By Madhubala Solanki Editor’s Note: Waqf is very unique and beneficial for poverty alleviation programmes. This project will portray the meaning and essential elements of a valid waqf, evolution of the concept of waqf and various kinds of waqf under Muslim law. In this project conseqences of waqf will be […]
Maternal Mortality in India
Digvijay Singh Editor’s Note: In developing countries like India, maternal mortality ratio is still very high. Different socio demographic factors are responsible beside the medical factors for this high ratio. Government of India has taken many steps for the improvement of health of pregnant and nursing women and women in […]
Reducing Maternal Mortality in India
By Digvijay Singh Introduction The estimates of the present decade show that worldwide each year nearly half a million women die from complications during pregnancy and childbirth. About 99% of these women belong to the developing world with over 90% concentrated in Africa and Asia. The current maternal mortality ratio […]
Case Comment : Tajju Khan Vs. Mazhar Khan
By Siddharth Dalabehera INTRODUCTION The ‘gift’ is a transfer of property where interest is transferred from one living person to another, without any consideration. It is a gratuitous and inter vivos in nature. This is the general definition that is accepted by all the religions, including Muslim law. As per the Muslim […]
Need For Uniform Civil Code
By Yudhajeet Sinha Current Status of Uniform Civil Code in India: The view of the Indian Constitution The term Uniform Civil Code infers the same set of common laws to oversee all people groups independent of their religion, caste, and tribe. The arenas secured under it are the laws identified with […]
Illegitimacy under Hindu Law
Illegitimate means “something which is contrary to law”. Illegitimate children as understood are those children who are not born out of a lawful wedlock. Not just the society but even the law has discriminated against them in many ways. However, with the emergence of a group of people in the society who are rational and liberal in their outlook and do not consider illegitimacy as a stigma, the laws are also being amended accordingly.
Right to Claim Maintenance
By Garima, Institute of Law, Nirma University, Gujarat Editor’s Note: During the subsistence of the first marriage entering into a second marriage is illegal in India and the relationship arises from the same is held to be void. The law has been very clear on this point. Yet, second marriages are […]
No Fault Theory Of Divorce
By Sumit Kumar Suman, CNLU Introduction Under the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 both the husband and the wife have been given a right to get their marriage dissolved by a decree of divorce on more than one grounds specifically enumerated in Section 13. Some of the grounds initially inserted were substituted and some more grounds came […]
Coparcenary rights of females under Hindu law
Anonymous Editor’s note: This project will essentially deal with the rights of women as coparceners. Prior to 2005, the system of coparcenary consisted exclusively of male members. The scenario changed largely after the implementation of the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005, eliminating the gender based discrimination and the difficulty it […]
The Right to Property of Hindu Women
By Ayushi Singhal, NUJS INTRODUCTION It is common knowledge that the Indian society is predominantly patriarchal and the preferential rights given to men with respect to property, both movable and immovable, are just another manifestation of the male centric societal structure. Giving women the right to inherit, own, use and […]
Partition under Land Laws of Punjab
By Harpreet Kaur, UILS, Chandigarh “Editor’s Note: Partition is an important subject under land laws. This paper seeks to examine the land laws governing partition in the state of Punjab, by studying the provisions of the Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1889. It studies the concept of partition, the rights of […]