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    NOTES AND COMMENTS Protection of Women from Domestic Violence: Legal Challenges and Issues
    (University of North Bengal, 2023-03) Choudhury, Mun; Dhar Sarkar, Madhumita
    Domestic Violence against the women is an age-old reality which is being inflicted upon women irrespective of age, caste and religion. Domestic violence can take the form of physical, sexual, emotional or psychological abuse by an intimate partner or former partner. Many women till date faces intimate partner violence behind the closed doors in our Indian society. Domestic Violence is a universal issue and it is a direct violation of women’s basic human rights. The feminist movement have played a major role in demands for legislative actions, changes in laws and criminal procedures and the sensitization of police and judiciary for the protection of women from domestic violence. Existence of domestic violence is morally unjustifiable and has a far deeper impact than the immediate harm caused on women. India implemented its first law i.e., The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence, 2005 to curb domestic violence.
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    Crime Against Senior Citizens in India: A Glaring Reality
    (University of North Bengal, 2020-09) Dhar Sarkar, Madhumita; Acharjee, Madhumita
    With the advent of human civilization a plethora of concepts developed simultaneously such as society, family and property. Another concept that was developing at the same time was crime. Crime has been defined differently by different scholars; one general meaning of crime is an act which is violation of public law and for which punishment is given by the state. Crime can be of different categories as the penal provisions provide for crimes against human body, property, state, public order and so on. The National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) in India which measures crime rate in India has introduced a new category under the heading crimes against senior citizens since 2014. This new entry makes it evident that senior citizens and parents are also subject to various crimes in our society. Senior citizens and parents are supposed to be maintained and taken care of. Instead, in the present times, many glaring examples of elderly abuse are in the limelight. The fact that NCRB has given entry to crimes against senior citizens only since 2014 does not signify that there was no crime against the elderly people before 2014. Rather, it indicates that there has been a steep rise in the number of reported cases against senior citizens recently. In this paper an attempt will be made to analyze the scenario of crimes against senior citizens by analyzing the statistics of National Crime Record Bureau of five years and by reviewing few leading newspaper articles covering the news of abuse or crime against senior citizens.