{"id":113556,"date":"2026-06-02T00:36:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T00:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/if-you-chop-off-a-limb-people-will-follow-law-karnataka-hc\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T00:36:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T00:36:54","slug":"if-you-chop-off-a-limb-people-will-follow-law-karnataka-hc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/if-you-chop-off-a-limb-people-will-follow-law-karnataka-hc\/","title":{"rendered":"If you chop off a limb, people will follow law: Karnataka HC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Karnataka High Court judge&#8217;s strong remarks on crime deterrence, suggesting &#8220;chopping off a leg or a hand&#8221; for compliance, have sparked debate. Refusing bail to a 23-year-old engineering student accused of rape, Justice R Nataraj commented on the perceived leniency in the justice system. The court has issued a notice to the state government regarding the matter.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Karnataka High Court judge&#8217;s strong remarks on crime deterrence, suggesting &#8220;chopping off a leg or a hand&#8221; for compliance, have sparked debate. Refusing bail to a 23-year-old engineering student accused of rape, Justice R Nataraj commented on the perceived leniency in the justice system. The court has issued a notice to the state government&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/if-you-chop-off-a-limb-people-will-follow-law-karnataka-hc\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">If you chop off a limb, people will follow law: Karnataka HC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":113557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}