Category: Gender
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Free Treatment of Acid Attack Victims: The SC Verdict
By Suhasini Srinivasan, Army Institute of Law, Mohali. The Supreme Court on 10th April, 2015 asked all private hospitals throughout the country to provide free treatment, including medicines and corrective surgeries, to all acid attack victims and that private hospitals could neither “turn away” victims of acid attack nor wash their hands off after providing first aid.…
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Marital Rape: The Indian Scenario
By Aparna Menon, Government Law College, Mumbai. Marital rape, a contemporary term which means sexual perversion extended by the husband on to his wife without her consent in the due course of their legal marriage. It is non consensual intercourse obtained by the man with his wife through force, threat of force, violence in case…
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Dowry: The Present Scenario
By Swastika Goel, Amity Law School, Lucknow. The Supreme Court of India held in a recent case that a demand for dowry can be made at any time and thus will be penalised accordingly. The ruling was made in the case of State of Uttarakhand v. Bhim Singh and Anr. where the accused (Bhim Singh) and…
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Orchestra of “Women Apathy”
By Debayan Roy, Legal Practitioner, Law Graduate (AKK New Law Academy- 2009-2014). As the ‘nukkad natak’ of government officials continued, Leslee Udwin’s riveting tale of a girl shredded into pieces of mortified horror received a standing ovation at New York. Is it just the West who celebrates every form of creativity throttled within India or…
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Rohtak Gang Rape: Beyond the Outrage and the Law
By Aishwarya Dhakarey, Symbiosis Law School, Pune. “Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.” -Emma Thompson We all have read about incidents wherein a woman after being raped turned into a schizophrenic or developed some mental abnormality. What about victims who were already suffering from some mental ailment? Anything…
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Combat beyond the Kitchen
By Debayan Roy, Legal Practitioner, Law Graduate (AKK New Law Academy- 2009-2014). A ‘Defence’ tale of Hypocrisy and Deprivation Across the bullet proof glass enclosure, sat two dignitaries. One was riding on the hope of millions to usher in an era of economic growth and development and the other was the president of the world’s ‘super…
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Hindu Marriage Amendment Bill: An Analysis
By Monika Banode, Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar. The Marriage Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2010 was introduced in the Rajya Sabha on August 4, 2010 to amend the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 and the Special Marriage Act, 1954. The Standing Parliamentary Committee has submitted its report on the Bill on March 1, 2011. During the Monsoon Session of…
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‘India’s Daughter’- Examining the Effectiveness of a Ban, or Lack Thereof
By Aishwarya Borgohain, University School of Law and Legal Studies, GGSIPU. To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it. – Michel de Montaigne The release of the BBC documentary ‘India’s Daughter’ by filmmaker Leslee Udwin, and its consequent ban in India, has seen the launch of innumerable debates across social media. These…
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Struggle for Dignity: The Voice of Queer Peripheral
By Ankit Sharma, Siddhartha Law College, Dehradun. “Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?” –Ernest Gaines Should the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender collectively known as ‘THE LGBT’ community in India continue to remain in the shadow of criminality? The de-criminalisation of homosexuality…
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Horrors of Rape Examination in India: The Controversial Two Finger Test
By Neelanjana Paul, KLE Society’s Law College, Bangalore. A lot of things can be done with two fingers. Eat, Whistle, Write, even the sign for Victory. But what definitely should not be done is to test someone for rape. For a rape survivor, it is a never ending nightmare which entails as the investigation is carried on.…