{"id":808,"date":"2017-06-10T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hostbooks.com\/in\/?p=808"},"modified":"2017-06-10T13:24:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T13:24:00","slug":"section-94-presumption-of-culpable-mental-state-prosecution-and-compounding-of-offences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostbooks.com\/in\/hb\/gst-act\/section-94-presumption-of-culpable-mental-state-prosecution-and-compounding-of-offences\/","title":{"rendered":"Section 94 : Presumption of culpable mental state &#8211; Prosecution And Compounding Of Offences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>94.Presumption of culpable mental state<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(1) In any prosecution for an offence under this Act which requires a culpable mental state on the part of the accused, the Court shall presume the existence of such mental state but it shall be a defence for the accused to prove the fact that he \u00a0had no such mental state with respect to the act charged as an offence in that prosecution.<br \/>\nExplanation.\u2014 In this section, \u201cculpable mental state\u201d includes intention, motive, knowledge of a fact, and belief in, or reason to believe, a fact.<\/p>\n<p>(2) For the purposes of this section, a fact is said to be proved only when the Court believes it to exist beyond reasonable doubt and not merely when its existence is established by a preponderance of probability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>94.Presumption of culpable mental state (1) In any prosecution for an offence under this Act<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostbooks.com\/in\/hb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostbooks.com\/in\/hb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostbooks.com\/in\/hb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostbooks.com\/in\/hb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostbooks.com\/in\/hb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostbooks.com\/in\/hb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostbooks.com\/in\/hb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostbooks.com\/in\/hb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostbooks.com\/in\/hb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostbooks.com\/in\/hb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostbooks.com\/in\/hb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}