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• Doctrine of Res gestae as found under section 6 of The Indian Evidence Act, 1872. The term has Latin origin and it means things done or “actus”.
• The doctrine of Res gestae is portrayed under section 6 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 in the following words-

“Facts which though not in issue are so connected with the facts in issue so as to form a part of the same transaction, are relevant, whether they occurred at the same time and  place or at different times and places” – Section 6 of Indian Evidence Act, 1872.

• Res gestae, originally was used by the Romans to mean acts done or actus.
• The English and American writers described it as facts that form the same transaction. Res gestae are those facts which automatically or naturally form a part of the same transaction. They are the acts talking for themselves.
• Circumstantial facts are admitted as forming a part of res gestae i.e. it being a part of original proof of what has taken place. Statements may also accompany physical happenings like gestures. Things said or acts done in course of transaction amounts to res gestae.
• The statements made or an act done has to be spontaneous and simultaneous to the main transaction. Where time gap is enough for fabrication or concoction, then statement or act shall not fall under section 6.

Few Illustrations:

• The cry of an in injured or wounded person.
• The cry of witness on seeing a murder happening
• The sound of a bullet being shot.
• The cry for help by the person being attacked.
• Gestures made by the person dying etc.

According to Section 6 the facts forming a part of the same transaction may or may not occur at the same place or same time. For example in the case of Ratten v. Queen, 1972 the victim (wife) had called the police for help but before operator could connect her to the police, her call was disconnected. Later the police found her dead body from her house from where the call was made and the time of death and the time of phone call was almost the same. The call made to the police came under the purview of section 6 and thereby defeated the accused husband’s defence that he accidentally fired his wife.

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Few case laws covering various aspects of the principle of res gestae as envisaged under section 6:

• The act may not have occurred at the same place:

 In case of Ratten v. Queen, already discuss in above.

• The time gap should be very little OR contemporaneous so that there is no time to fabricate or make up a story:

 In case of Sukhar v. State of UP, 1972 the accused in this case shot the victim when he raised an alarm. On hearing the alarm the witness reached almost at the same time when the victim told that the accused at shot him. The victim did not die. The accused was charged with section 307 IPC, 1860. However during the trial the victim died for some other cause. Despite being hearsay evidence, the statement of the witness was held to be admissible as it formed a part of the same transaction. The event of the victim being shot and the witness being told by the victim about the accused was contemporaneous.

• Act of witness during the same time and same place where the offence was committed:

In case of Sawal Das v. State of Bihar,1974 the cry of the children from the house when their mother was being killed by their father became a part of the same transaction and therefore fell under section 6 and became admissible as valid evidence.

• Gestures made by the victim when dying:

 In case of Queen v. Abdullah, 1885 The gesture made by the victim who was dying, that the accused had killed her came under the purview of res gestae.

• When FIR becomes Res gestae:

In case of Shyam Nandan Singh v. State of Bihar, 1991 an FIR was lodged soon after the incident by persons who witnessed it. It was held to be a part of the happening so it came under the purview of section 6.

INTRODUCTION

• Police cross examination constitutes a vital piece of the current criminal equity framework. In spite of the fact that Confirming law.
• The Indian Evidence Act 1872 and Criminal Procedure Code 1973 don’t cast much weight on any announcement leaving an accused individual while cross examined by the police which in legitimate terms isn’t considered as an acceptable piece of confirmation according to Section 25(1) of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872.
• In any case police personals are applying third degree strategy to extricate statement which may encourage the examination.
• In India such affirmations are visit that they torture accused under guardianship to inspire confession booth articulation, however it is made to a magistrate and that legal officer needs to keep up some affability and take after the set request given under Cr.P.C. when recording confession booth explanation, however it is made to a magistrate and that legal officer needs to keep up some thoughtfulness and take after the set request given under Cr.P.C. when recording confession booth articulation of any person.

