This bengali translation of the classic Ratanlal & Dhirajlal’s The Indian Penal Code, 34th edition is a section wise commentary on the Indian Penal Code. Radically revised, the edition exhaustively covers the consequences of the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013.

It includes widest possible range of topics from emerging areas of criminal law including:
- Jurisdiction in territorial waters in the light of the Enrica Lexie case
- Corporate criminal liability in offences having mens rea
- New trends in punishments and sentencing
- Fake encounters and honour killings
- Mercy killing in the light of the Supreme Court judgment in Aruna Shanbaug Case
- Delay in disposal of mercy petitions and commutation of death sentence
- Discussion of Capital punishment and the ‘Rarest of rare’ doctrine

This translated edition too has a Summary at the end of the work and is an indispensable reference work for students, scholars, presiding officers in courts, legal practitioners, investigators, administrators, draftsmen, legislators and social scientists