The bench emphasised that courts must carefully consider whether relatives residing in different cities are being implicated merely to pressure the primary accused.
This paper propounds a contract-theoretic model where dowry acts as a screening device to differentiate gro
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.
The Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, is an Indian law enacted to prevent the giving or receiving of dowry in marriages.