Supreme Court Clarifies Corporate Criminal Liability and Mens Rea Framework
The Supreme Court of India recently delivered a definitive ruling on the scope of corporate criminal liability for prosecuting companies for offences requiring a guilty mind. The judgment addresses whether a corporation can face trial when no individual employee or director is explicitly named as a co accused. Decided on September 7, 2026, in Criminal […]
Supreme Court Clarifies Legal Difference Between Wrong and False Statements Under Section 340 CrPC
The Supreme Court of India delivered an important ruling concerning the misuse of perjury provisions in civil litigation. The Court passed the order in Criminal Appeal No. 1365 of 2015, arising out of a long-standing property dispute. The judgment addresses the critical distinction between an inadvertent drafting error and deliberate falsehood under criminal law, setting […]
Supreme Court Clarifies Legal Threshold for offence of Abetment of suicide
The Supreme Court of India pronounced a significant judgment in Criminal Appeal No. 221 of 2025, and the Court passed the order to discharge the appellant from the charges framed under Section 306 of the Indian Penal Code, which deals with the abetment of suicide. This ruling provides essential clarity on the stringent legal requirements […]
Suicide Note and the Consequential Menace
What is suicide? The definition given by the Oxford Dictionary is ‘the action of killing oneself intentionally‘.1 This would mean when someone kills themselves with knowledge that the act would either cause them bodily harm or would die. For an act done intentionally how can anybody else be held responsible. This directly brings into question […]