Blood Money and its Legal Implications

Key Points

• 1'Blood money' (diya) is part of Islamic Sharia law, involving payments from the perpetrator to the victim's family.
• 2It is practiced in cases of unintentional murder and culpable homicide.
• 3In Saudi Arabia, traffic regulations mandate blood money payments for victims in road accidents.
• 4India's legal system provides 'plea bargaining' as a way for the accused to negotiate with the prosecution.
• 5Plea bargaining is limited to offenses with imprisonment of less than seven years.