{"id":1491,"date":"2016-09-22T18:40:12","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T13:10:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-09-22T18:40:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T13:10:12","slug":"is-mensrea-or-culpable-mental-state-necessary-for-prosecution-under-mgl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=1491","title":{"rendered":"Is \u2018mensrea\u2019 or culpable mental state necessary for prosecution under MGL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is \u2018mensrea\u2019 or culpable mental state necessary for prosecution under MGL<br \/>Question 20<br \/>Bill  <br \/>Offences and Penalties, Prosecution and Compounding<br \/>FAQ on GST dated 21.9.2016 based on Draft Model GST<br \/>Q 20. Is &#39;mensrea&#39; or culpable mental state necessary for prosecution under MGL?<br \/>\nAns. Yes. However, Section 75 presumes the existence of a state of mind (i.e. &#8220;culpable mental state&#8221; or mensrea) required to commit an offence if it cannot be committed without such a state of mind<br \/>\n &#8211;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/acts?id=22641\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is \u2018mensrea\u2019 or culpable mental state necessary for prosecution under MGLQuestion 20Bill Offences and Penalties, Prosecution and CompoundingFAQ on GST dated 21.9.2016 based on Draft Model GSTQ 20. Is &#39;mensrea&#39; or culpable mental state necessary for prosecution under MGL? Ans. Yes. However, Section 75 presumes the existence of a state of mind (i.e. &#8220;culpable mental &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=1491\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is \u2018mensrea\u2019 or culpable mental state necessary for prosecution under MGL&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}