Tag: Right to Life
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Rehabilitation of Women and Girls during the Pandemic
Information about the issue: On 31st August 2020, an SC order sought to clear the slums around railway tracks in Delhi within three months, without any policy for rehabilitation. As concerns were being raised on the procedure to be followed in this regard, in another order dated 14th September, 2020, the Court instructed the authorities…
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Support the Slum Dwellers Project
What is the issue? As per a senior government official, there are 750 slum clusters in Delhi, of which around 52 prominent ones are located close to railway tracks. The Supreme Court, on 31st August 2020, passed an Order in connection with the piling up of the waste along the railway tracks, wherein the Court…
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Legal Journey of Section 377- A Relentless Battle of Expression and Recognition
By Abhiudaya Verma, Research Associate, Policy The legal fight in Singapore against Section 377A of Singapore Penal Code, which can be called a close counterpart of the Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), is set to go further. On March 30th, 2020 the High Court of Singapore dismissed the plea to declare section…
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Nagaland under AFSPA Shelter: An Ongoing Saga
By Kartik Pathania, Amity Law School, Delhi. Disturbed area is an area where any magistrate or police officer of the rank of Sub-Inspector or Head Constable of Armed Police have been given the right to fire or otherwise use force even to the point of causing death, against any person who is indulging in any…
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Rohingya Deportation Issue: Revamping the right to life?
By Kaushiki Kar, South Calcutta Law College, Kolkata. Right to life is one of the basic human rights and not even the State has the authority to violate that right. Protection of life and personal liberty in India means: No person shall be deprived of his life or personal liberty except according to procedure established by law.…
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To Live or Not: But is the Choice Really Ours?
By Rabia Mohamed Ismail Abdul Rahim, NUALS, Kochi. There’s a story of a democratic country I would like to narrate today. India. The Indian Constitution guarantees every individual the Right to Life. THE END.
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The Ganga Gram Yojana: An Endeavour for Cleaner Water
By Shrutika Garg, Jamnalal Bajaj School of Legal Studies, Banasthali Vidyapith. “Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money”
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To Die or Not to Die, is the Question
By Pragya Dhoundiyal, Law Center-1, Faculty of Law, Delhi University. Right to Life is a right of wide import. This right has always been a bone of contention because defining its limits and the ingredients of this particular right depends on the interpretation and understanding of life of the person who is analyzing it.
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Capital Punishment: A Crime for a Crime?
By Shruti Sharma, Campus Law Centre, Delhi University. The killing of a human being by another human being is generally known as Homicide. But not all killings of human beings are Homicidal or rather illegal. Some killings are absolutely legal and enforceable and are better known as Capital Punishments, i.e., execution of the offender. The term Capital…
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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…