Be innovative and escape the law...

I was going through articles under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations.

Article 11 is interesting...!!!

Article 11

1. Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.
2. No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.

So if you want to commit some 'crime' that has not yet been banned/ termed illegal by the law, you can commit the same and get away with it, even if the government declares the act to be a crime later on. So if you can be innovative, you can escape the law.

People who lived during the formative years of the constitution probably had more freedom in the aspect. They just had to complete the act before the law prohibiting the act is put in place.


Even now, you get a sort of a notice period before something is banned.
Here is how - Any new law has to be passed both in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha. This typically takes at least a few days. Any person who keeps him/herself well informed about the current affairs will get wind of a new law in the offing. Then this bill has to be approved by the President and then published in the gazette before it becomes a law. This takes at least a few week.
All in all, you get ample amount of time to finish your acts (!!) before it is prohibited.