The virility of Muslim men vis-à-vis men from other religious communities have often been used as a political tool and to create a divisive agenda just before elections for getting votes from the majority of the Indian electorate who are Hindus. Instead of focusing on positive agendas like human development, employment generation, and poverty reduction, political campaigns just before the elections oftentimes reduce to mere communal propaganda (when a lot...
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Child marriage cases in India filed mostly against elopement, not forced unions, study says -Raghav Bikhchandani
-ThePrint.in A Delhi-based legal resource group says its study analyses district and high court case law pertaining to child marriage in India between 2008 and 2017. New Delhi: Child marriage cases in India have primarily been filed against incidents of elopement, as opposed to arranged or forced marriages, revealed a new study that aims to understand if the existing legislation — Prohibition of Child Marriage Act — serves its purpose. Delhi-based ‘legal resource...
More »Allahabad HC says previous orders on interfaith marriages not ‘good law’ -Asad Rehman
-The Indian Express This assumes significance as Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had cited this order while announcing he would bring a law on 'love jihad'. Quashing an FIR that accused a Muslim man of abducting a Hindu woman and forcefully marrying her after converting her to Islam, the Allahabad High Court has said that “two adults are free to choose their partner” and that it is their right to freedom...
More »Unsafe as houses: The family is a site of violence against women
-The Telegraph Of the 87,000 female homicides in 2017, 58 per cent were perpetrated by intimate partners and family members The most dangerous place for women, according to a United Nations report on gender-related killing of women and girls, is their home. Of the 87,000 female homicides in 2017, 58 per cent were perpetrated by intimate partners — past or present — and family members. This throws the cold light of day...
More »Make law to protect those in inter-caste marriages, says Supreme Court -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Reading the riot act, the Supreme Court on Tuesday said it was "absolutely illegal" for anyone to attack couples marrying outside their caste and warned the government that if it did not bring a legislation to protect such couples, the court would lay down guidelines. Referring a couple of times to the murder of Nitish Katara by the kin of the girl he was in love...
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