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  • Mihir Desai
    People’s Union of Civil Liberties
    2020

    On 11th August, 2020 the Times of India reported that on 9th August 8 prison staff in Taloja prison, Navi Mumbai had tested positive.

  • HAQ: Centre for Child Rights
    HAQ: Centre for Child Rights
    2020

    On 12th December 2019, Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 was signed into law, leading to widespread protests across the country.

  • Vibhuti Patel
    Centre for Social Studies
    2019

    This monograph is guided by f

  • Arijeet Ghosh, Madhurima Dhanuka
    The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
    2019

  • P.M. Damodaran
    Deccan Herald
    1999

    It was in Deorala village in Rajasthan on September 3, 1987 that the last incident of sati was reported. Then an 18-year-old Roop Kanwar had committed sati by jumping into the funeral pyre of her 23-year-old Rajput husband, Maal Singh.

  • Jayanthi Natarajan
    The Hindu
    1999

    It is unfortunate that a measure of confusion has set in about the precise nature and ramifications regarding the immolation - whether self, sati, or otherwise of the 55-yearold Charan Shah on the funeral pyre of her husband at Satpura in Uttar Pradesh on November 11.

  • Subhashini Ali
    The Hindu
    1999

    The self-immolation by Charan Shah on the funeral pyre of her husband in a remote hamlet in Mahoba district in Uttar Pradesh has elicited a spate of articles dealing with the practice of Sati. Of these, a number of articles by Ms.

  • Susan Abraham
    The Lawyers
    1997

    As with Bhanwari Devi, gross injustice was committed in the Roop Kanwar sati case, when yet another session court in Rajasthan, acquitted all 32 of the accused in October last year.

  • Paryay
    Issues in Medical Ethics
    1994

    Hysterectomy is major surgery with a mortality rate of 1-2 per 1000 operations and an even higher complication rate. There is a widespread misconception, even among doctors that removal of the uterus, without removal of the ovaries has little or no long-term health consequences for the woman.

  • India

    The Commission of Sati (Prevention) Act, 1987, is an Indian law enacted to prevent and punish the practice of sati, where a widow immolates herself on her husband's funeral pyre.