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Incident I was in the Metro two or three stations away from getting down. It was a very crowded metro. Suddenly I noticed a guy touching me. I could see the guilt in his eyes but he did not budge. I did not say anything assuming that he would make an excuse of an overcrowded [...]
June 7, 2011
When Richard Gere had stooped over to kiss Shilpa Shetty on the cheek in an anti-AIDS event in New Delhi in 2008, little did he imagine that he would be slapped with arrest warrants on obscenity charges. In a country that likes its pizzas in 30 minutes, adores its Beatles and its Beiber (*sigh*), where [...]
June 3, 2011
Delay and heavy workloads in the courts have resulted in the informal system of pre-trial bargaining and settlement in the western countries, especially in the united states the system is commonly known as plea bargaining . A suspect may be advised to admit part or all the crimes charged in return for a specified punishment [...]
May 30, 2011
INTRODUCTION The Police force in the country is entrusted with the responsibility of maintenance of public order and prevention and detection of crimes.[1] Each state and union territory of India has its own separate police force. Article 246 of the Constitution of India designates the police as a state subject, which means that the state governments [...]
May 30, 2011
Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) is any kind of physical or mental violation of a child with sexual intent, usually by a person who is in a position of trust or power vis-à-vis the child. It is any sexual behaviour directed towards a person under the age of 16 years, without informed consent. Any child below [...]
May 30, 2011
In Indian law, public interest litigation means litigation for the protection of the public interest. It is litigation introduced in a court of law, not by the aggrieved party but by the court itself or by any other private party. It is not necessary, for the exercise of the court’s jurisdiction, that the person who [...]
May 30, 2011
Every society in human history, has sought the obedience of each of its members to certain laws. The most powerful tool each of them has had at its disposal to achieve that end has been fear. And the greatest fear being the fear of the final end, each of them has used death a penalty [...]
May 26, 2011
The courts have an exclusive privilege of interpreting laws yet, at times the judges have a fault of giving decisions which either stretch the law else trespass on fields which are reserved for the other instrumentalities. It is of course true to say that judges need to give objective, impartial and impersonal judgements. Such judgements [...]
May 11, 2011
The scope of my article is to cover Section 498a of the IPC relating to criminal law in which the wife and her family can charge any or all of the husband’s family of physical or mental cruelty. This law is unique to India as it not only discriminates based on gender (man Vs. woman), but also [...]
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