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Injustice Served When Justice is Delayed
Articles Apr 4, 2024 0

Injustice Served When Justice is Delayed

“Law should not sit limply, while those who defy it go free and those who seek its protection lose hope”. (Jennison v. Baker, 1972). “Justice should not only be done but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done” is what was of fundamental importance as per Lord Hewet while explaining what entails Justice. […]

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Difference between ad interim, interim and final maintenance
Articles Apr 3, 2024 0

Difference between ad interim, interim and final maintenance

Introduction The term ‘maintenance’ is defined as an amount payable by the husband to his wife who is unable to maintain herself either during the subsistence of marriage or upon separation or divorce. ‘Maintenance’ and ‘alimony’ have been used interchangeably, the term alimony means an allowance or amount which a court orders the husband to […]

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Rape Law Amendments of 2018 in India
rape Apr 3, 2024 0

Rape Law Amendments of 2018 in India

What are the Punishments and How to get a Bail in Rape Case. With the passage of time and the change in time, a country’s law must develop. As for any civil society, society demands strict laws in a difficult time, but a question always remains when it comes to drafting a particular law how […]

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Making 498a Compoundable or Compounding the Problems?
498A Apr 3, 2024 0

Making 498a Compoundable or Compounding the Problems?

MARZ BADTA GAYA JYUN JYUN DAWA KI Time and again, various High Courts and Supreme Court and Committees have advocated that 498a (Husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty: Proposed Section 84 of The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023) be made bailable and compoundable. Time and again, the government has made up its […]

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What is a Discharge Petition under Crpc 239?
Articles Apr 3, 2024 0

What is a Discharge Petition under Crpc 239?

Discharge in criminal cases and Quash are favorite topics of discussion in most of the Men’s Rights Group’s weekly meetings, discussions on web portals and even in WhatsApp groups. The same is buoyed by the partial discharges from 406 or other allied offences like 325, 313, etc. or even when some of the relatives are […]

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How to Defend False Charge of Sexual Harassment at Work Place
Articles Apr 3, 2024 0

How to Defend False Charge of Sexual Harassment at Work Place

False Sexual Harassment at Workplace charges have now become a routine. However, there is a lack of material available on how to defend oneself from such false claims. The situation for men is similar to when one facing false dowry harassment charges under 498A (Husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty: Proposed […]

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Rape Commentology
Articles Apr 2, 2024 0

Rape Commentology

Suddenly, the middle class got paranoid about the safety of their sisters, wives and daughters when ‘India’s Daughter’, re-re-provoked by interest in Rapes happening in India. Re-re-provoked? Oh just couple of months back it was Uber Rape Case and then few months back there were two bodies hanging in some village in Ballia duly raped […]

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Section 498a IPC | 498a Judgments | False Dowry Case | 498a Misuse
Articles Apr 1, 2024 0

Section 498a IPC | 498a Judgments | False Dowry Case | 498a Misuse

What is Section 498A ? IPC 498A is one of the sections of the Indian Penal Code inserted in the year 1986 to protect women from harassment on account of demand of Dowry. As per definition: The statute says that 498A. Husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty.—Whoever, being the husband […]

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