OBJECTIVE:

1. To study on confession and then it’s irrelevant.
2. To study on when confession proved to the police officers and its relevant.
3. To study on confession by accused while in custody of police where proved against him

INTERROGATION BY POLICE AND CONFESSIONS:

• The announcements made to the police are not conceded for the reasons for allowable bits of proof as can be followed from perusing Section 162(3) Of Cr. P.C with Section 25 of the Indian Evidence Act.
• Articulations to police not to be marked: Use of explanations in evidence. A plain perusing of segments 61 and 167 of the Cr.P.C. uncovers that the police investigation of the offences on account of a man captured without warrant ought to be completed in the principal case inside 24 hours under area 61 or if not then inside 15 days under segment 167.
• Any cop making an examination may look at orally any individual expected to be familiar with the actualities and conditions of the case, the finding can from that point be illustrated in composing however these statements aren’t to be marked by the creator of such proclamations under Segment 162 (2). Segment 161 (2) gives what civilities ought to be trailed by cop when making oral examination.
• A person during oral examination might will undoubtedly answer all inquiries identifying with the case put to him by the concerned cop, other than questions the responses to which would have a propensity to uncover him/her to a criminal allegation or to a punishment or relinquishment.
• Any statement made to a cop can’t be utilized for any reason for any request or trial in regard of any offence under scrutiny. This announcement might be used to contradict such witness. [Section 162 of the Cr.P.C]

CONFESSION IN POLICE CUSTODY:

• The Evidence Act gives a few shields with regards to the time when a man is interrogated by police. While cross examining speculate the scrutinising must not be coercive or excessively scary. The police ought not to remove confirmation or admission by third degree method.
• Explanation made to cop by the accused isn’t allowable in confirm aside from that piece of the announcement which drives to discovery of implicating material.
• The alert with regards to the suitability of confession made to a cop is proposed to secure the denounced individual against third degree method by the police. The proving law is clear in that an admission made to a cop isn’t permissible, yet it can be utilized as a part of confirmation of the thing recuperated as a result of the admission made to a cop by the charged.
• In this way if a weapon utilized in a number of cases is recuperated by the police because of admission made by a blamed individual, the recuperation is a pertinent bit of confirmation. In this manner it neither would nor not be right to say that the arrangements of the Evidence Act unmistakably censure the police and don’t keep trust on them.
• In the event that we read together the arrangements of the Constitution and the Evidence Act, the message is clear. There is no command under the plan of the Constitution and Evidence Act that a man can be undermined, tormented or any route controlled to extract any sort of explanation which has implicating sway on the arrested or blamed individual.
• In any case, the miserable and the awful piece of the story is that despite the arrangements of the Constitution and Evidence Act, Police is applying third degree strategy, which renders the authentication of a genuine and bona fide admission by the blamed, the observers under suspicion and the whole criminal procedures under legal displays.
• The practicality of Indian Prisons and Police custodial torment has turned out to be endemic to the point that consistently numerous individuals kicked the bucket of or seriously harmed of police torment.
• In view of different reasons third degree strategy is by and by. In any case solidified lawbreakers have some training to survive extreme treatment thus; police can’t extricate data from them without the guide of third degree technique.
• This implies a huge level of confession booth explanations that are made will be made automatic out of the extraordinary pressure that is forced behind the bars or while in police guardianship.
• Other than this admissions of the witnesses additionally continue changing by the impact and the circuitous weight that the criminals or denounced in the prominent cases can practice by goodness of their high societal position.
• Secondly, police captures a few people and undermines to torment or torment them as a result of inspiring cash and numerous pure individuals on premise of constrained Confessions are arrested by police and rebuffed by the courts. This sort of affirmation has been frequently leveled against police.
• Thirdly, normal people have some average ethos with reference to how criminals should be dealt with by the police. An extensive area of police intensely consider that police can’t be successful on the off chance that they do not take depend on extreme treatment against solidified criminals.
• Fourthly, criminal equity arrangement of the Indian sub-mainland depends on the Anglo-Saxon accusatorial framework under which the focal point of the legal isn’t on truth, yet on proof and this makes the ‘Confessionary Statements’ to be conceded as-evidence as critical in Criminal Adjudication.

