Category: Family Members

Legal provisions regarding the Trial of Offences under section 4 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.Section 4 of the Code of Criminal Procedure provides that all offences under the Indian Penal Code, 1860 shall be investigated, inquired into, tried, and otherwise dealt with according to the provisions hereinafter contained. All offences under any other law shall be investigated, inquired into, tried, and otherwise dealt with according to the same provisions, but subject to any enactment for the time being in force regulating the manner or place of investigating, inquiring into, trying or otherwise dealing with such offences. Image Source: media1.fdncms.com ADVERTISEMENTS: Trial should be fair trial. The Supreme Court of India, has held that a trial which is primarily aimed at ascertaining the truth has to be fair to…

Essay on Efficacy of Punishment in Early Stages and Medieval Period !In order to assess the adequacy of modern penal systems, it is necessary to probe into the origin and evolution of the system of punishment from the earliest time. image source: 62e528761d0685343e1c-f3d1b99a743ffa4142d9d7f1978d9686.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com Early Stages: In primitive societies, men shared with animals the emotion of resentment at injury. The sense of fear and ignorance led to barbarous method of treatment of offenders. The concept of law and order was not yet known. Consequently, the common methods of settling disputes were through personal vengeance such as dual blood feuds and reparation, etc. As pointed out by Gillin, “in those days punishment was reflective reaction to injury”. ADVERTISEMENTS: Thus, in early societies the basis of punishment was retribution and vengeance. This obviously…

Legal provisions regarding prosecution for offences against marriage under section 198 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.Section 198(1) of the Code of Criminal Procedure provides that no Court shall take cognizance of an offence punishable under Chapter XX of the Indian Penal Code which relates to six offences against marriage, namely, deceitful cohabitation by man, bigamy, bigamy with concealment of former marriage, fraudulently by going through marriage ceremony without lawful marriage, adultery, enticing, etc. of a married woman except upon a complaint by some person aggrieved by the offence. As per sub-section (7) of Section 198 of the Code, the above rule also applies in respect of the abetment of or attempt to commit any of the offences mentioned therein. Image Source: vanderbilt.edu ADVERTISEMENTS: The object of Section 198(1)…

Thomas Hood was a British poet and humorist. Hood was particularly fond of making practical jokes to his family members, which he enjoyed and one among those were described in one of his daughter’s writings “Memorials of Thomas Hood”.Hood later on started a magazine on his own, for which he had assistance from many men in literary, but was sustained due his own activity. Even though was sick in bed, he continued his work in poetry which were all well known.Since his health was not in condition, a number of his friends made applications to Sir Robert Peel to consider Hood’s name in the list of literary men who receive pension from the British State. As Peel was a great admirer of Hood’s work, the pension was granted and it…

To (Name) (Address) (Date)Dear (Receiver Name),It came as a great shock to me when I came to know from ____________ (Name) about your accident. I thanked God for saving you from the clutches of death. I plan to come down to ____________ (Place Name) very soon and meet you. You must consider yourself lucky that your family members were not with you. I had earlier warned you a couple of times for rash and sometimes reckless driving, and I’m confident that this accident will be an eye-opener for you. I pray to God that you recover at the earliest. Do not give much stress on your legs and be very careful about your knee-cap. I can understand how disturbed your family is and my sin­cere sympathy is with them. ____________…

The poet has written a small and wonderful piece of writing. The narrator in the poem seems to be filled with a heavy heart while he is going from one place to another that is from some work to back to him house. He is travelling on a horse and it is winter time and it suddenly starts snowing.The poem is written in the year 1923, that time people used to use horses as their vehicle to travel from one place to another. While going to his house, the narrator is struck by a farm land, and begins to look at the snow flakes being falling on the land. He was reluctant to move from there, but the horse signaled him that they have to move back to their home.…

Sarah Teasdale in her beautiful poem “I Am Not Yours” explains the unconditional and unexplainable love between two individuals who despite being blindly in love with each other cannot stay together. There is a beautiful hope that someday the two lovers will be united; in fact united forever.Both of them are patiently waiting for that day to arrive. This poem is the love story of all the individuals who cannot be together despite being madly in love. The reasons are common; the family is against them, or at times they cannot be together because of the age difference, different backgrounds, the bar between the rich and the poor and certain other factors.But despite all this, ‘hope’ is what never dies in the heart of these individuals. They hope against hope…

Dear (Name),I know that this letter is going to hurt you very much, but then I have no options left. ‘As you are aware that our affair has been publicised so much that my family mem­bers have got inkling and consequently they are look­ing for a suitable groom. Even my movements are being watched and my image has come under suspicion. If there is one thing that I cannot forget, it is the moments I spend with you and the maturity that you imbibed in me. I will always miss your company, how much hard I try to forget. Your words, your touch, your sense of humour have now become a part of my life which will be difficult to get off. You have been the only one who has…