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Assault

Assault [fr. salire, Lat., to leap; saillir, assaillir, Fr., to assai]; … law means, an attempt to commit battery, requiring the specific intent to cause physical injury, Black Law Dictionary 7th Edn., p.

Aggravated assaults

Aggravated assaults, 'Aggravated' means aggravated in respect of violence, not by reason … severe, such as the use of a deadly weapon, the intent to commit another crime, or the intent to cause serious

Rape

all events, and notwithstanding any resistance on her part. Indecent assaults are often magnified into attempts at rape. In order to … In order to find an accused guilty of an attempt with intent to commit a rape, court has to be satisfied that

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Modesty

s. 354, IPC are as under: (i) that the person assaulted must be a woman; (ii) that the accused must have … used on the woman intending thereby to outrage her modesty. Intention is not the sole criterion of the offence punishable under

Cruelty

a wife whose husband has been convicted of an aggravated assault upon her, or has been guilty of persistent cruelty to … SCC 22 (29). [Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, s. 13(1)(1a)] The intentional and indicious infliction of mental or physical suffering on a

battery

drug) that is not consented to by the victim compare assault aggravated battery : criminal battery that is accompanied by aggravating … beat, from Latin battuere] : the crime or tort of intentionally or recklessly causing offensive physical contact or bodily harm (as

Battery

a criminal by the proper officer, or that the prosecutor assaulted or beat the defendant first, and that the defendant committed … 7th Edn., p. 146. Means the crime or tort of intentionally or recklessly causing offensive physical contact or bodily harm (as

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