...

Designated categories of offences-FATF

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Criminal

Designated categories of offences-FATF

Designated categories of offences Designated categories of offences means:  participation in an organised criminal group and racketeering;  terrorism, including terrorist financing;  trafficking in human beings and migrant smuggling;  sexual exploitation, including sexual exploitation of...

Civil wrong vs criminal wrong

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Difference

Civil wrong vs criminal wrong

Distinction between civil wrong and criminal wrong as has been succinctly held by this Court in Devendra v. State of U.P., (2009) 7 SCC 495, relevant part thereof is reproduced herein below: A distinction must be made between a...

Offence

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Judicial Dictionary

Offence

12. An offence ordinarily signifies a public wrong: it is an act or omission which is a crime against society: it may therefore be brought to the notice of the court by any person, even if he is not...

Res ipsa loquitur

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Law of Torts

Res ipsa loquitur

Res ipsa loquitur is a rule of evidence which in reality belongs to the law of torts. Inference as to negligence may be drawn from proved circumstances by applying the rule if the cause of the accident is unknown...

Penalties and Offences under Railways Act

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RAILWAY

Penalties and Offences under Railways Act

Chapter XV Penalties and Offences 137 Fraudulently traveling or attempting to travel without proper pass or ticket (1) If any person, with intent to defraud a railway administration,- (a) enters or remains in any carriage on a railway or...