Crimino-Vision Events

On 17th January 2022, the Department of Criminology held a webinar on the Organizational Set-up of criminal courts and their powers as under Cr.P.C. at around 4.30 p.m. via Google meet application for the III B.A. Criminology students.

The guest lecturer was Advocate Kishan who is currently practicing in Mangalore District Court.

He began by introducing us to the Hierarchy of courts in general, which were Supreme Court, High Court & District Court listed in descending order of their power.

Advocate Kishan described the three most important legislations concerned with Criminal law which are, Code of Criminal Procedure (Cr.P.C.), the Indian Penal Code (IPC), and the Indian Evidence Act. He mentioned that IPC is substantial law, that is it explains what to do, what an offense is, how an offense occurred, and in case of its occurrence what is the punishment to be given.

Cr. P.C is a Procedural law, meaning it will tell if an offense has occurred how to catch the accused or how to go about with the trial or procedures relating to the arrest of accused, bail, FIR etc. Indian Evidence Act is both Procedural and substantial law. The Indian Evidence Act, originally passed in India by the Imperial Legislative Council in 1872, during the British Raj, contains a set of rules and allied issues governing the admissibility of evidence in the Indian courts of law.

Advocate Kishan then explained the Court proceedings for criminal trials. He went on to speak about the Mahazar witnesses who are two outsiders in whose presence the investigating officers search, arrest, seize, record, and collect witnesses and evidence.

He then went on to explain Sections 436, 437 & 438 of Cr.P.C.

He concluded his session by expressing his gratitude to Ms. Sarik Ankitha, Head of the Department of Criminology, and Ms. Am,ritha Shetty, Assistant Professor of Department of Criminology and Mr. Ganesh Nayak.

Ms. Sarik Ankitha gave her thanks to the guest lecturer for sharing his valuable knowledge.

The session was insightful, interesting and gave practical knowledge on the working of the courts in India. He was very clear in his explanation and was receptive to queries. He also kept his talk concise and understandable.

The Final year students were grateful for the opportunity to learn from an experienced Advocate working in the field of law. The total number of participants in this session was 55.