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  • Utkarsh Anand
    Hindustan Times
    2024

    The bench emphasised that courts must carefully consider whether relatives residing in different cities are being implicated merely to pressure the primary accused. 

  • Tripura Commission for Women
    Tripura Commission for Women
    2014

  • Soumyanetra Munshi.
    Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research
    2014

    This paper propounds a contract-theoretic model where dowry acts as a screening device to differentiate gro

  • Sherry Joseph
    International Conference on Preventing Violence, Caring for Survivors
    1998

    While talking about law and homosexuality, I am reminded of a story of a washerman and his donkey. The donkey refused to move with the heavy bundle of clothes on his back from his house to the pond. The washerman nailed a carrot to a stick, which was tied in front of the animal's mouth.

  • India

    The Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, is an Indian law enacted to prevent the giving or receiving of dowry in marriages.