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Woman burnt alive for dowry in Bihar

-PTI A young woman was burnt alive allegedly by her in-laws for dowry at Bari Gulni in Nawada district, police said on Tuesday.  It is suspected that kerosene was poured on Hema Devi (22) before she was set ablaze by her in-laws on Monday night for her father's falure to meet their dowry demand.  An FIR has been lodged against eight family members including her husband. ...

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Diluting a law by TK Rajalakshmi

The Law Commission recommends making Section 498A, IPC, compoundable, and women's groups say that would affect women's interests. A REPORT of the Law Commission of India on “Compounding of (IPC) Offences” suggesting that Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code, which prescribes punishment for a husband or his relatives for subjecting a woman to cruelty, be made compoundable with the permission of the court, is fraught with several implications. The report...

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Don't trash this law, the fault lies in non-implementation by Brinda Karat & Sabu George

There can be little quarrel with the argument that India requires a comprehensive policy to prevent sex selection as put forward by National Advisory Council members Farah Naqvi and A.K. Shiva Kumar in The Hindu (“India & the sex selection conundrum,” January 24, 2012). That the use of sex selection technologies to abort female foetuses is linked to the increasing devaluation and disempowerment of women is well known. It is...

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India & the sex selection conundrum by Farah Naqvi & AK Shiva Kumar

What was our immediate response to further decline in the child sex ratio in India? Within days of the provisional 2011 Census results (March-April 2011), the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare reconstituted the Central Supervisory Board for the Pre-conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex selection) Act 1994 , which had not met for 3 years, and on November 30, 2011 the Ministry of Women and Child Development...

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Law Commission wants dowry law toned down by Dhananjay Mahapatra

In what could raise the hackles of women's rights activists, the Law Commission has recommended to the Centre that the strict law dealing with dowry offences be made compoundable - a move that will allow an accused to escape a jail term by paying a fine. The recommendation to alter the tough provisions of Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code comes in the backdrop of Supreme Court suggesting it may...

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