RECORDING OF STATEMENT:

• The law gives that the confession both explanation should be recorded “either in writing or any mechanical or electronic gadget like tapes, tapes or soundtracks from out of which sound or pictures can be repeated” (Sec.32 (1) POTA).
• This is the verbatim replication of the applicable arrangement in the TADA Act (Section 15 (1)), except for the expansion of the word ‘electronic’. As indicated by both these arrangements just police officers not bring down in rank than a Superintendent of Police can record the admission.

OTHER CONSIDERATION:

• These procedural shields don’t deplete the security offered to the accused. Though custodial admissions are allowable in prove, it is still for the court to decide on its worthiness or evidentiary or probative esteem.
• Under the appropriate, be that as it may, the evidentiary estimation of custodial admissions is held to be unimpeachable.
• It was frequently contended that a confession booth proclamation being recorded by a cop is a powerless sort of confirmation and should dependably be authenticated before basing a conviction.
• In a progression of cases, the Supreme Court has held that once the confessional statement is observed to be intentional and honest, it ends up substantive confirmation and does not require any validation, and the creator of an admission can be sentenced on such uncorroborated admission.

INCREASING VULNERABILITY TO CUSTODIAL TORTURE:

• As a signatory to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, in human or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, India has resolved to not do anything that is inconsistent with its protest and reason.
• The denial of torment is total and may not be suspended regardless of how deplorable the wrongdoing for which somebody has been arrested, even in circumstances of crisis .
• However there is little uncertainty that torment and other pitiless, cruel and degrading treatment keep on being endemic all through India. Incomparable Court requests, NHRC guideline and authority sanctions have not discouraged authorities from exacting torment on individuals in their guardianship. The Mali math Committee’s suggestions talked about beneath may additionally build powerlessness to torment.

CONFESSION UNDER MEDIA TRIAL:

• While shedding the worn out old cover of bookkeeping proof the Courts in India have as of late begun perceiving the significance of confession booth statements made in media.
• The Supreme Court included another, and noteworthy, part to the conservative criminal statute and given a part to the media in criminal trials by ruling that meetings given by a denounced to TV channels could be thought about proof by courts.

CONCLUSION:

• On a closing note it is well-suited to express that the significance of confession can never be undermined for the reasons for a criminal trial. Admission under the Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 has numerous features to it.
• It has a key an incentive in the Criminal Justice System, and in this manner the sacredness of the validness of confessionary explanations be kept up and the consistent procedure of evolvement of new structures and components of remembering confessionary confirm, might well be adjusted in the standard arrangements of the current Procedural laws and the whole evidential law in the nation.

• In India, the significance and the holy of the admission is all the more vital for the reason that the Law implementing office is the same as the examining office is both vested in the police.
• So now and again the over energy and the tension of the police agency is reflected in their curse of intense means and falling back to the utilization of third degree violence for the reasons for the withdrawing and drawing out the admission out of the accused people in authority or the one’s gone up against police remand.

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As per Hindu orthodox view, there was an inseperable relationship between law and dharma. Sources of law & dharma are common; Manu said four dharmas are sources of law also.

• Vedas
• Smritis
• Approved usages & what is agreeable to one’s conscience.

There are two kinds of sources of law:-

1. Ancient Sources
   Shruti’s
   Smritis
   Commentaries & digests
   Customs
2.  Modern Sources
   Judicial decision
   Legislation
   Justice, equity & good conscience.

1. Ancient Sources:-

a. Shruti’s– It stands for what has been heared. General speaking shruti’s contain the words of God which came down to us through the seers ans sages. These shruti’s include uprishadas constitute complete codes of spritual learning which are helpful in attainment of salvation.

The following are the four vedas-
i. Rigveda– Rigveda distinguish itself for its jurisprudential value. It deals with duties of king. (1st Shruti’s)(songs)
ii. Yajurveda– (ritual, sacrifices, mantras)
iii. Samveda– (prayers composed in mantras & set to music)
iv. Atharveda– (magic, spells & incantations)

Next to vedas, six vedangas in its development process-
Kalpa, vyakarna, chhanda, shiksha, jyotish, nirukta. A mantra is a scared prayer addressed to any deity.

     b. Smritis– It means what has been remembered.
     Recollection of human mind put in a consolidated form. The rules of law laid down in these     smritis are not controversial and their superiority is not doubted by anyone.

