Question: Indian Penal Code (IPC) was established under which act of British India? a) Charter Act of 1833 OR b) Pitts India Act
Answer: Charter Act of 1833.
Quote:
As this Act was also intended to provide for an extension of the royal charter granted to the East India Company, it is also called the Charter Act of 1833. ... It ended the activities of the British East India Company as a commercial body and it became a purely administrative body.
Long title: An Act for effecting an Arrangement ...
Royal assent: 28 August 1833
Repealed by: Government of India Act 1915
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Indian Penal Code (IPC):
- The Indian Penal Code (IPC) is the official criminal code of India. It is a comprehensive code intended to cover all substantive aspects of criminal law.
- The code was drafted in 1860 on the recommendations of first law commission of India established in 1834 under the Charter Act of 1833 under the Chairmanship of Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay.
- The IPC replaced Mohammedan Criminal Law, which had a very close relationship with Islam.
- It was the first codification of criminal law in the British Empire.
- IPC is also the longest serving criminal code in the world.
- Even though the IPC has been amended more than 75 times, India did not undertake any comprehensive revision based on the recommendations made in the 42nd Law Commission Report in 1971.
- Most amendments have been ad hoc, in response to immediate circumstances in IPC.
- In 2016, the Home Ministry had proposed insertion of two stricter anti-racial discrimination provisions in the IPC. The two amendments were: Section 153A and Section 509A that deal with racially motivated crimes.
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Macaulay and the Indian Penal Code of 1862: The Myth of the Inherent Superiority and Modernity of the English Legal System Compared to India's Legal System in the Nineteenth Century
David Skuy
Modern Asian Studies
Vol. 32, No. 3 (Jul., 1998), pp. 513-557 (45 pages)
Published By: Cambridge University Press
https://www.jstor.org/stable/313159