LASD JOURNAL EDUCATIONAL VOLUME – I ISSUE – II SOCIETY FEBRUARY 2021 Page 2 of 19 D I S C L A I M E R No part of this publication may be reproduced or copied in any form by any means without prior written permission of Editor- in-chief of LASDES Journal. The Editorial Team of LASDES Journal holds the copyright to all articles contributed to this publication. The views expressed in this publication are purely personal opinions of the authors and do not reflect the views of the Editorial Team of LASDES. Though all efforts are made to ensure the accuracy and correctness of the information published, LASDES shall not be responsible for any errors caused due to oversight otherwise. Page 3 of 19 E D I T O R I A L B O A R D FOUNDER & PROJECT HEAD Mr. Utkarsh Srivastava EDITOR IN CHIEF: Mr. Devaang Savla BCL, University of Oxford Practising in High Court of Judicature at Allahabad. EDITORIAL DIRECTOR: Ms. Aparna Bajpai M.A, Azim Premji University. EDITOR: Ms. Anjali Rawat BCL, University of Oxford. EDITOR: Mr. Aradhya Sethia LL.M, Yale Law College. Page 4 of 19 EDITOR: Ms. Srishti Joshi LL.B, University of Mumbai. EDITOR: Mr. Ayush Khanna B.Com LL.B, Amity University, Noida Practising in High Court of Judicature at Allahabad. EDITOR: Mr. Oliver Carr BCL, University of Oxford. EDITOR: Mr. Tanmay Sadh B.A. LL.B (Hons.) from University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, Currently practising in High Court of Judicature at Allahabad. Page 5 of 19 ABOUT US LASD Educational Society (NGO) is a Non-Profit Organization which is involved in sectors of Legal Education, Legal Aid and Social Reforms, expressly focusing on students and people belonging to backward communities, who are resource-deprived or suppressed. It is a development of professional legal enthusiasts who undertake to legally empower citizens of the State of Uttar Pradesh, contributing towards their social and moral responsibility. ABOUT LASDES E-JOURNAL LASDES E-JOURNAL is open access, professional-reviewed reference- journal, dedicated to express views on topical legal and social issues, thereby generating a cross current of ideas on emerging matters. Page 6 of 19 CANNIBALISM AND ITS LEAKAGE WITH CRIMINOLOGY - PRIYAM Page 7 of 19 CANNIBALISM AND ITS LEAKAGE WITH CRIMINOLOGY ABSTRACT Today, if we go through various civilizations on the earth from ancient times to the date, humans have dined on human flesh. Whether it was done in the course of terrifying the enemy and gain his strength, cannibalism goes back a long way. We have seen various examples of individuals who have lonely enjoy and find eating one of their kinds satisfying. And if you think rationally and ask why they do so? There is just a simple but horrific answer to that that they do it because they have pleasure by doing so. In most cases, these activities are the consequences of a psychopathic personality. Some offenders of cannibalism are psychotic whereas many of them are well acquainted with the act while they are doing it. Such cannibal intensely describes the deformed feelings and distorted emotions which they have while doing such an act. They enjoy the process of murdering and cutting the body of the victim. Ultimately, this creates extreme satisfaction or some kind of euphoric state in the brain. In such a diverse world, in the huge subject of anthropology, cannibalism is one of the exotic topics. In the 21st Page 8 of 19 century, it does not matter to what extent you claim yourself adventurous and open-minded, but you will still think twice at the thought of eating human flesh. Cannibalism, as much as any other practice, still represents a limit to cultural relativism. However, because of colonialism and evangelization, cannibalism is almost entirely outdated. Page 9 of 19 Introduction We have read and listened about that animal eating other animals like a lion eating a deer, but society is heading towards human eating human world. In 2005 and 2006 a case which was a sheer example of cruelty and deformed mindset came out in light famously known as Nithari serial murders or Nithari kand. The incident occurred in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. The case came into the limelight when the number of children got disappeared suddenly in a series and some teenagers too and most of them are girls. Slowly, the investigation led the police to a resident of Moninder Singh Pandher in Nithari village. And in between in the village people at intervals of time found some remains of the human body, skeletons, skulls, etc. which had made the situation more scary and brutal at that time. Afterwards, according to the facts and circumstantial shreds of evidence, it was discovered that there are two accused behind all this inhumane crime. First, Moninder