DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CODE & ACT:-

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CODE & ACT:-

Code means exhaustive & complete in itself. Act relates to specific area and not complete in itself. Initially all the crimes were enshrined under the Indian Penal Code. There were no separate legislation dealt with types of offences and punishment. But with the passage of time, technology improved and new resources and techniques come into existence. Thereafter, latest offences which were not part of IPC were covered by separate legislations as detailed above. Therefore, now there are numerous offences which are beyond the preview of IPC and which were enacted under separate legislations. Hence, now the IPC has lost its relevance as a code and it has merely become an Act, Therefore parliament ought to change its name from Indian Penal code to Indian penal Act.