Criminal Law

Unlike video games, life may not give you a second chance. Similarly, you only have one chance to fight criminal charges. Hence, you need an expert lawyer in your corner to help you. Hiring the best criminal lawyers can be very expensive, and many try to avoid hiring such lawyers to save money. However, money isn't as important as reputation, and you could face jail time if you don't hire the best criminal lawyers. You may be unfamiliar with the judicial system and perplexed if you appear in court for the first time. Aside from that, cross-questioning ...

Money laundering requires criminal groups who want effective use of illegally obtained funds. It is inefficient and risky to deal with large amounts of unlawful currency. So, criminals need a mechanism to deposit money in legitimate financial institutions, but they can only do so if the money appears from respective sources. The illegitimate funds enable criminals to fund a variety of other criminal operations. Furthermore, money laundering promotes corruption, distorts economic decision-making, magnifies societal issues, and jeopardises financial insti...

Chapter 17 of the Indian Penal Code,1860, entitled "of offences against property", deals with all the criminal offences committed against the property. One such offence is the Criminal Breach of Trust. Section 405 of chapter 17 includes the provision for Criminal Breach of Trust. The crime of criminal breach of trust is quite similar to Embezzlement under the Common Law. According to the definition under the Act, a person would be guilty of the offence of criminal breach of trust when he "dishonestly misappropriates" or "converts" or "illegally dispose...

Terrorism in India has grown significantly over the last two decades. The bomb blasts and terrorist attacks in cities like Jaipur, Ahmedabad, and Bangalore, the attack on Mumbai and the recent attack on Pune outraged every Indian. No civilised nation can allow such barbaric inhumanity to be supported or sponsored in any part. The only way to reduce such activity is through anti-terrorism laws like the Prevention of Terrorism Act, 2002 India faces numerous challenges in managing its internal security. Terrorist activity has increased to cross-border ter...

The majority of illegal acts are committed to making money. Money laundering involves processing unlawful money to disguise its illegal origin. This procedure is crucial because it allows the criminal to profit without jeopardising their source of income. Illegal arms sales, smuggling, and organised crime activities, such as drug trafficking and prostitution rings, can generate large sums of money. Large profits can be made by insider trading, bribery, and computer fraud schemes, all of which create an incentive to "legitimise" the ill-earned ...

The Single Convention—UNODC, classified and placed narcotic drugs under international control. The Single Convention restricts production, manufacture, export, import, distribution, trade-in, use, and possession of drugs only for medical and scientific purposes. The statistical data publication includes the availability and use of narcotic drugs in various countries and territories. The publication of estimates and statistics on narcotic drug production, manufacture, storage, and utilisation intends to provide producing and manufacturing countries wit...