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How does India Decide Insanity Pleas? A Review of High Court Judgments in the Past Decade

BACKGROUND: The Section 84 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) describes how Indian courts have to deal with ‘the act of an unsound person’. This study was undertaken with the objectives of estimating the success rate of insanity pleas in Indian High Courts and determining the factors associated with the...

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Autores principales: Ramamurthy, Parthasarathy, Chathoth, Vijay, Thilakan, Pradeep
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6436411/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30983663
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/IJPSYM.IJPSYM_373_18