Criminal Liability Archives

Written warranty from manufacturer can protect Vendor from criminal liability under Food Adulteration Act: SC

Section 19(2)(a)(ii) of the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954 provides that a vendor shall not be deemed to have committed an offence pertaining to the sale of any adulterated or misbranded article of food if he proves that he purchased the article of food from any manufacturer with a written warranty.

Case Briefs High Courts

Madras High Court| Directors cannot escape criminal liability on the ground that they are not directly involved in the production of sub-standard Pharma products

Madras High Court: In a petition filed under Section 482 of Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) to quash the criminal complaint filed

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Explained| Dishonour of Cheques: Can non-executive Directors of the accused company be held vicariously liable under Section 141 NI Act?

Supreme Court: In an appeal against a judgment passed by the Calcutta High Court dismissing the Criminal Revision Application filed

Op Eds OP. ED.

Whether the Defence of Grave and Sudden Provocation be Applied in the Cases of Prolonged Provocation

by Nidhi Pandey*

Case Briefs High Courts

Vicarious Liability of Directors of Company for offences committed under S. 138 NI Act: Person claiming to not being able to manage business due to his age, could this be accepted as defence? Del HC answers

Delhi High Court: Subramonium Prasad, J., addressed a matter pertaining to vicarious liability of directors of the company alleged for offences under

Case Briefs District Court

Law on Medical Negligence | When can a doctor be summoned for criminal charges relating to medical negligence? Patiala House Courts explains

Patiala House Courts, New Delhi: While addressing a case of medical negligence Prayank Nayak, MM-01, expressed that doctors can be summoned for

Case Briefs High Courts

[Tandav] “Cheap and objectionable”, All HC rejects bail application of Aparna Purohit. Holds, submission of apology or withdrawal of scene after streaming would not absolve criminal liability

Allahabad High Court: In an interesting case regarding a controversial web-series, Tandav broadcasted on Amazon Prime on 16-01-2021, Siddharth, J., had denied

New releases News

Legal potion for future Intelligence by EBC| Artificial Intelligence: Law And Policy Implications [Edn. 2020]

Editors: Purvi Pokhariyal, Amit K. Kashyap and Arun B. Prasad

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Experts Corner

Corporations: Legal Fiction or An Unborn Predator?

by Ankoosh Mehta*, Smruti Shah**, Neham Tayal***, Durga Agarwal†, King Dungerwal‡

Case Briefs Foreign Courts

Bolton has gambled with national security of USA | US District Court says: Former NSA is exposed to potentially criminal liability, while ruling against injunction on his White House Memoir

United States District Court, Columbia: Royce C. Lamberth, J., held that, a mandated pre-publication review process is not an unconstitutional prior restraint.