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Article 15(3) – Where it all began!
Articles Apr 11, 2024 0

Article 15(3) – Where it all began!

For an ordinary non-legal person, which most of men are prior to filing of dowry related cases against them, Articles 15(3) is the answer to their most basic yet generally misguided question. Clause 3 of Article 15 of the Constitution of India gives powers to the legislature to create special provisions for women and children. […]

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How To Reduce Maintenance – A Pragmatic Guide
Articles Apr 11, 2024 0

How To Reduce Maintenance – A Pragmatic Guide

Maintenance is a noun that, in legal parlance, means the amount provided to distressed wives, children, or parents for their upkeep, support, or subsistence. This is a benevolent provision of law, as the law says that no person shall leave his wife, children or old parents at the mercy of others and unattended by him; […]

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Domestic Violence Act Myth Buster
Articles Apr 11, 2024 0

Domestic Violence Act Myth Buster

What is Domestic Violence as per the Domestic Violence Act (PWDVA, 2005)? As per law, any act, be it omission or commission or conduct against the woman by any other male or female relative living in a domestic relation, which harms, injures, harasses, threatens or endangers the aggrieved person, is Domestic Violence as per the […]

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Missus Can Do No Wrong – Uxorem Non Potest Peccare
Articles Apr 11, 2024 0

Missus Can Do No Wrong – Uxorem Non Potest Peccare

Pardon me for paraphrasing a well-known maxim- ‘rex non potest peccare’ or ‘the King can do no wrong’ to suit the context, but allow me to elaborate. ‘Sovereign immunity’ is a legal doctrine by which the King/ Crown/ President/ State cannot commit a legal wrong, i.e. they are immune from civil suit or criminal prosecution. The […]

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Planning To Get Married Life – Watch Out for these
Articles Apr 8, 2024 0

Planning To Get Married Life – Watch Out for these

Are You Planning To Settle Down In Your Life? Then Read On A few days ago, I found a news article on this portal about a recent conference held in the Middle East on pre-marital screening for women, which got my immediate attention. Even though it was about medical screening for spinsters to avoid problems […]

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Feminism – A lie which I don’t buy
Articles Apr 8, 2024 0

Feminism – A lie which I don’t buy

To me, feminism is such a simple description: it’s equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights Callie Khouri, a Syrian-American film and television screenwriter, producer, director and a Feminist A gender-equal society would be one where the word ‘gender’ does not exist: where everyone can be themselves Gloria Steinem, a self-styled Feminist You […]

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Discharge u/s 239 CrPC Myth Buster | Discharge Police Instituted 498A
Articles Apr 8, 2024 0

Discharge u/s 239 CrPC Myth Buster | Discharge Police Instituted 498A

My complaint and Chargesheet do not contain particulars like the date and time of the incidents. Shall I file a Discharge? The law is very clear: CrPC 212 says that if the details of the time and date of the incident are not mentioned in the material on the Chargesheet, the court cannot meet the […]

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Delhi Court punished woman to give false evidence in a rape case
Articles Apr 5, 2024 0

Delhi Court punished woman to give false evidence in a rape case

Rape is an accusation that is hard to be proved, and even harder to be defended by the accused party. A rape allegation gives a disastrous turn to the life of the accused, excluding them socially. Rape is a menace, and many women do not speak about to incidence due to infamy. But point of […]

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