It is of two types:-
i. Primary– (written in prose style like manu, narada, yajnavalkya, vishu, brishaspah, katyayam). Those smritis are in Sholokas are known as Dharmsastras.

ii. Secondary- (latter works)

• Smritis are foundation of hindu law. Justically, they occupy an important position.
• Yajnawalkya smriti also contains the rule of procedure and evidence to be followed in civil disputes.
• Next important smriti is that of Narada, it acknowledges that his work is an abridgment of the larger work of manu. He over-emphasized the importance of customs.
• Another important contribution of narada smriti has been the recognition of the authority of king made laws.
• Arthashastra: It was written during the period of Chandragupta Maurya. It is of no less importance in the history of legal developing in India.
  The exclusive & systematic treatment of law was a distinct achievement of Arthashastra as against the foregoing Dharmasatras.

    c. Commentaries & digests:- Besides comment digests are also prepared which collected all the available texts of law on certain points at one place and gave concrete means to ascertain the law.
The commentaries are-

• Asahaya on narada (7^th century)
• Viswarupa on yajnavalkya (8^th century)
• Mednatithi on manu (9^th century).

1. Mitakshra-   
2. Commentary on yajnavalkya & command reverence.
3. Author- Vijyaneshwar published throughout India except Bengal.
4. Several commentaries were later written on it.

1. Dayabhag-
2. Commentary in Bengal.
3. Deals with laws of inheritance & partition.
4. Under this property goes to heirs through succession.

Conflicts of law in textas-

• At the tym of conflict in text of shruti & smriti, the text of shruti was authoritative.
• Dharmashastras & widely accepted practices were superior to Arthshastra.
• At present common & digest have been assigned superior authority because they though profersing to interpret smritis have consider modified the old view; according with the views of writer and according to change of time.
  d. Custom- The Hindu law attributes great importance to custom, because the king was excepted to adjudge the dispute. Acc. To custom, the custom could pre-dominate the law made by the king.

In a ways, conducts which people feel obligatory to practice.

• Modern Sources:-

1. Judicial  Decision: Decision propounded by courts upon various points have also developed as source of law. All important points found in the law reports. The decision of privy council, Supreme Court, High Court constitute precedents to become important source of law.
2. Legisltaion: The legislation have the effect of reforming the law & in certain repects have superseded the textual law. The important legislations which have modified, altered & supplement the hindu law are as follows-
3. The caste disabilities removal act, 1850

[Person renouncing his religion not deprived of his rights of inheritance].

• The hindu widow’s remarriage act 1856

[show rights & disabilities on re-marriage]

• The special marriage act, 1872

[Marriage b/w persons having different castes & different religion]

• The guardian & wards act, 1890

[Appointment of guardian foe welfare of minors]

• The Indian succession act, 1925

[Modified law relating to wills]

• The hindu marriage act, 1955

[Related to marriage b/w hindus, including jain, sikh and Buddhists].

• Prohibition of child marriage act, 2006
• Indian contract act, 1872.

• Law as understood by the hindus is a branch of Dharma an expression which signifies duty.

• In the earliest development during the Rigvedic Period, law was looked upon as symbolical of not only legal provisions but also of social order.

• In samveda law has been attributed with divine origin. It is said to have been created by God, by nature and by the spirit of the people. Law is not ‘made’ but ‘exists’ within and is born with the people.

• In Vedic Period, law was conceived of as existing to satisfy a paramount social need of general security. With the human relations becoming more & more complex in the society, diversity grew in greater degree and accordingly need was felt to discover certain forces which could hold the social relationship firm. Law came to serve that end.

• The author of Uprishad declares law to be more powerful than the power itself. In his opinion, law exists independent of any sovereign and is above the sovereign.

