Collective Violence against Women
JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA
SEMINAR PAPER, 2013.
TOPIC- CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN
(OBSCENITY, OUTRAGING THE MODESTY OF A WOMAN,
CRUELTY, DOWRY DEATH AND RAPE)
SUBMITTED TO – Prof. Rose Varghese
SUBMITTED BY – FARHEEN KHAN
LL.M. (1ST SEMESTER)
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ACKNOWLEDEMENT
I am highly delighted to work on the topic “CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN” under the guidance of our
SEMINAR PAPER Law Faculty Prof. ROSE VARGHESE. I am very grateful to her for her exemplary guidance. It won’t be fair if I don’t acknowledge all my friends, whose cooperation and advice this project was possible. Apart from all these, I want to give special thanks to the librarian of our university who made every relevant materials related to my topic available to me at the time of my busy research work and gave assistance to me. I would like to thank the publishers of all the text book and AIR which provided all the cases which I read for this purpose and the websites I visited during this period of research. And at last I am very much obliged to the God who provided us the potential for the rigorous research work.
This project is dedicated to my parents, who are solely responsible for making me capable for this work.
Farheen Khan
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METHODOLOGY OF RESEARCH
The topic of the Seminar Paper is “CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN” which covers specifically obscenity, outraging the modesty of woman, cruelty, dowry death and rape
(special emphasis). This project has been prepared in a very simple and lucid style. This project contains the laws regarding crimes against women in Indian as well as
International perspective covering most of the leading and recent cases of India as well as of other countries. In addition to it the recent legislations passed in this respect have also been mentioned in a descriptive manner. My project is fully based on research method dependent upon the research work of various scholars. This topic is of such a peculiar nature that one would not find many materials while
SEMINAR PAPER, 2013.
TOPIC- CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN
(OBSCENITY, OUTRAGING THE MODESTY OF A WOMAN,
CRUELTY, DOWRY DEATH AND RAPE)
SUBMITTED TO – Prof. Rose Varghese
SUBMITTED BY – FARHEEN KHAN
LL.M. (1ST SEMESTER)
1
ACKNOWLEDEMENT
I am highly delighted to work on the topic “CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN” under the guidance of our
SEMINAR PAPER Law Faculty Prof. ROSE VARGHESE. I am very grateful to her for her exemplary guidance. It won’t be fair if I don’t acknowledge all my friends, whose cooperation and advice this project was possible. Apart from all these, I want to give special thanks to the librarian of our university who made every relevant materials related to my topic available to me at the time of my busy research work and gave assistance to me. I would like to thank the publishers of all the text book and AIR which provided all the cases which I read for this purpose and the websites I visited during this period of research. And at last I am very much obliged to the God who provided us the potential for the rigorous research work.
This project is dedicated to my parents, who are solely responsible for making me capable for this work.
Farheen Khan
2
METHODOLOGY OF RESEARCH
The topic of the Seminar Paper is “CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN” which covers specifically obscenity, outraging the modesty of woman, cruelty, dowry death and rape
(special emphasis). This project has been prepared in a very simple and lucid style. This project contains the laws regarding crimes against women in Indian as well as
International perspective covering most of the leading and recent cases of India as well as of other countries. In addition to it the recent legislations passed in this respect have also been mentioned in a descriptive manner. My project is fully based on research method dependent upon the research work of various scholars. This topic is of such a peculiar nature that one would not find many materials while
Bibliography: The Indian Penal Code, 1860 The Constitution of India, 1950 Agency Swati Deva, Law and Inequalities- Contemporary Perspectives, 1st Edition(2010), Eastern Book Company Vandana, Sexual Violence Against Women, 2009 Edition, Lexis Nexis Butterworths