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Strict and Absolute Liability:- A critique

  indranil ghosh   25 July 2009 at 23:37

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WOULD “MORE SEVERE PUNISHMENT” ERADICATE PERJURY?

  Carlisle Collins   22 July 2009 at 12:55

COMMENTARY – OPINION: IPC 193 provides punishment for perjury for up to 7 years along with other serious crimes, eg., Rape! Yet, there are our “learned Legal Experts” that believe “stricter provisions” would stop this pr ..


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Eunuchs & their problems - A legal perspective

  M. PIRAVI PERUMAL   18 July 2009 at 23:07

How often do we sit and question our gender or sexual identity? Is it always the same as the biological sex that we are born in? Can it be independent entity, irrespective of our biological sex? Most of us assume, for lack of further information that ..


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Quashing of proceedings u/s 498-A, IPC

  Swami Sadashiva Brahmendra Sar   07 July 2009 at 08:55

Section 498A of the IPC reads as follows: "498A. Husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty. Whoever, being the husband or the relative of the shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which ..


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is mens rea a sine qua non to prove the offence of bigamy?

  Raghav Singh   04 July 2009 at 23:23

Introduction:In classical Hindu law, the marriage among Hindus is a sacrament. It is not a subject of law, it is subject of morality. Manu said that let the mutual fidelity continue till death. He considered that marriage is the highest dharma of hu ..


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Prostitution-An Indian Perspective

  Vishal Gupta   04 July 2009 at 19:20

The problem of “Prostitution” an Indian perspectiveA prostitute is a person, "who allows her body to be used for lewd purposes in return for payment". Prostitution is the sale of sexual services, such as oral sex or sexual int ..


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CrPC s.154 and 156(3)-Judicial guidelines

  Swami Sadashiva Brahmendra Sar   01 July 2009 at 17:16

Recently a single judge of Allahabad High Court took serious note of lax attitude of police in registering FIRs and issued certain guidelines to the police officers and also to the magistrates regarding registration of FIR and investigation into the ..


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Sex change Operation and its legal consequences

  kartikeya    23 June 2009 at 16:06

In India, there are incidences, there seems to be no precedent, which deals with the issue of effect of sex change by a man or woman. However, the issue of sex change came before His Lordship in England and the case is reported in Corbett v. Corbett ..


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irtual Cheques - A Distant Reality

  G. ARAVINTHAN   22 June 2009 at 14:17

It was reported in Economic Times on the 20th February 2002 that the Reserve bank of India is setting up a task force to study and suggest an amendment to the Negotiable Instruments Act-1881 (NI Act) to make it feasible for issue of Negotiable Instru ..


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