Singh Pandher and second his servant, Surinder Koli. Later, CBI took them in custody and further Surinder Koli confessed that he abducted the children, sexually assaulted them, and later cut Page 10 of 19 them into pieces, cook and eat them, and later disposed of the remains of the body nearby. His employer Moninder Singh Pandher was not accused in all the cases but he was a womanizer and also a convict of sexual assault of abducted children and young girls. After reading this sort of real-life example we can say that it is a case of sexual abuse, murder, attempted necrophilia but also a well-established example of cannibalism. In this article, we are going to discuss crime connected with deformity of mindset known as cannibalism. Nowadays, with changing scenarios of society cannibalism is taking place more frequently. Maybe cannibalism is related to some illness, psychological abnormality, etc. but the method and its consequences is overall a crime. In ancient times it was somewhere a part of some tribal societies as a part of their culture but now it is happening within our society and creating fear in our minds. The root word cannibal comes from the Spanish caníbal, caríbal “savage, cannibal”. It came from Caniba, which Columbus recorded for the Carib tribe Page 11 of 19 (from which the name Caribbean was also derived). This tribe was reputed to be anthropophagous, and thus greatly feared. Cannibalism means the practice of eating the flesh of a human or of one's kind which inhumane cruelty is. It formed a practice in earlier times which was followed by many people in countries like Prehistoric Europe, South America, New Guinea, and Fiji. It has been encountered that in ancient times it was accepted for reasons of survival when faced with the extreme need or for religious or magic reasons. Anthropological data represents that millions of years ago the link between Neanderthals and Homosapiens was cannibalistic for nutritional reasons. In today's framework, these types of cases are extremely rare but when traced in society it is often related to some sort of severe mental illness. In India, just like Nithari kand, various other cases have taken place in metro cities where the accused consumed his victim. Cannibalism takes place in tribal groups such as Andaman and Nicobar islands where people eat human flesh. In India, the famous section of Aghoris eats human flesh in the name of religious rituals and superstitions that eating another human will keep them young and make them immortal. Page 12 of 19 Several times it has been observed that aghoris took dead bodies from cremation ghats for eating their flesh. Sometimes this cannibalism moves one step forward in the form of sexual cannibalism where the accused either sexually assault the victim before his or her death or after his or her death or then later consume his or her dead body too. Various studies show that cannibalism is anti-social and highly impulsive and is a sign of abnormal behaviour of the accused. Analyzing in detail it was opined that it is psychopathological. The person who is accused of these kinds of crimes has some sort of history of deviant behaviour, impulsiveness, depressing childhood, has no feelings of remorse, and also has pleasure in given giving pain to others. If we try to find the characteristics of such offenders in people who genuinely have it is a difficult task. They are not easily traceable, these types of people act normally and socialize like normal people but in reality that has a deformed mind and grotesque mindset which is always ready to catch people for making their prey. These kinds of offenders have some factors in common, like- Having a family history of some kind of mental illness. Page 13 of 19 Some pregnancy birth complications, such as malnutrition or exposure to toxins or viruses that may impact brain development. Taking mind-altering drugs during teen years and young adulthood. If we closely examine we can see that apart from these above- mentioned reasons there is one more important and trending reason behind this social issue is overpopulation and the presence of alternative nutrition facilities. All over the world, there is a population boom no matter it is at a slow or fast pace but it is there. And for this huge population, the nutrition available in nature is getting scarce. For fulfilling their needs people resort to other human beings for their nutrition. And when these problems get assorted with any or some kind of psychopath problems the situation becomes fierce. Types of Cannibalism- There are four types of cannibalism existing in our society or we can say they are the reason behind cannibalism- Page 14 of 19 Survival Cannibalism- Several times cannibalism is committed for survival.