Murder trial : Punishment and procedure

Contents:
Murder Trial-Punishment and procedure;
Part I-Offence of Murder;
Chapter 1. Criminal jurisprudence;
Chapter 2. Certain words and terms commonly used in reference to murder trial and other important issues;
Chapter 3. Culpable homicide, genocide and honour killing;
Chapter 4. Decriminalization of attempt to suicide;
Chapter 5. Death-Civil consequences;
Chapter 6. Death-Its medico-legal aspects;
Chapter 7. Offence of dowry killing-penological perspectives;
Chapter 8. Points requiring proof-tenets and tips;
Chapter 9. Capital offences-Vicarious or constructive liability;
Chapter 10. Homicides-forms, degrees and descriptions;

Part II-Offence under section 299, IPC;
Chapter 1. Culpable homicide-definition, meaning and interpretation;
Chapter 2. Punishment for culpable homicide;

Part III-Murder and its definition;
Chapter 1. Intention;
Chapter 2. Bodily injury;
Chapter 3. "Sufficient in the ordinary course of nature";
Chapter 4. Imminently dangerous act;
Chapter 5. Exceptions;
Chapter 6. Murder with common intention/common object;
Chapter 7. Weapon of attack;
Chapter 8. Medical report and burn injury;
Chapter 9. Charge and duty of prosecution;
Chapter 10. Appreciation of evidence;

Part IV-General defences;
Chapter 1. Penal pharmacopoeia;

Part V-On proof and punishment;
Chapter 1. Matter of proof;
Chapter 2. Lack of proof-sentence set aside;
Chapter 3. No explanation of injuries-conviction proper;
Chapter 4. Punishment under section 302 read with section 34/149;
Chapter 5. Identification and punishment;
Chapter 6. Motive and punishment;
Chapter 7. "Rarest of rare"-Formula and punishment;
Chapter 8. Weak evidence/contradiction in evidence/benefit of doubt/acquittal;
Chapter 9. Sufficient proof of lacking-conviction altered;
Chapter 10. Dying declaration-confession and punishment;
Chapter 11. Delay in lodging FIR;
Chapter 12. Principle and punishment;
Chapter 13. Conviction proper-appeal dismissed;
Chapter 14. Eye-witness account and punishment;
Chapter 15. Circumstantial evidence;
Chapter 16. Independent evidence;
Chapter 17. Presumption and probabilities in case of punishment;
Chapter 18. Sentence;
Chapter 19. miscellaneous;

Part VI-Punitive perspectives;
Chapter 1. Abolition of capital punishment-desirability of;
Chapter 2. Execution of death penalty;

Part VII-Inquiry trial and other procedural issues;
Chapter 1. Inquiry and trial;
Chapter 2. Trial before a court of session;
Chapter 3. Procedural requirement;
Chapter 4. Dowry death;
Chapter 5. Bail and bonds;

Part VIII-Notable murder trials;
Index.