APPLICATION OF HINDU LAW-

Persons to whom Hindu Law applies-

1. Hindu by birth
2. Hindu by religion [converts to hinduism]
3. Illegitimate children where both parents are hinndus
4. Illegitimate children where father is a christian and mother is hindu and the children are brought up as hindus.

• If a parent belonging to twiceborn class inducts the child into a Hindu Family and brings him up as such, then the statute invests him with the status of a hindus and recognises him as a Hindu.

People who have changed religion- Where a hindu converts to Mohammedanism he will be, as a general rule, governed by the Mohammendan law. But a custom in the case of such converts follow their old law inn matters of succession & inheritance.

Persons to whom Hindu Law does not apply-

1. Illegitimate child, like that Hindu Father & Christian Mother and that child brought up in Christians.
   An example, Mohammendan Father & Hindu Mother and child also brought up in muslim.
2. Hindu converts to christianity.
3. To descendants of Hindus who have formed themselves into a distinct community with a Pecular religion and usages so different from principle of Shastras that community be regarded as outside Hinduism.
4. To convert hindu to mohammedan faith.

Extent of the application of Hindu Law-
As administered by court to all hindus with some alterations and modifications.
General Rule-
To all hindus in-
1. Inheritance
2. Religious Usages
Some others-
By virtue of express legislation on the principle of equity, justice.
Such matters are-
1. adoption, maintenance, marriage, succession, minority & guardianship.
2. family relations, wills, gifts.

Not only Hindu Law, all laws applied on Hindus.

Introduction:

The purpose of ascertaining the extent of damage or loss caused by the worker, the employer has to give a notice of the proposed forfeiture to the worker. Where no such notice was given, it was held that the matter required reconsideration. Gratuity cannot be forfeited unless quantum of loss or damage has been ascertained. In case of Bakshish Singh v. Darshan Engineering Works,1994 it was held that provision of a period of five years service as qualifying period in section 4(1)(b) is one of minimum service conditions made available to workers notwithstanding financial capacity of employer to bear its burden and it is reasonable restriction on the right of the employer to carry on business within the meaning of Article 19 of the Constitution and section 4(1)(b) of the gratuity Act is legal and valid. Even assuming that the presumption that a longer period of service for entitlement to gratuity on voluntary retirement or resignation is necessary to prevent labour from changing employment frequently that consideration has no bearing on the question whether a short period of qualifying service is violated of Article 19(1)(g) of the Constitution. Hence, the provision for a short qualifying period per se is not invalid and cannot be struck down generally as being violated of Article 19(1) (g) of the Constitution. There is no provision in the Act for exempting any factory, shop etc. from the purview of the Act covered by it except those where, the employees are in receipt of gratuity or the benefits of pension fund which are no less favorable than the benefit conferred under the Act. Payment of Gratuity Act is a welfare measure introduced in the interest of the general public to secure social and economic justice to workmen to assist them in old age and to ensure them a decent standard of life on their retirement. The Act imposed a reasonable restriction on the employer in respect of the fundamental right under Article 19(1) (g). The provision for payment of gratuity contained in section 4(1) (b) of the Gratuity Act is one of the minimum service conditions which must be made available to the employees notwithstanding financial capacity of employer to bear its burden and it is reasonable restriction on the right of the employer to carry on business within the meaning of Article 19 of the Constitution and section 4(1)(b) of the Act is legal and valid.

Background: The Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 applies to establishments employing 10 or more persons.  The main purpose for enacting this Act is to provide social security to workman after retirement, whether retirement is a result of superannuation, or physical disablement or impairment of vital part of the body.  Therefore, the Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 is an important social security legislation to wage earning population in industries, factories and establishments. The present upper ceiling on gratuity amount under the Act is Rs. 10 Lakh. The provisions for Central Government employees under Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972 with regard to gratuity are also similar.  Before implementation of 7th Central Pay Commission, the ceiling under CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972 was Rs. 10 Lakh.  However, with implementation of 7th Central Pay Commission, in case of Government servants, the ceiling has been raised to Rs. 20  Lakhs. Therefore, considering the inflation and wage increase even in case of employees engaged in private sector, this Government decided that the entitlement of gratuity should also be revised in respect of employees who are covered under the Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972.  Accordingly, the Government initiated the process for amendment to Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 to increase the maximum limit of gratuity to such amount as may be notified by the Central Government from time to time. Now, the Government has issued the notification specifying the maximum limit to Rs. 20 Lakh. In addition, the Bill also envisages to amend the provisions relating to calculation of continuous service for the purpose of gratuity in case of female employees who are on maternity leave from ‘twelve weeks’ to ‘such period as may be notified by the Central Government from time to time’.  This period has also been notified as twenty six weeks.

