Author: Shefali Awasthi & Shambhavi Upadhyay are students at the University School of Law and Legal Studies, GGSIPU. Introduction Sexual abuse especially related to children is considered to be one of the most heinous atrocities that is prevalent globally. Recently, the issue came to the limelight when the parliament of Madagascar, a nation in the... Continue Reading →
It was in January, 2023 that the women wrestlers had begun protesting for investigation into the allegations of sexual harassment of female wrestlers by the President of the Wrestling Federation of India. However, on 20th July, a Delhi Court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of the Rouse Avenue Courts has granted bail to the outgoing... Continue Reading →
Introduction Ever since the 2022 gruesome murder of Shraddha Walker, there has been a sudden rise in similar kinds of incidents throughout the nation. Shraddha Walker was not only murdered, but her body dismembered, kept in a fridge and slowly disposed of in Delhi’s Mehrauli forest by Aftab Poonawala, her live-in partner. The recent murder... Continue Reading →
Society and Crime; these terms sound antithetical to one another, yet both seemingly cannot exist without the other. No society that ever existed throughout time, regardless of its political, religious, or social structure, can claim to be crime-free. After all, it is society from which crime. There would be no crime against property if we... Continue Reading →
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