Pooja,* a 50-year-old daily wage labourer in Delhi, endured physical, verbal, and sexual violence from her husband for 30 years. During this period, she stayed in shelter homes more than once, but the lack of long-term alternative housing and support forced her back to her abusive matrimonial home. Each time she approached the state for help, officials pushed her towards reconciliation instead. After her fifteenth complaint, the state assigned her a legal aid lawyer. He spoke to her once and fil
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**Riyan Paul Mathew “The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons”, Dostoevsky reminds us that a society must be judged by how it treats its most vulnerable, but what do you make of a society which throws people in prison for long durations before they have even been convicted? […] The post The Invisibilisation of the Undertrial appeared first on Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy.
A bench comprising Justices Sanjay Karol and Ujjal Bhuyan said the age of the deceased person had to be determined from the date of birth mentioned in the school leaving certificate.