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: -
  1. First Part: Substantive Criminal Laws
  • The Indian Penal Code, 1862
  • Criminal Procedure Code, 1973
  1. The Indian Penal Code is a substantive law[3], whereas the Criminal Procedure Code is procedural law.[4]
  1. 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.
  1. The Indian Penal Code aims to provide a primary penal code in the country for giving punishment to the wrongdoers. On the other hand, the Criminal Procedure Code’s main motive is to provide for binding procedures that must be enacted during the administration of a criminal trial.
  1. The Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 provides for the courts and Magistrate’s powers, while the Indian Penal Code does not.


These laws provide for the punishments for the offenders by the extent of the crime committed.

2. Second Part:  Procedural Law

This law provides a process for establishing the offenders’ guilt and imposing the punishment prescribed under the substantive criminal laws.
The Code is the country’s primary criminal Code and was drafted during the British Raj in the year 1850 and was presented to the then Legislative Council in the year 1856. It came into force on 01st January 1862.
The Code covers various offences (divided into multiple categories) and the related punishments for the said crimes. For instance, Crimes against the body (Murder, kidnapping, Culpable homicide, etc.), Crimes against property (theft, dacoity, etc.), Economic crimes (Cheating and Counterfeiting) and various other crimes.
The Code is the procedural law that provides a detailed procedure for punishments under the penal laws. It thereby enforces and administers the Indian Penal Code and various other substantive criminal laws. The Parliament enacted the Code on 25th January 1974 to consolidate and amend the law relating to Criminal Procedure.
The Criminal Procedure Code is read along with the Indian Penal Code, 1862 and the Indian Evidence Act, 1872. There often exists a state of perplexity concerning the difference between the Indian Penal Code, 1862 and the Criminal Procedure Code, 1973. Let us now look at the differences between the two legislations.
 

Difference between the Indian Penal Code, 1862 and Criminal Procedure Code, 1973

Let us now take an example to understand the difference between the legislations better.
Izzie to kill Mathew enters his house and murders him by hitting him with a hammer and slitting his throat. 
Section 300 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 defines ‘Murder.’ And 
Section 302 of the Code prescribes the punishment for the said crime. The section specifies that any person who commits the act will be punished with death or life imprisonment.
How will Izzie be punished for the crime committed?
Murder is a non-bailable and cognizable offence. The Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 thus specifies a procedure to be followed to determine the offender’s guilt, whether or not bail will be granted, evidence to be taken into account, trial, investigation and impose the individual penalty.

CONCLUSION

Three primary legislation governing criminal law in India: the Indian Penal Code, Code of Criminal Procedure and the Indian Evidence Act continue to play an essential role in the courts of law for effective execution and justice administration. Due to the rise in crimes and criminals, it becomes vital for all citizens to learn the country’s primary criminal laws’ fundamental differences.

[1]The full form of IPC is the Indian Penal Code
[2] The full form of CrPC is Criminal Procedure Code
[3] Substantive laws refer to those laws that define individuals’ rights and duties and the respective punishment and organizations.
[4] Procedural Laws include those rules that govern the process of determining individuals and organizations’ duties and rights.

Comments

  1. Suvankar19 May 2021 at 02:03

    Damn this made me feel illegal about myself.

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  2. AAKRITI 19 May 2021 at 02:10

    Well explained 💯

    ReplyDelete
  3. GaLaXY19 May 2021 at 02:14

    Punishing for Crimes is just cliched.
    Instead, they should just reward people for not doing it! ; )

    ReplyDelete

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