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Marital Rape – Marriage, Sex and My Choice
Articles Apr 20, 2024 0

Marital Rape – Marriage, Sex and My Choice

Marital Rape – Marriage, Sex and My Choice Marital Rape is defined as an act of sexual intercourse with one’s spouse without the consent of the other spouse. It is quite a recent phenomenon that has caught the Western world’s fancy. Till the 1970s, very few countries considered marital Rape as a crime, and now talks […]

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Look Out Circular and it’s Cancellation
Articles Apr 20, 2024 0

Look Out Circular and it’s Cancellation

What is LOC or Look Out Circular? Look out, circular (LOC) has no perfect legal definition. It is more of a medium by which authorities worldwide issue a different kind of circular letter to check whether any law enforcement agency in the country wants a travelling person. The world over, such circulars are known by […]

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Legal Position of Live-in Relationship in India
Articles Apr 20, 2024 0

Legal Position of Live-in Relationship in India

Live in Relationship in India: Indian Society, which prides itself on ‘sanskar’ and ‘family’, is undergoing a metamorphosis in the Twenty-First Century. The Familial bonds are weakening. Also, many people stay away from their families in cities, mini-metros, and metros. These people staying as singles get into relationships more often than any other generation and have started a trend of […]

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Law Regarding Maintenance To Senior Citizens
Articles Apr 19, 2024 0

Law Regarding Maintenance To Senior Citizens

Maintenance To Senior Citizens Indian law requires a non-disabled person who has means to maintain and support their parents, which include biological, step-parents and adoptive parents, in a similar manner that a person has to keep his wife and children. However, a special law was enacted for senior citizens – The Maintenance and Welfare Of […]

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How to benefit from recent Supreme Court Judgment on False IPC 498A
Articles Apr 15, 2024 0

How to benefit from recent Supreme Court Judgment on False IPC 498A

There is one line from a Hindi Song that reverberates in my mind each time I see a judgment in which either any High Court or Apex Court has given some guidelines for arresting the misuse of 498A (Husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty: Proposed Section 84 of The Bharatiya Nyaya […]

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498A – Feminists Look At It From The Wrong End Of Telescope
Articles Apr 15, 2024 0

498A – Feminists Look At It From The Wrong End Of Telescope

I have watched the feminist reaction after recent SC judgment with the same nonchalance that it deserved. I have heard the same arguments from them time and again, so many times infact, that now it is boring. While the Apex Court had taken a big step forward to curb the misuse, the feminists cry had […]

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CIBIL – A New Weapon To Fight Maintenance Cases
Articles Apr 15, 2024 0

CIBIL – A New Weapon To Fight Maintenance Cases

Finding this one was pure providence. In the Kusum Sharma judgment, the Hon’ble High Court of Delhi had mandated that an affidavit from both parties should accompany all maintenance and divorce cases filed in Delhi. This exhaustive affidavit covers many aspects of a person’s income, education, employment and lifestyle. While delivering this judgment, Justice J […]

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IPC 354 | Molestation | Outraging the Modesty of a Woman
Knowledge Center Apr 15, 2024 0

IPC 354 | Molestation | Outraging the Modesty of a Woman

354 IPC Assault of criminal force on woman with intent to outrage her modesty (Molestation) (There are many instances where allegations of Molestation or Outrageous Modesty of a woman are lodged against brother-in-law and father-in-law, etc., are levelled along with other sections of marital discord, including 498A. In this article, the author would confine to section […]

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