Implication of Gratuity: The Payment of Gratuity (Amendment) Bill, 2018 has been passed by Lok Sabha on 15th March, 2018 and by the Rajya Sabha on 22nd March, 2018, has been brought in force on 29th March, 2018.
Major Impact:  The Bill as passed by both the Houses of Parliament and assented to by the Hon’ble President and notified by the Government. This will ensure harmony among workers in the private sector and in Public Sector Undertakings/ Autonomous Organizations under Government who are not covered under CCS (Pension) Rules. These employees will be entitled to receive higher amount of gratuity at par with their counterparts in Government sector.

Essential Evaluation:

Some evaluation arises which we have discussed in detail:

1. Need of awareness: The need to create awareness of socio-economic legislation or to publicize it is hardly realized. Many employees are not aware for the gratuity. Because they do not know the statutory right of gratuity.
2. Gratuity payable towards surety: The payment of gratuity is not absolute right since it can be forfeited on dismissal of the workman as per the provisions of section 4(6) of the Act. Even gratuity can’t be attached against a decree as passed by the Civil Court. Hence such a surety will not be justifiable.
3. Gratuity to curtail employee: Gratuity is payable to an employee on termination of his employment under section 2(oo) of industrial disputes act. The definition is framed in widest terms except for obsoleteness any termination of service would amount to retrenchment for the purpose of the act. In case of State of Punjab v. Labour court, Jullundur & Ors, 1979   Supreme Court was held that retrenchment of worker will fall within the scope of section 4(1) of the act and a retrenched worker will be entitled to gratuity.
4. Government servant designate to gratuity: The government servants are not covered under this act. The Supreme Court observed that section 2(3) of Payment Gratuity Act,1972 which defines employee where it is specifically provided that employee does not include any such person who holds a post under Central Government or State Government. This act does not provide the gratuity of government servant.
5. Director of a company designate to gratuity: The definition of employee does not spell out as director of a company is an employee or not. It depends upon the functions of the director of company. If he performing his duties for the company then he can come within the definition.
6. Payment of gratuity if there is no recommendation: In case of death of an employee the gratuity payable to the employee shall be paid to his nominee. If no recommendation has been made the same shall be payable to nominee and where any such nominee is a minor then the share of such minor shall be deposited with the controlling authority who shall invest the same for the benefit of such minor in such bank until the minor attains majority.
7. Re-employed employee after obsoleteness: The act should be providing a provision that employee can re-employed after obsoleteness but the act does not provide re-employed to employee after obsoleteness. In case of Jeewanlal ltd. v Controlling Authority, The Madras HC was held that if an employee having been obsoleteness is reemployed by the employer without any break in service he will be able for payment of gratuity.

Conclusion:
The problem of Gratuity is not a problem in or by itself. It is a part of the larger issue of welfare of the nation as a whole. Besides the several failures of implementation of the Act, there is many issues find that there are also some obstacles to enforce the Act, which we have discussed in essential evaluation in detail. The main reason of the Gratuity is the extreme form of poverty. The State administration has not bothered much about the welfare of the poor employees. No sincere efforts have been made for identifying and protecting them. It seems that this situation will go on in the same way unless some concerted efforts are made in the direction. It is submitted that the media and other non-governmental organisations can play a vital role in exposing this state of in human activity.

The following measures can be adopted in this regard:

• Public awareness and education is must.
• Generating schemes must be formulated in advance otherwise they will again fall back upon the system of Gratuity.

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— Oscar Wilde.

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