The maintenance law of Muslim divorced women is used by the Muslim husband as a weapon to protect themselves from the liability of maintaining their wives. Prior to amendment, as per section 125 Cr.P.C. (Criminal Procedure Code), maintenance is granted only to the ‘Wife’ and therefore the husband started taking defence that the divorced…
Female feticide–the selective abortion of female fetuses–is killing upwards of one million females in India annually with far-ranging and tragic consequences. Foeticide is an act that causes death of the fetus. In a legal context it is referred as ‘Fatal Homicide’ or ‘Child destruction’. India is the only country of…
Capital punishment, Death Penalty, or execution is the infliction of death upon a person by judicial process as a punishment for an offence. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. The practice of capital Punishment is as old as government itself.…
The case of M.C. Mehta v. Union of India[1] originated in the aftermath of oleum gas leak from Shriram Food and Fertilisers Ltd. complex at Delhi. This gas leak occurred soon after the infamous Bhopal Gas Leak disaster and created a lot of panic in Delhi. The case lays down…
From the ‘Brahmcharya’ stage of ‘Chaturashram’ to our present globalized world the concept of ‘Education’ has gone through various stages of social transformation. In the words of Mr. Will Durant education is the “transmission of civilization”. Without education a man is so circumstanced that he knows not how to make…
