A question that has rarely been discussed in Indian courts and legislature is whether a person can be excused for committing a murder compelled by necessity, but has significant importance in English Law. Let's begin with a story. On 5th July, 1884, four Englishmen Thomas Dudley, Edward Stephens, Edmund Brooks and 17-year old cabin boy, Richard Thomas Parker, all able-bodied English seamen, were cast away in a storm on the high seas 1600 miles from the Cape of Good Hope were compelled to put into an open boat belonging to an English yacht. In this boat they had very less food and water. On twelth day, after consuming all the food available to them they had nothing to eat. The boat was probably more than 1000 miles away from land. On 24th of July, Dudley and Stephens spoke of their having families, and suggested it would be better to kill the boy(Parker) that their lives should be saved, and Dudley proposed that if there was no vessel in sight by the tomorrow morning, the boy should...