You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women” - Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Introduction Women are considered as a vulnerable group in India as well as all over the world. Although women occupy half of the

Indian Constitution guarantees right to life in Article 21 which lays down that no person shall be deprived of his life or personal liberty except according to procedure established by law. Right to life would be meaningless unless medical care is

I deem it a great privilege to have been asked to preside over the All India Seminar at Lucknow being held under the auspices of Indian Society of Lawyers. The topics which are going to be the subject matter of discussion in the Seminar include th

Youth unrest in a way is a most natural phenomenon. Unrest is a part of the youth. Youth, as observed by Will Durant, is as confident and improvident as a god. It loves excitement and adventure. It loves the superlative, the exaggerated, the limit

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing from them to trees.   KHALIL GIBRAN   The exact scope and extent of the Attorney-Client Privilege (Referred to as the Privilege) is still in cont

Child labour and exploitation has reached alarming proportions throughout the length and breadth of the country. Sivakasi, the less known town in down South which literally lights millions of homes with its match industry and lights up the whole c

A question has been asked : “Take two of the rights guaranteed under Art. 19 (1) (f) and (g). Can it be suggested that a corporation which, let us assume, is Indian in every sense of its term — its shareholders, are Indians, its directors are

Since the independence of India and incorporation of part III in the Constitution of India people at large have grown highly conscious about the infringement of their fundamental rights and applications under cl. 226 in High Courts are of daily oc

Such sorts of crimes are not apparent or visible on the surface but act remains under-neath, deep rooted not being disastrous to the individuals but to the society at large specially having much pressure on the exchequer, In the fifties just after

To curb the menace and cruelties to women being the weaker sex several legislations have been enacted in India, i.e. Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code, Section 113-A of the Evidence Act, Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, Dowry Pro

The word ‘property’ is a slightly evasive word. Absolute property in the sense of unlimited right of disposal hardly exists. A man, under our present laws, has no absolute property even in his own life; he is restrained from suicide and punish

Section 10 (l) (b) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 955, provides that either party to a marriage, whether solemnised before or after the commencement of the Act, may present a petition to the District Court praying for a decree of judicial separation o

Not the brutality of treatment or the rigour of labour or the horror of death that would be reformatory, but the softening of the subtle sense sharpening the intellect, shaping the sentiments and sensing the virtuous way through repentance and ret

“The ability of the World Wide Web to penetrate every home and community across the globe has both positive and negative implications — while it can be an invaluable source of information and means of communication, it can also override commun

Social sciences have reached a point of development where their investigations into socially undesirable and prohibited behaviour should be liberated from the fetters of juridical positivism.   Of course, a criminal is primarily and disti

  Freedom of speech and expression is the fundamental right guaranteed under the Constitution of India. Digital age has changed the whole scene. There is need to look at the freedom of speech from the Internet and Digital technologies p

The term Human Rights covers in its ambit those essential rights, defined or undefined which lead and contribute to the balanced development of Human Individual. The concept of Human Rights in modern times can be traced to Natural Law philosophers

Rights that are inherent in our basic human nature, without which we cannot sustain as human beings are “Human Rights”. During the two World Wars, atrocities committed on Political and Ethnic minorities shocked the conscience of entire world a

“Sam will not enjoy his childhood...   Sam is being educated not so as to enjoy himself, but so that other people will enjoy him.1”   Childhood, a stage of human life that is full of innocence, selflessness, playfulness, joy

Media has a vital role to play in the protection of Human Rights and has been playing this role throughout in every corner of the world. It is the responsibility of the media that it should bring the cases of violation of Human Rights to the notic

Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, irrespective of their nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, language, or any other status. We are all equally entitled to our human rights without d

On the question of abuse of official's power for collateral purposes several persons have pleaded in the past to ensure such a system as would effectively prevent abuse of civil servant's authority by political bosses or the Government in

Organised crime is, as its name implies, a highly cohesive, well integrated and structured form of criminal behaviour. It has characteristics of a modern business enterprise organisation (mob, gang or outfit), division of labour, specialisation of

The Islamic Jurisprudence was imported into India by Muslim Sultans and later on adopted by Mughals with certain modifications to suit circumstances of the age and to satisfy needs of the people of the time. The Muslim system of criminal law was a

I consider it a great privilege and I feel a sense of immense delight to have been invited to address “Prabir Palit Memorial Lecture, 2013”.  I knew late Palit from 1974 when four of us studying in post-graduate and undergraduate classes in R