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Homosexuality in India (Legal Analysis) Swanroyali_k It takes great courage to say, I am a homosexual. It needs even greater humbleness to put up with the statement: What did you say? You are a homosexual. The complexity of the homosexual behavior generates an obvious question in my mind as to why society looks down upon deviant sexual orientations like homosexuality. Is it because the homose..

Procedure for Criminal Trial By Prakash Pillai It is believed that the Court procedure in India is very long and takes lot of your time. However, it is not so. Infact the procedure of trial is very short. The manpower which is required to speed up trial is very less. There is no point in cursing the people who do justice. It is the system which we require to change. More Courts, more Judg..

Section 498A was introduced in 1983 to protect women from cruelty and harassment by her in-laws. Nevertheless it has undeniably morphed into an extortion racket which is only growing by the day. 3,90,397 persons (of which 87,830(22.5%) were women themselves!!!) were arrested under Section 498A in 2004, 2005 & 2006 as per the data published by the National Crime Research Bureau(NCRB). So ove..

 Presently, there are no legislative enactments or statutory policies against sexual harassment and abuse at work places. Sexual harassment includes any unwelcome sexually determined behavior including sexually colored remarks, verbal or non-verbal conduct of sexual nature. In the absence of an enacted law to provide for the effective enforcement of gender equ..

Every 60 minutes, two women are raped in this country. What is more horrendous is that 133 elderly women were sexually assaulted last year, according to the latest report prepared by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).  A total of 20,737 cases of rape were reported last year registering a 7.2 per cent increase over the previous year, with Madhya Pradesh becoming the ..

India - Understanding the Khairlanji Verdict S. ANAND The Khairlanji Verdict, in which six persons were awarded the death penalty for the massacre of dalits, is anything but historic. In treating the massacre as a purely criminal act, it actually masks caste realities. On September 24, 2008, judge S.S. Das of the ad hoc sessions court in Bhandara district, Maharashtra, pronounced the death se..

A majority of the kidnappings done in the city have a personal motive behind them. The kidnappers are either distant relatives, friends of the victim’s family or business rivals. The city, which reported 84 cases of kidnapping and extortion last year, has a history of kidnappings some of which have even gone unreported. “When gangsters like Asai Thambi and Vellai Ravi were active, they used ..

They can at best treat the symptoms; they cannot cure the disease.We still run our police establishment on the basis of a law enacted in 1861A model police act is available in the Home Ministry website for States to adoptThe deafening clamour for stringent laws to deal with terrorism appears to be leading to legislative output whose conception is hinged on the hope that it will el..

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INTRODUCTION Every object, natural or manmade, has an individuality, which is not duplicated in any other object .It is unique. Neither the nature has duplicated itself, nor man can. This is the law of individuality, which is of fundamental importance in forensic science. Anything and everything..

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Is narco-analysis test reliable?  A brief outline of the narco-analysis test:   The narco-analysis test is conducted by mixing three grams of Sodium Pentothal or Sodium Amytal dissolved in 3000 ml of distilled water. Narco test refers to the practice of administering barbiturates or certain other chemical s..