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COMMENTARY – OPINION:   IPC 193 provides punishment for perjury for up to 7 years along with other serious crimes, eg., Rape! Yet, there are our “learned Legal Experts” that belie..

How often do we sit and question our gender or sexual identity? Is it always the same as the biological sex that we are born in? Can it be independent entity, irrespective of our biological sex? Most of us assume, for lack of further information that our overall sexuality that includes our sex, gender, sexual orientation and sexual behavior are all determined ..

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  Introduction: In classical Hindu law, the marriage among Hindus is a sacrament. It is not a subject of law, it is subject of morality. Manu said that let the mutual fidelity continue till dea..

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Recently a single judge of Allahabad High Court took serious note of lax attitude of police in registering FIRs and issued certain guidelines to the police officers and also to the ..

 In India, there are incidences, there seems to be no precedent, which deals with the iss..

It was reported in Economic Times on the 20th February 2002 that the Reserve bank of India is setting up a task force to study and suggest an amendment to the Negotiable Instruments Act-1881 (NI Act) to make it feasible fo..

 Advent of cheques in the market have given a new dimension to the commercial and corporate world, its time when people have preferred to ..

 Relevant provisions of the Evidence Act are as under: "113-A. Presumption ..

Section 362 Cr. P.C. clearly bars the court to alter or review its judgment or final order except to correct a clerical or arithmetical error. What is clerical or arithmetical error has been explained by Hon'ble Apex Court/st1:address..

Criminal courts have no inherent powers as compared to civil courts which has been conferred to set aside ex parte  judgment or order and to review its own order under the provisions of C.P.C. There is no such corresponding provision in..

             In Criminal Misc. Application no. 4214 of 2007 Khalid Ahmad Khan v. State of U.P. and another  an application was mo..

 In view of the above, the Supreme Court has laid down the following guidelines for the trial of rape cases: p style="font-family: arial, verdana; text..