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The Supreme Court of India upheld, in the Rev. Stainislaus case of 1977, the laws criminalising conversion by force, fraud and allurement. Although this targets forcible conversion, the laws can be misused.

U.P. ordinance on “love jehad” criminalises conversion

The U.P. ordinance on “love jehad” not only places tremendous hurdles in the way of inter-religious marriages but also criminalises conversion even if

Hidden agenda behind criminal law reforms?

The urgency to start work on criminal law reforms in the time of a pandemic, without adequate engagement with the marginalised and other groups that a

NEW DELHI, 23/01/2013 :Justice J. S. Verma, former Chief Justice of India, flanked by Justice (Retd.) Leila Seth, former Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court (left) and Gopal Subramanian, former Solicitor General of India, addressing the media after submitting a report to suggest tougher laws for crimes against women , in New Delhi on January 23, 2013. Photo: V_Sudershan

A law on test

The case against Tarun Tejpal will test the effectiveness of the amended law on rape and sexual assault.

New Delhi 14/06/2008. -- A view of DTC Air Condition Bus in New Delhi 2008 . Photo Anu Pushkarna

Reluctant state

THE recent incident of gang rape of a 23-year-old girl by six men in a moving bus in Delhi triggered a nationwide response from citizens, including wo

Lambadi, or Banjara, tribal couple Vadthya Sukhya and Vadthya Achio with 11 of their children in front of their home in Nalgonda in Andhra Pradesh on October 21, 2011. The couple wanted a male child and had 12 girls before Achio gave birth to twin boys.-NOAH SEELAM/AFP

Mans world, legally

Son preference continues to be a part of the legal structure and government policy.

BRIDES WAITING FOR the start of a mass wedding ceremony in Ahmedabad on October 24, 2010. Women often oppose divorce petitions filed by their husbands because they have no viable economic alternative outside marriage.-SAM PANTHAKY/AFP

For a fair deal

The amendment to the Marriage Laws Bill needs to be redrafted to ensure, among other things, greater economic rights for divorced women.

Under the 'separation of property' regime, wives have no right to assets not acquired in their names.-PARTH SANYAL

Left in the lurch

It is a widely acknowledged fact that Indian women are not regarded as equal partners of their husbands. Neither law nor policy views their work withi

Minor offence?

THE molestation case of a minor girl by the former Director General of Police of Haryana, S.P.S. Rathore, reflects in a microcosm many of the ills tha

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