08Oct 2018 by admin

Are Women Safe in India? – Essay

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Being in the 21st century, with technology and world so advanced, we still talk about this subject, “Are Women Safe, in India, especially?” With surveys and understandings of what is happening around us, it is time that the country joins hands together to realize that – ‘Women are NOT SAFE in any means in India’. There have many cases that have been reported and many unreported for the torture a woman undergoes, yet there has been nothing done to change the law or the system to the way a woman is being looked at. image source: upload.wikimedia.orgWomen have been advancing, progressing and have proved that they can beat men in any sector they are in. Be it sports, arts, science, politics, service or for that matter any where, she has…
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08Oct 2018 by admin

Punishment for Rape in India (Section 375 of IPC)

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Legal provisions regarding punishment for Rape under section 375 of Indian Penal Code, 1860.Rape: The word ‘rape’ is derived from the Latin term ‘rapio’, which means to seize. Thus, it literally means a forcible seizure and that is the essential characteristic feature of the offence. In common parlance, it means intercourse with a woman without her consent by force, fear or fraud. Image Source: pixel.nymag.com ADVERTISEMENTS: It is ‘the ravishment of a woman without consent, by force, fear or fraud’, or ‘the carnal knowledge of a woman by force against her will’. Sexual intercourse with the consent of a girl below the age of sixteen years also amounts to rape.Ordinarily, rape is violation, with violence of the private person of a woman – an outrage by all canons. It is…
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08Oct 2018 by admin

Kidnapping, abducting or inducing woman to compel her marriage, etc (Section 366 of IPC)

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Legal provisions regarding Kidnapping, abducting or inducing woman to compel her marriage, etc under section 366 of Indian Penal Code, 1860.Kidnapping, abducting or inducing woman to compel her marriage, etc: Section 366 of the Indian Penal Code provides that: “Whoever kidnaps or abducts any woman with intent that she may be compelled or knowing it to be likely that she will be compelled, to marry any person against her will, or in order that she may be forced or seduced to illicit intercourse, or knowing it to be likely that she will be forced or seduced to illicit intercourse, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine; and whoever, by means of criminal intimidation…
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08Oct 2018 by admin

7 Important Changes Brought about by Hindu Succession Act, 1956

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The Hindu Succession Act, 1956, brought about many important changes in the Hindu intestate succession of properties apart from introducing a uniform law of succession among Hindus, in the entire territory of India, These important changes can be enumerated as follows:— Image Source: drdivaphd.files.wordpress.com (1) Changes in the Hindu joint family: Firstly, under the pre-existent law in the Hindu joint family, a coparcener could not write in respect of his interest or property in the family. But Section 30 of the Hindu Succession Act enables a coparcener to write a will in respect of his property. Secondly, on the death of coparcener, the principle of survivorship was recognised. ADVERTISEMENTS: So that the property went to other coparceners. The widow or the daughter or daughter’s daughter of the pre-deceased coparcener cannot…
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08Oct 2018 by admin

Section 18 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872

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Admission by party to proceeding or his agent:Statements made by a party to the proceeding, or by an agent to any such party, whom the Court regards, under the circumstances of the case, as expressly or impliedly authorized by him to make them, are admissions. Image Source: justice.vic.gov.au ADVERTISEMENTS: By suitor in representative character:Statements made by parties to suits, suing or sued in a representative character, are not admissions, unless they were made while the party making them held that character.Statements made by:(1) Party interested in subject-matter: ADVERTISEMENTS: Persons who have any proprietary or pecuniary interest in the subject-matter of the proceeding, and who make the statement in their character of persons so interested, or(2) Person from whom interest derived:Persons from whom the parties to the suit have derived their…
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07Oct 2018 by admin

