REPORTING OF RAGGING INCIDENTS IN COLLEGES AND ITS LEGAL CONSEQUENCES
INTRODUCTION Ragging presents a significant social and legal challenge within many Indian educational institutions. Under the pretext of introduction or interaction, senior students often harass, degrade, or physically or psychologically abuse junior students. Over time, ragging has escalated into grave forms, sometimes leading to severe physical harm, profound psychological distress, or even death among students. […]
How to file a ‘Special Marriage Act’ application for inter-faith marriage?
Introduction In a country as pluralistic as India, which is home to dozens of faiths, codified personal laws and highly institutionalized social customs, marrying across religious boundaries is a tough prospect, both legally and socially. Love, as the human experience makes clear, has no dogmatic boundary to act within; and yet the law has historically […]
Condemned by Caste, Failed by Law: The Rights of Manual Scavengers and the Chasm Between Constitutional Promise and Ground Reality in India
Condemned by Caste, Failed by Law: The Rights of Manual Scavengers and the Chasm Between Constitutional Promise and Ground Reality in India Abstract Manual scavenging—the manual removal of human excreta from dry latrines, sewers, septic tanks, and railway tracks—endures as one of the most constitutionally irreconcilable realities of contemporary India. Despite the unambiguous abolitionist […]
How to Report Caste-Based Discrimination- A Practical Guide to the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989
INTRODUCTION: When the Wound Has a Name Imagine waking up one morning and finding that someone has dumped animal carcasses at your doorstep — not as some random act of aggression, but as a calculated message about who they believe you are. Or picture a young woman fresh out of college, qualified and capable, told […]
A Study on Punishment for Medical Negligence under the New Criminal Law (BNS)
Introduction The introduction of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS) marks a significant shift in India’s criminal justice system, replacing the Indian Penal Code, 1860 that had governed criminal law for over a century. This reform aims to modernize legal provisions, ensure greater accountability, and address contemporary challenges. One such critical area is medical negligence, […]
Can the Police Refuse to Register an FIR? Legal Remedies for Citizens
Can the Police Refuse to Register an FIR? Legal Remedies for Citizens By Shweta Kumari Singh The First Information Report (FIR) is a crucial legal instrument in the criminal justice system of India. It represents the first step in initiating criminal proceedings and plays a vital role in ensuring that justice is accessible to all […]
REPORTING CYBERSTALKING AND ONLINE HARASSMENT TO THE INDIAN CYBER CRIME CELL: A PRACTICAL GUIDE
Introduction Cyberspace, or the virtual world, is the new reality of the era. It is a digital space creating a platform that connects people around the globe with the help of the internet. With features like better connection, accessibility, permanence, storage, and many more, the reliance on the digital world has become integral to day-to-day […]
Handling an Income Tax Notice for Undisclosed Income
Handling an Income Tax Notice for Undisclosed Income Rights, Risks, Strategy and the Law Aditi Gupta ABSTRACT Few messages arrive bearing the weight an income tax notice making a claim of undisclosed income can bring. The experience is bewildering for the recipient not only of the consequences of the Act, but for the way […]
Starting a Business in India: The Reality of Trade Licensing and Its Constitutional Debate”
Starting a Business in India: The Reality of Trade Licensing and Its Constitutional Debate” ABSTRACT :Starting something new is filled with mix of emotions excitement combined with fear to navigate but to build something you need to look past and take a step forward. That such time a guide helps to ease and efficiently […]
WHAT IS THE ‘SMALL CLAIMS COURT’ AND HOW DOES IT WORK ?
Introduction The administration of civil justice in every legal system seeks to balance two equally important objectives. The first objective is to ensure fairness, due process, and reasoned adjudication. The second is to make justice accessible, timely, and affordable for ordinary citizens. In practice, however, these objectives often come into tension. Formal civil litigation is […]