MCL101 | Concentration Course on Criminal Law

This concentration course on “Criminal Law” aims to give an overview of the Indian Criminal Law – both substantive as well as procedural laws through which crimes are regulated as well as criminal justice system is administered in India. Its emphasis will be upon understanding this legal framework by also focusing on the legal principles and provisions related to crime, forms of crimes, elements of criminal liability, factors of criminalisation and procedure through which such crimes are regulated. The course will begin with the understanding of these principles which forms to be the basis for the criminal law framework of the country. Hence the course will make a student revisit into these core principles of criminal law such as – the elements of a crime, principles of causation and concurrence and other principles of criminal liability including joint liability while understanding related law framework. Once the principles are discussed the course progresses through the understanding of some of the important legal provisions from both the Criminal substantive as well as the Criminal Procedural Law. The procedural law will include an understanding of the institutional mechanism with which criminal justice system is administered in India apart from focusing on the procedure they adopt while functioning. The course understanding will include a comparative study of provisions from the Codes that applied until June 2024 [Indian Penal Code and Criminal Procedure Code] with the newly implemented laws – the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita]