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This article explores the legal understanding of “untouchability” as can be inferred from Constituent Assembly Debates and judicial pronouncements, and the drastic shift in this understanding after the Sabarimala verdict of 2018.[3] It analyses the various amendments proposed to define the practice and why they were rejected and the subsequent judicial interpretations of the term as caste-based discrimination. It examines Chandrachud J.’s recent expansive interpretation of the term to include any form of social exclusion founded on notions of purity and the viability of such an interpretation.

In the present article the author focuses on the causes of Custodial violence and the landmark cases where guidelines have been given for providing safeguards and suggestions to prevent such crimes by the police officers.

Rupali Gupta ~ Law College Dehradun. Right to strike The word ‘strike’ comes from ‘strican’, to go’ which suggests to quit, hit or impress just as in the case of a trade dispute. It is the foremost effective and final

By Prathana Patel ~ GLS Law College. “I personally do not understand why religion should be given this vast, expansive jurisdiction    so as to cover the whole life and to prevent the legislature from encroaching upon that field. After all,

By Rupali Gupta ~ Law College Dehradun What is Abortion? Abortion is the closure of a physiological state by evacuation or ejection of a partner incipient organism. Abortion happens without intercession is perceived as an unnatural birth cycle or “unconstrained abortion”