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भारत में विवाह, तलाक और उत्तराधिकार जैसे मुद्दों पर अलग-अलग व्यक्तिगत कानून लागू होते हैं। ऐसे में समान नागरिक संहिता की मांग फिर चर्चा में है। क्या UCC सभी नागरिकों को समान अधिकार देगा या धार्मिक-सांस्कृतिक स्वतंत्रता को चुनौती देगा? यही संतुलन इस लेख का प्रमुख प्रश्न है?

The Supreme Court of India upheld the right of a Scheduled Tribe woman and her legal heirs to inherit ancestral property even in the absence of a legal enactment or custom governing the same. The issue arose as the appellant-plaintiffs, being the legal heirs of a tribal woman belonging to the Gond community, were denied succession rights of the property belonging to their maternal grandfather when the defendants refused the partition of the property.

An article on legal framework and policy gaps in addressing political, medical and engineering white collar offences in India.

For decades, the law saw gender through a narrow lens — male or female, him or her, sir or madam. In this binary world, millions lived invisible lives, unnamed and unacknowledged. Their existence lingered in the margins of paperwork and public spaces alike. Then came NALSA v. Union of India (2014) — a judgment that did not just recognize a community but redefined what it means to be human in the eyes of the Constitution.

Justice, at its purest, is meant to illuminate truth. Yet, there are times when that very light casts shadows—where the innocent are condemned and the guilty walk free. Wrongful convictions are not just legal errors; they are psychological tragedies that scar individuals and corrode the moral fabric of society.

When we speak of justice in India, we often picture the courtroom — the arguments, the verdict, the gavel. Rarely do we imagine what follows: the slow decay of humanity behind the iron bars of a prison. Yet, justice does not end at conviction; it continues in the conditions of confinement. The idea of punishment in a constitutional democracy must harmonize with dignity, not diminish it.