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Kerala HC Declares Marital Rape as a Ground for Divorce

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Last week, a Division Bench of the Kerala High Court in Mat. Appeal No. 151 of 2015 held that marital rape is a good ground...
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An Oriental and Gender Perspective on Realisation and Creation of Property

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AUTHOR: Sayan Dasgupta Any theoretical formulation or analysis of property must at the outset be noted as to what can be a theory of property,...
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Gender Implications of Pre-Nuptial Agreements

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The sporadic distribution of persons, identity, culture, language has always been a part of the Indic civilization. This heterogeneity implied a myriad of personal laws;...
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Marital Rape: A Social and Legal Paradox

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Despite 75 years of independence, the social status of women in India still stands in shadows. Grievous crimes and alarming rates of pending cases portray...
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Dereliction Of The ‘Other Gender’: Deprivation Of Minor Male Sexual Assault Victims By The ‘Skin-Touch’ Doctrine

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COVID-19 has been a fertile spawning field of sexual violence. Where some Courts have been deontological and acknowledging of this phenomenon, certain judgments act as...