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    Environmental Victimology in Indian Jurisprudence
    (University of North Bengal, 2023-09) Singh, Gitu
    In view of the varied kinds of emerging wrongs/crimes the legal injury suffered by an individual, community or non-human due to environmental crime is referred to as Environmental Victimology. This study aims to find out the development of environmental victimology in India, which means through this study the institutional response pertaining to protection of victims of environmental crime in India would be traced out. The present study is an attempt to find how has the Indian legislature and judiciary perceived a person or community who has suffered a legal injury due to environmental crime i.e. whether they are considered as victim as defined under sec. 2w(a) of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 or a victim under specific environmental legislations or a person whose fundamental right has been infringed thereby providing a remedy under the Indian Constitution. Finding the answer to the above questions raised would help in in determining the scope of environmental victimology in India.
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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.