Law and Literature

      — Siddhant Karki* In polished Oxfords,  I tread these shabby Kutchery halls alone, A silent vow that clings beneath my bone,  Where sunlight through these wide windows hardly falls,  A tattered curtain to tether, though time has bid it to depart.  I tell myself, I still have my moral oath to honour, “Justice and loyalty are mine to bear.” At Seventy-four, the ordinary tasks get difficult you see, I used to hurry these slopes downhill, Trying to reach before my Mentor,  Back when I was still Forty.  Britain & Brunei taught me well,  To serve as a Gorkha Soldier under Her Majesty,  It may have brought pride to many,  I am proud, please don’t get me wrong,  But I realised my hometown silently awaited me,  So I decided to take a self-imposed retirement, To be back to my hills, to my people, and of course back to my family. Maybe I’ll hang up my boots next year or so,  And decide to write more often,...

" Hyperboles employed in exchanges should not, without anything more, be glorified as an instigation to commit suicide." Section 306 IPC (108 BNS) envisages abetment to suicide and section 107 stipulates Abetment of a Things. The relevant section are reproduced herein: “306. Abetment of suicide  - If any person commits suicide, whoever abets the commission of such suicide, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.  107. Abetment of a thing —A person abets the doing of a thing, who— First.— Instigates any person to do that thing; or Secondly.— Engages with one or more other person or persons in any conspiracy for the doing of that thing, if an act or illegal omission takes place in pursuance of that conspiracy, and in order to the doing of that thing; or Thirdly.— Intentionally aids, by any act or illegal omission, the doing of that thing. Explanation 1.— A person who, by wilful misrepr...