Law Relating to Women and Children

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Description
This book contains recent important judicial pronouncements made by the Supreme Court and High Courts besides issues such as object and purpose of Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, live-in-relationship is not in nature of domestic relationship, daughter-in-law entitled to stay in shared house hold, dowry death will not ipso facto suck husband into net of Section 304-B, in case of dowry death general allegations of cruelty and harassment, matrimonial disputes-Family Court's duty to put conciliatory efforts, in case of divorce when adulterous behaviour not proved, Allegation that wife needed sexual intercourse five times in a day, does not amount to cruelty/sexual torture, unemployed husband not sufficient ground for granting divorce, Polygamy amounts to cruelty HIV positive is a vineral disease, divorce granted on medical ground aggrieved party alone entitled to seek decree of divorce, wife cannot demand partition of joint family property, to determine to case of juvenility holding inquiring is mandatory and addition to these sub-topics the provisions of the Criminal Laws Amendment Act, 2013 have been incorporated at relevant places with the view to make current edition on the subject worth of cause.
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Contents
Part I : Introduction
1.    Women under the Constitution of India
2.    Sexual Harassment of working women at work place
3.    Domestic Violence against women
4.    Women under the Indian Penal Code, 1860
5.    Indian Evidence Act, 1872
6.    Women under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - Maintenance
7.    Women and Personal Laws
8.    Industrial Law and Women
9.    Female Foeticide and Sex Determination Tests
10.  The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971
11.  The National Commission for Women Act, 1990
12.  The Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986
13.  Women under International Law
14.  The Sexual harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition)
       and Redressal Act, 2013 
15.  Other Legislations
Part : II : Law Relating to Child
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Author Details
Dr. S.C. Tripathi
Vibha Arora