Author: Team LawFoyer

BY:-Mantasha Fatema Bukhari Introduction A defense asserted by an accused in a criminal prosecution to avoid liability for the commission crime because, at the time of the crime, the person did not appreciate the nature or quality or wrongfulness of the acts. The insanity defense is used by criminal defendants. The most common variation is cognitive insanity. Under the test for cognitive insanity, a defendant must have been so impaired by a mental disease or defect at the time of the act that he or she did not know the nature or quality of the act, or, if the defendant did know the nature or quality of the act, he or she did not know that the act was wrong. The vast majority of states allow criminal defendants to invoke the cognitive insanity defence. The insanity defence is used in criminal prosecutions to prove that the criminal had a severe mental disorder at the crime time.…

By- TUSHAR SINGH SAMOTA The phrase "secular" refers to being "apart" from religion or having no religious foundation. A secular person derives his moral standards from no religion. His ideas…