Indian Penal Code

July 01, 2024

No more IPC, CrPC: 3 new criminal laws take effect today

Home Minister Amit Shah, who piloted the laws, said the new laws would give priority to providing justice, unlike the British-era laws that gave primacy to penal action.

July 01, 2024
Punishments get stringent as IPC, CrPC become history

Defamation and theft of articles valued below Rs 5,000 and similar crimes will invite new punishment like community service
December 25, 2023
Three bills to replace British-era criminal laws, Telecommunication bill get Prez nod

Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and Bharatiya Sakshya Bill will replace colonial-era laws.
December 20, 2023
Lok Sabha passes three criminal law bills

The IPC, Code of Criminal Procedure Act and Indian Evidence Act have been replaced.
December 05, 2023
Kerala has 96% charge-sheeting rate for IPC offences, highest in country: NCRB's 2022 data

The charge-sheeting rate is the percentage of cases charge sheeted by police of the total number of cases disposed of in a particular year.
August 11, 2023
Criminal law overhaul: Sedition to be scrapped; death for mob lynching, rape of minors

Union Home Minister Amit Shah introduces three bills to replace Indian Penal Code, Code of Criminal Procedure and Indian Evidence Act.
July 26, 2023
Alappuzha man sentenced to six years in jail for abusing minor girl

The Cherthala POCSO court also imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh on Sathyan, a resident of Thamarappilly Colony in Kakkathuruth.

Indian Penal Code

No more IPC, CrPC: 3 new criminal laws take effect today

Punishments get stringent as IPC, CrPC become history

Three bills to replace British-era criminal laws, Telecommunication bill get Prez nod

Lok Sabha passes three criminal law bills

Kerala has 96% charge-sheeting rate for IPC offences, highest in country: NCRB's 2022 data

Criminal law overhaul: Sedition to be scrapped; death for mob lynching, rape of minors

Alappuzha man sentenced to six years in jail for abusing minor girl

Ministers object to Media Regulation Bill, draft to be put off

Kerala Police face ire on social media for letting off moral policing accused

An inventive 'house for sale' COVID-survival lottery scheme falls on the dark side of law