Criminal
Criminal Law
Criminal Law is a law which is used in criminal court or session court to define criminal offences, regulate the charging and conduct the trial of the suspected person. Criminal Law defined by the statute and enacted by the legislature, and it varies from country to country and different from civil law. Before we dive into further let’s take a look in below terms:
- Criminal is a term used for a person who committed or involved in an act which is perceived as offences according to laws or traditions or both.
- Crime is an act, behavior, omission which is defined by law as deserving of punishment or rehabilitation. Many crimes require the element of intent and certain crimes committed based on strict liability even though the person have no intention of performing the criminal act. Crimes are considered in two types. First one is called “mala prohibita” (bad because prohibited) they are condemned by law but not consider as evil and second one is called “mala in se” (bad in themselves) they are considered inherently evil under general law standard.
There are some differences in term for criminal in different countries since same act is seem like offence in one country while not in other countries. But there are some common terms used in criminal in a legal sense include.
- The Criminal law,
- The Legal Process,
- The Criminal Procedure etc.
Objectives of Criminal Law
There are widely recognized five objectives for enforcing law and jurisdiction determine the value placed on each. These are:
- Retribution: Its main goal is to punish the criminals in some way. When an offender inflicts unfair treatment towards others, the criminal law will put the offender in some unpleasant disadvantages to balance the scale.
- Deterrence: Deterrence is aimed to impose a penalty to the offenders so that it may discourse them to commit crimes.
- Incapacitation: It’s aimed to protect citizens from the misconduct of the criminals by separating them from society. Its purpose is done by imprisonment, banishment and death penalty.
- Rehabilitation: It’s aimed towards transformation of a criminal to a valuable citizen so that it can prevent further crimes by convincing the criminals of their wrongdoing.
- Restoration: It’s combined with the main principle of criminal justice and civil law. Its main goal is to be returning the victim to its original position before inflicting injury.
The Penal Code (Bangladesh) is the official criminal law of Bangladesh. It is derived from British India and adopted on 06 October 1860. After partition it was known as The Pakistani Penal Code. It’s a legacy of Victorian era and had been amended many times with the latest being in 2004. It consists of 23 chapters and take effect on throughout Bangladesh. Fraud, Habeas Corpus, Anti-Corruption, Cyber Crime, Quashment Law, Child Abuse etc. are under criminal law.
Criminal Proceedings
Criminal Proceedings in Bangladesh are regulated by the code of criminal procedure, 1898 and it has four stages:
- Initial Stage: Initial Stages includes the following steps:
- FIR in cognizable offence.
- Complain in cognizable & non-cognizable offence.
- Investigation
- Charge Sheet or Final Report
- Naraji Petition
- Proceeding Stage: Proceeding Stage includes the following steps:
- Taking Cognizance
- Issuing Process
- Transfer of the Case
- Trail Stage: Trail Stage includes the following steps:
- Framing of Charge
- Plea & Conviction
- Hearing/Taking Evidence/Examination Etc.
- Judgment
- Post Trail State: Post Trail Stage includes the following Step:
- Execution of Sentence
Criminal Cases are tried before the Judicial Magistrate or the Session Judge court as per their nature and procedure.
- Trail by Magistrate:
- Section 241 of CrPC: Procedure in Cases.
- Section 241A of CrPC: When accused shall be discharged.
- Section 242 of CrPC: Charge to be framed.
- Section 243 of CrPC: Conviction on admission of truth of accusation
- Section 244 of CrPC: Procedure when no such admission is made.
- Section 245 of CrPC: Acquittal or Sentence
- Section 247 of CrPC: Non-appearance of Complainant
- Section 2418 of CrPC: Withdrawal of Complaint
Section 249 of CrPC: Power to stop proceedings when no complainant.
- Trail by Court of Session:
- Section 265A of CrPC: Trail to be conducted by Public Prosecutor
- Section 265B of CrPC: Opening Case for Prosecution
- Section 265C of CrPC: Discharge
- Section 265D of CrPC: Framing Charge
- Section 265E of CrPC: Conviction of Plea of Guilty
- Section 265F of CrPC: Date for prosecution evidence
- Section 265G of CrPC: Evidence of Prosecution
- Section 265H of CrPC: Acquittal
- Section 265I of CrPC: Entering upon Defense
- Section 265J of CrPC: Arguments
- Section 265K of CrPC: Judgment of Acquittal or Conviction
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