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Reforms section error

The paragraph on Section 309 - punishing the unsuccessful attempt to suicide - blames "colonial society where people did not have rights of their own." Actually it mirrors an English law which was repealed in England by the Suicide Act 1961. Alansplodge (talk) 18:02, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

plagiarism

The phrase "principally the work of a man who had hardly held a brief, and whose time was devoted to politics and literature" is plaigarised from the preface to an edition of the Code written by W. R. Hamilton. Please revise or cite. here is the google book link

http://books.google.com/books?id=LQ0bAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR15&dq=indian+penal+code+macaulay&hl=en&ei=Pd5MTMvTM8GC8gbK6v04&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEgQ6AEwBjgK#v=onepage&q=indian%20penal%20code%20macaulay&f=false

it is on page XIX ```` — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.187.137.119 (talk) 01:53, 26 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Merging of Section 6 (and other sections in the Code)

I randomly got the Section 6 of the Indian Penal Code article as part of this month's Wikification drive. I noticed that it has very little content, and what it does have would be fairly simple to merge into this major article. Same goes for most of the other Sections so categorized. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ElectricValkyrie (talk • contribs) 19:39, 5 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I also do agree that separate article of the section 6 of the Indian Penal Code should be merged with the Enlarged article of the Indian Penal Code as a whole. - Indian.Advocate

Suggesting a merge. The Section 6 of the Indian Penal Code article (and several of the other ones in its category) is so small that I'm not sure why it can't be part of the main Indian Penal Code article. Thoughts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by ElectricValkyrie (talk • contribs) 19:43, 5 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Section 6 of the Indian Penal Code is so short that for now it does not merit a separate article. In my view, Section 6 of the Code is also rather unlikely to need its own page in the future. Moonraker (talk) 19:30, 23 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Done I did the merge. --Jeff Ogden (W163) (talk) 20:56, 10 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

English and local law

Did the English actually abolish local traditional law when they introduced the IPC or didn't they? Could the courts, specifically the lower courts, choose to disregard the IPC? If so, did this ever change? 94.211.48.74 (talk) 15:45, 8 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Unusual grammatical traditions - these are being rewritten in a series of edits but given that I'm not from South Asia, I'm not sure if all of these corrections are valid.

Numerous sections in this article, but notably not the intro, contain hasty and otherwise unencyclopedic grammar. Exempli gratia: Various sections of the Indian Penal Code are controversial. They are challenged in courts claiming as against the Constitution of India. Also there is demand for abolition of some controversial IPC sections completely or partially. This is being reworded, but I'm not sure if there is not some better wording that could be used. Ellenor2000 (talk) 20:26, 13 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]