AN ANALYSIS OF ATTEMPT UNDER PENAL LAWS

Authors: ADITYA RAJ PANDEY, Student of SYMBIOSIS LAW SCHOOL, HYDERABAD

Best Citation – ADITYA RAJ PANDEY, AN ANALYSIS OF ATTEMPT UNDER PENAL LAWS, Indian Journal of Legal Review (IJLR), 3 (1) of 2023, Pg. 100-105, ISSN – 2583-2344.

ABSTRACT

Attempt, an offence and now a days very debatable topic as well. The main debate is to decide the punishment for the attempt, as it is also considered as a crime under Indian penal Code. Attempt is a an inchoate crime whose literal meaning is those crimes or wrongs which is just started or it is in budding stage only. By adding some more to inchoate crimes, we can say that it can be left unfinished or just incomplete. Now, as we all know that everything which is wrongful or which violates any law is a punishable and hence we called it as a crime. With the objective to tackle the rate of crimes and hence to lowered it, we passed and enacted some set of rules and regulations by the name of Indian Penal Code. These set of rules was passed during the pre independence period and since then we are applying IPC to punish the wrongdoers. Indian Penal Code contains different punishments for various different crimes but there are always some dilemmas when it comes to attempt to commit any crime. Attempt in general sense, it the efforts we made for the completion of any work. In this research paper, we try to define attempt in the better manner and also try to study on attempt in the more thorough and comprehensive way possible. 

Keywords – Inchoate Crimes, Attempt, Mens Rea, Actus Reus.