Corporate Crime and Sentencing in India: Required Amendments in Law

Angira Singhvi

National Law University, Jodhpur, India

Abstract:

This paper details out the framework of corporate criminal liability and sentencing. The law has bound the courts to impose only fine as a form of punishment for corporate which needs to be solved by evolving and incorporating new forms of punishments upon the corporate such that the real purpose of punishments i.e. deterrence or formation such as fine or a penalty is achieved. The author has attempted to put forward these innovative kinds of punishments and a model for the same.

Keyword:

criminal liability ,sentencing ,Indispensability ,Bhopal Gas tragedy