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Empowerment of Indian women: Amendments in Hindu Succession act, 1956

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This Blog is written By Miss.  Vaasawa Sharma  Pursuing Ph.D. from Amity University, Gurugram. Abstract: In the ancient times, the position of women was very respectable and pious. In our epics such as Mahabharata and Ramayan, women have treated the root of Dharmas. She was always being given the position of between half of her husband. But with the advent of time, the position of women gradually declined. In the period of dharma shastras and Puranas, the girls were not given the proper opportunity to gain an education.   Many of our customs and traditions were in force which astonishingly made women suffer a lot. In the 21 st century, certain laws and regulations were made o give women, a better position and equal status with men. One such change includes the major amendment made in the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 in 2005 which has given rights to daughters in coparcenary property. Many other changes were also being made to improve the status of women in coparcenary property so that
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Virtuous law- unvirtuous application

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This Blog is written By Miss.  Isha Baloni , Student of  Maharishi University of Information Technology, Noida Introduction Everyone have a perception of the relation of morality and law. Why we all are obliged to follow the law? Because of moral duty or the fear of punishment from legal bodies. A rare common approach becomes a turning point for the relationship between law and moral virtue. Then the question arises whether it is virtuous for being obligatory to law. William Edmondson is one of the best supporters of the statement and also achieved its possibility. He defended an account of law- abidance as a virtue for pursuing it. Law should have built a virtue for all by establishing an example that everyone has one good reason to emulate. If the law can pursue it, then everyone can include artifacts, films, plays, and novels. Law is a model in itself as to express how it is a legal obligation on everyone and one of the sources of establishing morality in people’s lives. Law r
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Critical analysis UAPA: a gateway to the compromised national liberty

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This Blog is written By Mr. Utkarsh Arora , Student of  The ICFAI University, Dehradun Introduction Unlawful activities prevention Act (UAPA) was passed in 1967, on the National Integration council’s recommendation which was proposed and revoked twice. It was established as an anti-terrorism law, to avert the unlawful activities of some associations and to eternize the most honored sovereignty and integrity of India.  (1) The antiquity of Unlawful prevention activities Act can be traced back to British India. The Phrase “unlawful Association” was initially wielded in the “criminal law Amendment Act 1908” to criminalize the Indian National Movement. How were the “Unlawful Activities Prevention Act” Devised? The law came in the backdrops of 1962 china and 1965 Pakistan. The National Integration Council, (NIC: A Group of some senior politicians and public figures in India that sought ways to address these intricated problems of communalism, casteism, and regionalism) co-opted a
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Preventive detention laws in India - the emergent need to be seen in the light of Article 22 of the Constitution of India

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This Blog is written by Ms. Nandini Tripathy , Student of Symbiosis Law School,  Hyderabad. Introduction The Constitution of India has Fundamental Rights no longer just for normal citizens however also for prisoners and the accused who've been charged for some offense. Article 22 is one such Fundamental Right which safeguards the rights of individuals who have been arrested and detained for committing an offense. Fundamental Rights can be determined under Part III of the Constitution of India. Definition –   Subclause (1) of Article 22 says that “No a person who is arrested will be detained in custody without being informed, as quickly as can be, of the grounds for such arrest nor shall he be denied the right to consult, and to be defended by way of, a prison practitioner of his preference.”   The manner that if a person has been arrested cannot be detained without understanding his grounds of arrest, he shall not be denied the right to seek advice from and be defended vi
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Marital Rape - Behind the closed door

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This Blog is written by Ms. Nandini Tripathy , Student of Symbiosis Law School,  Hyderabad. Marital Rape refers to undesirable intercourse by means of a person along with his spouse obtained with the aid of pressure, the chance of force, or physical violence, or while she is unable to present consent. Marital rape can be using pressure best, a battering rape, or a sadistic/obsessive rape. It is a non-consensual act of violent perversion with the aid of a husband in opposition to the wife where she is bodily and sexually abused. Approximations have quoted that every 6 hours; a young married girl is burnt or beaten to death or pushed to suicide from emotional abuse by using her husband. The UN Population Fund states that greater than 2/3rds of married women in India, elderly between 15 to 49 has been beaten, raped, or compelled to offer sex. In 2005, 6787 cases were recorded of women murdered with the aid of their husbands or their husbands’ families. 56% of Indian ladies believed occ
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