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Insanity As An Exception To Criminal Liability - A Study On Section 84 Of The Indian Penal Code 1860




Saarthak Verma, Symbiosis Law School, Hyderabad


ABSTRACT


“Criminal liability settles upon the limit of the individual to recognize what is legitimate and unlawful. Loss of this limit, through craziness for instance, stops the individual to be held responsible under the steady gaze of an official courtroom. Just clinical treatment will be looked for. Such legitimate technique communicates a philosophical decision most European overall sets of laws made toward the finish of the eighteenth century and which isn't without its own questions. However, the majority of the issues raised with regards to the craziness protection in English law center around the importance of madness. A similar methodology with French law reveals insight into the lawful technique embraced to figure out what is lawful and unlawful: the reasonable items of the procedural framework have a complex influence in forming the system in criminal law.”

Indian Journal of Law and Legal Research

Abbreviation: IJLLR

ISSN: 2582-8878

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