Psychiatry Question Bank – 85 Multiple Choice Questions with Answers

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85 Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) with Answers on “Psychiatry” for Psychiatry Post Graduate Students: image source: i.huffpost.com1. The one who has said that the seat of mind is in the brain: A. Galen ADVERTISEMENTS: B. HippocratesC. PlatoD. Aristotle ADVERTISEMENTS: 2. The one who developed theory of humors to explain moods and emotions: A. GalenB. MedunaC. Harlow ADVERTISEMENTS: D. Cullen3. Who coined the term neurosis? A. EsquirolB. William CullenC. Benjamin Rush D. William Sargant4. Who coined the term psychiatry? A. Johann WyerB. Johann ReilC. John ConollyD. Philippe Pinel5. Who is the founder of modern psychiatry? A. JED EsquirolB. PrichardC. MorelD. Griesenger6. Who coined the terms “catatonia, cyclothymia, Verbig­eration, and symptom complex”? A. KL KahlbaumB. KraeplinC. HeckerD. Esquirol7. Who coined the term dementia praecox? A. Emil KraeplinB. MorelC. WernickeD. Karlkiest8. Who coined…
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07Oct 2018 by admin

‘Testamentary Guardian’ – Section 9 of Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act 1956

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A testamentary guardian is one who is appointed by a will of the natural guardians of the minor. Father who is the natural guardian of his minor children can appoint guardian for them who are known as testamentary guardians. Section 9 of the Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956, relates to the testamentary guardians and their powers. Image Source: azizilaw.com ADVERTISEMENTS: Under old Hindu Law a testamentary guardian appointed by father could function even though when the mother was alive. But according to Section 9, even though the father has appointed a guardian if the mother is alive, she would be his guardian, and she also can appoint under her will a guardian of her own choice.But if the mother does not appoint any guardian, the appointment of the guardian…
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07Oct 2018 by admin

What are the Effects of Adoption under Present Hindu Law?

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According to the present law the adopted child is deemed to have merged with the family of the adoptive parents after severing all his or her relations with the natural family and he acquires all the rights and privileges with respect to marriage inheritence, partition, in the adoptive family. Image Source: yeattslawfirm.comHe is divested of all the rights in the natural family, from the date of adoption. It is presumed as if he had been born in the adoptive family. Under the Smriti law the adoption had the following two purposes:— ADVERTISEMENTS: (a) To perform the funeral, rites of the adoptive parents;(b) To perpetuate the family lineage of the adoptive father.Thus primary object of adoption was to extend spiritual benefit and the secondary object was to continue the lineage of…
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07Oct 2018 by admin

Conclusive Proof under the Indian Evidence Act, 1872

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There are three sections in the Act which deal with conclusive proof, viz., Ss. 41, 112 and 113. The contents of these sections are discussed below. Image Source: 3.bp.blogspot.com1. Judgments in probate and other jurisdictions (S. 41): ADVERTISEMENTS: A final judgment, order or decree of a competent Court, in the exercise of its.(i) Probate,(ii) Matrimonial,(iii) Admiralty, or ADVERTISEMENTS: (iv) Insolvency jurisdictionNot against any specified person, but absolutely (i.e., in rem)Is conclusive proof—(a) That any legal character ADVERTISEMENTS: (i) Which it confers, accrued at that time when such judgment, decree or order came into operation;(ii) Which it declares any such person to be entitled to, accrued to him at the time when such judg­ment, decree or order declares it to have accrued to him;(iii) Which it takes away from any person,…
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07Oct 2018 by admin

Presumption as to dowry deaths under Section 113-B of Indian Evidence Act

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Under S. 113-B, when the question is whether a person has committed the dowry death of a woman, and it is shown that, soon before her death she had been subjected by that person to cruelty or harassment in connection with any demand for dowry, the Court shall presume that such a person had caused the dowry death. (The term “dowry death” has the same meaning as in S. 504-B of the Indian Penal Code.) Image Source: kundansrivastava.comS. 113-B raises a presumption of guilt against any person who has been proved to have subjected the deceased woman, soon before her death, to cruelty or harassment, in connection with dowry. Needless to state, it is a presumption intended to be raised against the husband and his relatives in the case of…
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