Legal Awareness
Legal Awareness What is legal awareness? Legal awareness is knowing basic rights or empowering people with basic knowledge about the law. Legal awareness empowers people to demand justice, accountability and effecting remedies. Indian constitution has so many laws which you should know about. The criminal justice system in India is divided into two parts: - First Part: Substantive Criminal Laws The Indian Penal Code, 1862 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 The Indian Penal Code is a substantive law[3], whereas the Criminal Procedure Code is procedural law.[4] The Indian Penal Code states various crimes and classifies them into multiple categories. The Code also prescribes the penalties and the punishment for the respective offences. On the other hand, the Criminal Procedure Code defines the police's procedure to investigate any violation after having committed any crime mentioned under the penal laws. The Indian Penal Code aims to provide a primary penal code in the country ...