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How Can a Feeble ‘No’ of the Woman be Her Consent?
Two recent judgements of Delhi and Punjab & Haryana High Courts resulting in the acquittal of accused persons, convicted by lower courts in rape cases, have created aflutter across the country. While the Delhi High Court has acquitted a high-profile filmmaker Mahmood Farooqui, who came into limelight for his film ‘Peepli Live’, which was themed…
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Love Jihad: Conspiracy of Conversion
‘Love Jihad’ has nothing to do with interfaith marriages. It is, in fact, conversion of young girls to Islam by Muslim boys by feigning love. It is going on for nearly more than a decade in Kerala and from there it has spread its tentacles to other parts of the country. It is not only…
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Talaq-e-biddat Goes but Dehumanising Halala Remains
Parmanand Pandey Advocate The obnoxious practice of triple Talaq, which has spoiled the lives of thousands of Muslim women across the country has now been outlawed by the Supreme Court of India. Muslim men have been divorcing women with gay abandon by saying talaq three times in one go, sometimes under the influence of Alcohol…
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SC Guidelines for Preventing Misuse of Dowry Law
Laws are meant for the protection of innocent and punishment to guilty but when they become instruments of perversity and misuse, their very purpose gets defeated and they need to be re-looked. Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code is one such law which has been used to harass others than to help the young…
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States Cannot Give Short shrift to Parliamentary Laws
The uniqueness of the Constitution of India is that it is neither federal nor unitary but an amalgam of both. The distantly nearest with it is the constitution of the United States of America but the common factors of comparison are a few and far between the two. The US constitution is truly Federal in…
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Justice Karnan’s Saga will Haunt Higher Judiciary
L’affaire Justice J S Karnan is a unique but lowest of the low case in the judicial history of India. Justice Karnan is the first, and hopefully the last, sitting (now retired) judge of the High Court to have been found guilty of the Contempt of the Supreme Court. He is currently undergoing six-month imprisonment…
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Cruel; Society Leaves the Choice of Either ‘Love or Lover’
‘Kitna pyar hai tumse ye jaan lo, Tum hi zindagi ho meri is baat ko maan lo, Tumhe dene ko mere paas kuch bhi nahi, Bas ek jaan hai, jab jee chahe maang lo.’ (Must you know how much love I have for you, please accept that you are my life. Except this life I…
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Constitution Countenances the Ban on Cow Slaughter
For the last nearly a fortnight, the Central Government’s new Prevention of Cruelty to the Animals Rules have led to heated debates and agitations in many states particularly by those, who wish to fish in the troubled waters as they have their own axes to grind. Rules do not say anything about beef eating or…
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Triple Talaq Demeans the Dignity of Muslim Women
In Islam marriage is a contract not a sacrament as it is in many other religions. ‘Offer’ and ‘acceptance’ are the necessary ingredients of the contract. Among Muslims the groom proposes to bride and when she accepts the proposal then the nikah is performed by the Qazi in the presence of witnesses. However, a million…
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Will Reopening of Ayodhya Issue Bring Forth Justice?
Will Reopening of Ayodhya Issue Bring Forth Justice? ‘Supreme Court is supreme not because it is infallible but because it is final, has been said number without times. The recent judgment of the Supreme Court in the ‘State (through) Central Bureau of Investigation Versus Shri Kalyan Singh (former CM of UP) & Ors.’ proves the…