
Reflection on Determination of Blood Money in a Single Crime on Both Eyes of People with One Sighted Eye (Providing a Solution to Amend the Islamic Penal Code) | ||
مجله علمی "پژوهشهای فقهی" | ||
Volume 18, Issue 2, July 2022, Pages 363-384 PDF (668.22 K) | ||
Document Type: Research Paper | ||
DOI: 10.22059/jorr.2021.310790.1008960 | ||
Author | ||
Amin Soleyman Kolvanaq* | ||
Ph.D, Department of Jurisprudence and Principles of Islamic Law, Faculty of Theology, University of Qom, Qom, Iran | ||
Abstract | ||
In legislator’s view the full blood money for two healthy eyes is proved. Regarding the blind eye, one-sixth of the full blood money is determined by the legislator. In the case of the healthy eye of individuals with one-sighted eye, a distinction has been made between congenital blindness and non-criminal blindness and blindness due to criminal causes. In the first case, full blood money and in the second case, half of the blood money have been determined by the legislator. The main question for which the present dissertation seeks to find an answer is how much blood money has to be proven if the healthy and blind eyes of a person are destroyed as a result of a single crime or if the blind eye and the eyesight benefit of the other eye are destroyed? The capacity of the Islamic Penal Code in this regard is to justify the verdict of one full blood money and one sixth of it based on Articles 588, 589 and 691 I. P. C. to the judges of the courts. Although in the view of the former jurists the issue has been neglected, the referendum of contemporary jurists shows the difference between them. In this regard, there are totally three opinions: 1. there is a group that dictate a full blood money for the sighted eye. Considering the blind eye, the same group is divided into two groups: some believe in the proof of the indemnity and some speak of the blood money of the unhealthy eye. 2. Some have voted for half of the blood money for the sighted eye and one third of it for the blind eye. 3. Some also consider the judicial decree of a full blood money as a precaution. The author also considers the judicial decree of a full blood money to be valid and obvious as the requirement of jurisprudential principles. Extracting and adjusting the due principles, the present study expresses the principles of fatwas and evaluates them. Through the synergy of the principles and ijtihad method, this study strengthens the latter view. Also proposing amendments to articles of the Islamic Penal Code, it tries to provide the necessary arrangements for judges in courts to issue rulings in accordance with jurisprudential teachings. | ||
Keywords | ||
Blood Money; Eye; Eyesight Benefit; A person with One Healthy Eye; Crime | ||
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* Istifta from the offices of Ayatollahs Hosseini Khamenei, Sistani, Safi Golpayegani, Shobiri Zanjani, Vahid Khorasani, Nouri Hamedani, Rouhani, Alavi Gorgani.
* Islamic Penal Code approved on 01/02/2013 by the Islamic Consultative Assembly. | ||
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