Criminal Law

Indian Criminal Law defines the framework of legal system to recognise offense and crime, categorize them based on the severity and decide the punishment or fine for it.

Criminal law present in societies all over world defines rules and regulation to deal with people deviating from normal acceptable behaviour, or people performing an act or exhibiting behaviour that may harm someone or society in general.

Words ‘crime’ or ‘offense’, induce a baggage of social stigma to people involved in such cases. However, we believe in conducting the criminal law practice to guide people or entities involved with nitty-gritty of law and drive towards the logical solution to help get justice delivered in timely manner.

Criminal law is structured into three major acts

Indian Penal Code, as a comprehensive code which defines all offences recognised by Indian Legal system, in short, the list of ‘what not to do and what could make one liable & penalize for doing it

Code of Criminal Procedure, stating the procedure to handle investigation of crime and way of dealing with people involved in the act of crime. It is the entire comprehensive procedure whereby offenders are brought to books. From investigation to conviction.

And, Indian Evidence Act to decide on the acceptability of evidence which is core in concluding the decision in any matter. It is the law of proof.

Apart from these major acts there are multiple additional acts included in Criminal law such as The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, The Food Safety and Standards Act, Dowry Prevention act, Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act, (MCOCA), Indian Arms Act, etc, to name a few.

We have carved a niche with specialised practice of admiralty law and expertise in handling criminal cases. This unique combination has earned us the role of Special Public Prosecutor for State of Maharashtra in ongoing Somalian Pirates case, world’s largest trial against the notorious Somalian pirates. The same is also the fastest conducted trial. Our extensive work in criminal law ranges from cases into maritime piracy to Maharashtra Protection of Interest of Depositors Act(MPID), money laundering, Anti corruption and other generic criminal cases.