Tag: Indian Penal Code
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Question Continues: Justice or No Justice?
By Amrita Dasgupta, South Calcutta Law College. The number of pending cases, piled up with the Indian judiciary, is legendary. It has been estimated that it would take at least 320 years to clear off the total backlog of 31.28 million cases pending with various courts across the country.[1] After 13 years of the prolonged court…
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Water Pollution: An Overview
By Amrita Dasgupta, South Calcutta Law College. In today’s world of practicality, pollution free water is a global crisis. As the world started developing with escalation of industries, agriculture, and trade and commerce, the water throughout the world turned poisonous with the dumping of garbage, industrial chemicals, oil pollutions, etc. Not only the living organisms in water…
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Decriminalization of Attempt to Suicide
By Pooja Meena, National Law University, Jodhpur. The word suicide has not been defined in the Indian Penal Code. The Black’s Law Dictionary defines suicide as “The act of taking one’s own life. It is also termed as self-killing, self-destruction, self-slaughter, self-murder, felony-de-se or death by one’s own hand.“[1] In India, not only abetment of suicide…
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The Draconian Law of Sedition
By Anjali Rawat, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National University (RMLNLU), Lucknow. Lord Macaulay while framing the rough draft for Indian Penal Code, 1860 added a provision to give effect to sedition but due to some unaccountable reasons when it was enforced in 1860 this particular provision was not included in the Code. In 1870 the British…
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Domestic Violence against Women: The Indian Scenario
By Sanya Darakhshan Kishwar, Central University of Bihar, Gaya. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — WHAT THE TERM ACTUALLY MEANS “Domestic violence and emotional abuse are behaviours used by one person in a relationship to control the other. partners may be married or not married ;heterosexual, gay or lesbian; living together or separated or dating.” [i]