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For a fair deal -Kirti Singh

The amendment to the Marriage Laws Bill needs to be redrafted to ensure, among other things, greater economic rights for divorced women. SINCE the 1950s, successive amendments to different personal laws on marriage and divorce have mainly focussed on enlarging the grounds for divorce. In the 1960s and 1970s, cruelty and desertion and thereafter mutual consent were added as grounds for divorce in the Hindu Marriage Act (HMA) and the...

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Govt goes one step back on divorce laws-Himanshi Dhawan

Diluting women's share in marital property in the event of divorce, the government has sought to restrict the provision for `immoveable property' to residential assets, a move opposed by women's rights activists. The marriage amendment bill seeks to amend the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, and the Special Marriage Act, 1954, legislating a women's right to marital property acquired during the subsistence of marriage. The amendment cleared by the Union Cabinet recently...

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Jail, fines for 34 in fodder scam

-The Telegraph A CBI court today convicted 34 accused in one of the 53 fodder scam cases registered with it, awarding rigorous imprisonment sentences ranging from one to six years and slapping fines between Rs 10,000 to Rs 3 lakh. The court of CBI special judge II, D.C. Roy, found all the accused guilty of fraudulently withdrawing money from the Doranda treasury between 1980-90 with the help of fake invoices. The case (RC...

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“Amend statute for SC/ST promotion quota”-Gargi Parsai

Cutting across party lines, Rajya Sabha members on Thursday sought a constitutional amendment to provide for promotion quota in jobs for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the wake of the Supreme Court quashing the Uttar Pradesh government's decision in the matter. Replying to a short duration discussion, Minister of State for Personnel V. Narayanasamy said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was seized of the issue and the government was willing to...

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Rajasthan tops list of atrocities against Dalits-Prasad Nichenametla

Rajasthan has emerged as the state with the highest incidence of registered atrocities against Dalits across the country. In 2010, the state recorded 51.4 cases of atrocities against Dalits per lakh population under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Prevention of Atrocities Act. It had registered a similar number of cases in 2009 too. The latest data from the ministry of social justice and empowerment show that five states – Uttar...

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