Showing posts with label law and order. Show all posts
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Friday, February 19, 2010

Is India & Indians ready for death penelty for extreme crimes?

 


 

Crimes of Endangering Public Security 

1. Committing arson, causing a breach to a dam or dyke, causing explosions, spread poison that inflicts serious injury or death on people or causes heavy losses of public or private property by other dangerous means. 

2. Sabotaging any means of transport, transportation facility, electric power facility, gas facility, or inflammable or explosive equipment, thereby causing serious consequences to the exchequer. 

3. Any hijacker who causes serious injury to or death of any other person or serious damage to any aircraft, sea-craft, railway and road vehicle. 

4. Illegally manufacturing, trading, transporting, mailing or storing any firearms, guns, ammunition or explosives. 

5. Stealing or attempting to steal any guns, ammunition or explosives. 

6. Theft of any guns, ammunition or explosives or attempt to steal any guns, ammunition or explosives from Police, members of the Armed forces, or the Para- military. 

7. Producing or selling fake medicines that cause death or especially serious harm to human health. 

8. Whoever mixes the foods that is produced or sold with toxic or harmful non-food raw materials or knowingly sells such foods that cause death or especially serious harm. Crimes of Smuggling 

9. Smuggling weapons, ammunition, nuclear materials or counterfeit currency into or out of the country. 

10. Smuggling cultural relics, gold, silver or other precious metals, the export of which is forbidden by the State, or precious and rare species of wildlife as well as the products thereof, the import and export of which are forbidden by the State, under all circumstances. 

Crimes of Disrupting the Financial Administration 

11. Whoever counterfeits currencies and 

      (a) Being a ringleader of a gang engaged in counterfeiting currencies, 

      (b) Having counterfeited currencies in especially huge, amounts; or 

      (c) Being involved in other especially serious matters of counterfeiting. Crimes of  Financial Fraud 

12. Whoever, for the purpose of illegal possession, raises funds by means of fraud 

13. Whoever commits fraud by means of financial bills in any of the following ways 

      (d) Knowingly using forged or altered bills of exchange, promissory notes or cheques; 

      (e) Knowingly using invalidated bills of exchange, promissory notes or cheques; 

      (f) Illegally using another's bills of exchange, promissory notes or cheques; 

      (g) Signing and issuing a invalid cheque or a cheque on which the signature is not in conformity with the reserved specimen signature, in order to defraud money or property; or 

      (h) Signing or issuing bills of exchange or promissory notes without funds as a guaranty, in the capacity of a drawer, falsely specifying the particulars thereon at the time of issue, in order to defraud money or property. 

14. Whoever commits fraud by means of a letter of credit in any of the following manner: 

      (i) Using a forged or altered letter of credit or any of its attached bills or documents; 

      (j) Using an invalidated letter of credit; 

      (k) Fraudulently obtaining a letter of credit; or 

      (l) In any other ways. ... AND if the amount involved is especially huge, and especially heavy losses are caused to the interests of the Nation and the people. 

15. Whoever, falsely makes out invoices for value-added tax or any other invoices to defraud a tax refund for exports or to offset tax money, thus causing especially heavy losses to the interests of the Nation. 

16. Whoever, forges or sells forged special invoices for value-added tax, so that economic order is seriously disrupted. Crimes of Infringing Upon Citizens' Right of the Individual and Democratic Rights 

17. Intentionally commits homicide. 

18. Intentionally inflicting injury upon another person or, by resorting to especially cruel means, causes severe injury to the person, reducing the person to utter disability. 

19. Raping a woman or has sexual intercourse with a girl under the age of 16 in any of the following circumstances: 

      (m) The circumstances being flagrant; 

      (n) Raping a number of women or girls under the age of 16; 

      (o) Raping a woman of any age before the public in a public place; 

      (p) Raping a woman of any age by one or more persons in succession; or 

      (q) Causing serious injury or death to the victim of rape or other serious consequences. 

20. Kidnapping and unlawfully detaining another person or unlawfully depriving the personal freedom of another person by any other means AND if causing injury, disability or death to the victim by violence. 

21. Unlawfully detaining or confines another person in order to get payment of a ransom does the same in (20) 

22. Where a functionary of a government department commits any of the crimes mentioned above. 

23. Kidnapping another person for the purpose of extorting money or property or as a hostage. 

24. Abducting and trafficking in a woman or child AND if the circumstances are especially serious beyond the following: 

     (r) Being a ringleader of a gang engaged in abducting and trafficking in women and children; 

     (s) Abducting and trafficking in three or more women and/or children; (t) Raping the woman who is abducted and trafficked in; 

     (u) Enticing or forcing the woman who is abducted and trafficked in to engage in prostitution, or selling such woman to any other person who would force her to engage in prostitution; 

     (v) Kidnapping a woman or child by means of violence, coercion or anesthesia for the purpose of selling the victim; 

     (w) Stealing a baby or an infant for the purpose of selling the victim; 

     (x) Causing serious injury or death to the woman or child who is abducted and trafficked in or to her or his relatives or any other serious consequences; or 

     (y) Selling a woman or a child out of the territory of India. 

Other 

• Illegally selling or transferring weapons or equipment of the armed forces. 

• Any serviceman who, during wartime, cruelly injures innocent residents in an area of military operation or plunders their money or property. 

• All foreign nationals transporting into India weapons of warfare and those foreign nationals who enter India to conduct war or plan to conduct war against the Nation.

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