Tag: sexual harassment
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Marital Rape Law in India
By Kartavi Satyarthi, National Law University, Jodhpur. “…… Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution…..” ~ British philosopher and political activist Bertrand Russell Rape per se is an offence against women, violating her dignity and self-respect and…
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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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Capital Punishment: Justice or Revenge?
By Bhanu Chopra, Government Law College, Mumbai. “The penalty of death differs from all other forms of criminal punishment, not in degree but in kind. It is unique in its total irrevocability. It is unique in its rejection of rehabilitation of the convict as a basic purpose of criminal justice. And it is unique, finally, in…
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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…