Family Settlement : Its legal Status

Posted inProperty & Succession
A family settlement is an agreement mutually worked out by a settler among his family or by family members among themselves as to how the common property should be distributed and hold separately in accordance with the agreement. It settles the division or distribution of common property that the family members already own as a common property. It can be used to dispose of a self-acquired property in consideration of marriage or for any charitable or religious purpose.

All about First Information Report (FIR)

Posted inCriminal Laws & Procedures
The First Information Statement (FIS) or First Information Report (FIR) has not been defined in the Criminal Procedural Code, 1973 (CrPC). FIS is commonly understood as the information received by the police about commission of a crime and recorded under section 154(1) of the CrPC. In fact, it is the information of a crime reported to the police, first in point of time.  

Discharge of an Accused u/s 227 CrPC

Posted inCriminal Laws & Procedures
The usual procedure in a criminal case is that if the police investigation shows there is a prima facie criminal offence against the accused, then a Final Police Report (Charge Sheet/Challan) is filed. The accused is then subjected to the next stage of framing of charges against him, by the court. However, the court can discharge the accused person before it frames the charges against him, if no offence is prima facie made out.