Penal laws (British) were generally repealed in the 19th century.
 In India, the Hindu legal tradition, along with Islamic law, were both supplanted by common law when India became part of the British Empire
 It thus regulates the definition of and penalties for offences found to have a sufficiently deleterious social impact but, in itself, makes no moral judgment on an offender nor imposes restrictions on society that physically prevent people from committing a crime in the first place

