Crime
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The Legality of Compounding in Rape Cases: The Unlawful Compromise (Part I)
In this Bipartite blog series, the author carefully analyses and examines the line of cases allowing and not allowing compounding in cases of rape. The conflicting decisions by various High… Read more.
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CBI at Work – How CBI takes up Investigation
“Let’s order investigation by CBI. Time for handing over the investigation to CBI.” These lines are often heard among masses and appear on a daily basis in every major print… Read more.
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Re-thinking Child Abuse, Determinants of Parenting and Neglect
INTRODUCTION In India, child abuse is at its infant stage as a social issue that requires attention and intervention. The bodily, sexual or mental abuse, particularly by the caretakers or… Read more.
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Failure to Act: The Zero FIR
Since the working of Print and Electronic Media, there is one topic who has always found itself “Indisputably” in the list of top trending and it seems that people either… Read more.
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The Unnao and Surat Rape Case: Vulnerability of witnesses in criminal trials and the need for effective legislation
There is an element of difference between a victim and a witness of crime. A witness of crime may not necessarily be the victim, and the victim is not always… Read more.
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Adequacy of Punishment in Rape Cases
Rape as defined by the Supreme Court in Bodhisattwa Gautam v. Ms. Shubhra Chakraborty[1] is not only a crime against the body of a woman (victim), it is a crime… Read more.
