Volume : III, Issue : VI, June - 2013

Criminological Aspects of the Unsoundness of Mind of a Person in India

Dr. Sunil Kumar, Ms. Poonam Singhal

Abstract :

The word ‘insanity’, solely a sociological and medico–legal concept which is seen to be a social and medical inadequacy of a person to understand the nature and consequences of the act done by him. The Mens Rea i.e. an evil mind is one of the essentials of crime , there may be no crime without an evil mind and the concurrence of act and guilty mind constitutes a crime . But in the case of an insane person, who is incapable to understand the nature of the act, will not be punished because not having any guilty mind to commit the crime. In India, we bears the similarities in the criminal liability with the English law as having based on the McNaughton rules. The present paper, the will attempt to analyse the concept of insanity in criminological sense in the light of some statutory and judicial cannotations in Indian scenario.

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Dr. Sunil Kumar, Ms. Poonam Singhal Criminological Aspects of the Unsoundness of Mind of a Person in India Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.III, Issue.VI June 2013

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