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		<title>Rehauling Sexual Assault Law in India</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comments on the Proposed Amendments to Criminal Law The Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2010 has been made available.  The Bill contains proposed amendments to two laws: the Indian Penal Code and the Criminal Procedure Code. The former is a substantive law while the latter is a procedural law. In other words, the Penal Code states what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Juveniles Defined: 2000 Law Applies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 08:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Juvenile Justice Act was passed in 1986. Fourteen years later, another Juvenile Justice Act was passed in 2000. Both of these Acts were meant to ensure that children who committed crimes were treated humanely and that they were given an adequate opportunity to reform themselves away from the influence of hardened criminals. One of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Incident of Ragging</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every once in a while, the news of a student dying because of ragging hits headlines. Usually, it&#8217;s followed by a few debates on the telly after which everyone but those involved in and affected by the issue forget all about it. Until the next time it happens. On March 16, 2009, the issue came [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Effect of Armed Rebellion on Children: Innocence Scarred</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sidhartha Jatar   Introduction There is a stark contrast between the two worlds that exist today: one world offers comfort and hope to children in an environment where their social and developmental needs can be attended to while the other deprives communities and societies of the stability required to meet these welfare needs. Children [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disciplining Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Janusz Korczak once said, "There are many terrible things in the world, but the worst is when a child is afraid of his father, mother or teacher."]]></description>
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		<title>Child&#8217;s Welfare of Paramount Importance to Decide Custody</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the case of Mausami Moitra Ganguli v. Jayant Ganguli, 2008, a Bench of the Supreme Court comprising Justices C K Thakker and D K Jain held that the child’s welfare is the primary factor in deciding in whose custody the child should be placed. The question in the case was whether the father or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Punishment to be Commensurate with Offence</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 12:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent case, a Bench of the Supreme Court comprising Justices Arijit Pasayat, P. Sathasivam and Mukundakam Sharma has held that capital punishment should be awarded only in cases where life imprisonment is altogether inadequate for the crime such as “when the murder is committed in an extremely brutal, grotesque, diabolical or dastardly manner [...]]]></description>
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