This article is authored by G.S. Aurora. In the introductory part three basic questions posed by social scientist are discussed which are as follows – the first centres around the structure and function of relationships within or between groups or categories, the second is concerned with the relationship between an individual’s biography and the group’s…
Introduction For the purpose of administration of justice among the parties every court is deemed toposses all such powers as it is necessary to do complete justice to the parties concerned. Aninjunction is a judicial process whereby a party is required to do, or to refrain from doing,any particular act. It is a remedy in…
Pardon means the formal act of liberating someone. Every country has the right of pardoning. The court doesn’t take any emotions or history into consideration it strictly follows the law for the adjudication. Pardoning power proves to be an aid for correcting judicial errors. In a nutshell it means to consider the case beyond the…
“A nonfatal self-directed potentially injurious behaviour with any intent to die as a result of the behaviour” More than 7 lakh people die by suicide every year, which is one person every 40 seconds and almost 25 times as many do a suicide attempt. Over 139 thousand suicides were recorded in in in the year…
There has been a huge gap in the law to protect the lives of women through cases of domestic violence, which were limited to the private sector. The Domestic Violence Act, 2005 became a tool to end the lacuna and the scourge of domestic violence. The Domestic Violence Act, 2005 is India’s first major attempt…
UNDERSTANDING PATRIARCHY Patriarchy is a social system in which men have primary power and predominate in roles such as political leadership, moral authority, social privilege, and property control. Some patriarchal societies are also patrilineal, which means that property and title are passed down through the male lineage. Patriarchy is associated with a set of ideas,…
Rise in Domestic violence due to the Pandemic Introduction: Domestic violence, as defined by the World Health Organisation, is the intentional use of physical force or power, or threatening to use physical force or power against oneself, against another person, or against a group resulting or likely to result in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment…
NEGLIGENCE Negligence is the act or omission done by the offender carelessly due to which the harm is caused to the plaintiff. The harm can be physical harm, mental harm, economically loss, monetary loss, harm to property, harm to reputation etc. The harm caused to the plaintiff due to the negligence of the defendant he…
Introduction The advent of the internet has posed a threat to people in different ways. One of them is Copyright infringement. People can have access to millions of websites with just a click, post something on social media networks by altering somebody’s original work, a popular example of such alteration is the submission of research…
INTRODUCTION Mahatma Gandhi Employment Guarantee Act 2005 (or, NREGA No 42, later renamed as the “Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act” or MGNREGA), is an Indian labour law and social security measure that aims to guarantee the ‘right to work’. This act was passed in 23 August 2005[4] under the UPA government of Prime…
