{"id":533,"date":"2015-12-02T06:13:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T06:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gsbagga.com\/?p=533"},"modified":"2025-11-24T14:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:24:07","slug":"what-is-plea-bargaining-in-indian-penal-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsbagga.com\/beta\/what-is-plea-bargaining-in-indian-penal-code\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Plea Bargaining in Indian Penal Code?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plea bargaining as its name suggests is an agreement in a criminal case which is done between the prosecutor and the defendant. It depends on the way a plea is done. It can also be referred as a contract done between defendant and the prosecutor which can ask defendant to do something for a lesser sentence or charge. It can also be defined as just to establishing a mutual agreement of the strengths and weaknesses of the case.<\/p>\n

Plea bargaining<\/a> is helpful in reducing rush and overcrowd in courts. Defendants are too helped to save time and money.This is why this is used widely by people.<\/p>\n

Types of Plea Bargaining<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Sentence Bargaining<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Sentence bargaining is when a defendant accepts to plead guilty to the stated charge in lieu of a light sentence. But it must be reviewed by a judge.<\/p>\n

Charge Bargaining<\/strong><\/h3>\n

This is the most common type of plea bargaining in which greater charges are dismissed and defendant gets ready to plead guilty to a lesser charge or sentence.<\/p>\n

Fact Bargaining<\/strong><\/h3>\n

This type of plea is used rarely and appears when a defendant gets ready to stipulate to certain facts o that other facts are prevented to be introduced. This type of plea bargaining is usually nit allowed by most of the courts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Plea bargaining as its name suggests is an agreement in a criminal case which is done between the prosecutor and the defendant. It depends on the way a plea is done. It can also be referred as a contract done between defendant and the prosecutor which can ask defendant to do something for a lesser […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,67],"tags":[69],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-law","category-criminal-litigation","tag-criminal-lawyer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsbagga.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsbagga.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsbagga.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsbagga.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsbagga.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gsbagga.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5430,"href":"https:\/\/gsbagga.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/5430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsbagga.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsbagga.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsbagga.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}