The IPC specifically provides that whoever, being the husband or the relatives of the husband of a woman, subjects such woman to cruelty shall be punished with imprisonment, fine or both. Cruelty includes both physical and mental torture. Cruelty, has also been mentioned as one of the grounds of divorce…
By separating the state from the church and advocating tolerance for other faiths, the West is accredited for gifting secularism to the world. However, the fact is that what is introduced is only pseudo secularism while the Indian ethos is of true secularism. The Indian ethos is of henotheism, that…
The writ of Habeas Corpus is a process by which an individual who has been deprived of his personal liberty by an executive act, may have the validity of such an act tested before a superior court. Habeas Corpus is thus a bulwark of personal liberty. The writ is in…
Separation of power has been a well established principle of the legal system of India. However, in reality it is seen that only the judiciary enjoys a complete independence, but it is never possible for the legislature and the executive to work absolutely independently. One of the major reasons for…
Judicial punishment can never be administered merely as a means for promoting another good, either with regard to the criminal himself or to civil society, but must in all cases be imposed only because the individual on whom it is inflicted has committed a crime.[1] For one man ought never…
