The Delhi High Court has held that once final arguments in a criminal trial are concluded and the matter is reserved for judgment, the judge who heard the case is duty-bound to pronounce the verdict ...

Causing Death by Knowledge (Without Explicit Intent): A knows Z is hiding behind a bush. A convinces B to shoot at the bush to scare someone, knowing it is likely to kill Z. B shoots and kills Z. A is ...

In India, courts impose the death penalty only in the "rarest of rare" cases, as established in the landmark Bachan Singh v. State of Punjab (1980) case, by balancing aggravating circumstances ...