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Submission To:
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swati sharma
Roll no:- 37
I Semester
Certificate
This is to certify that swati sharma , student of B.A. LL.B of S.S.JAIN Subodh
law College, Jaipur has competed his project on PERSONAL LAW OF HINDU
AND MUSLIMS Under the guidance of Mr.samarat datta , Assistant Professor,
Administrative Law, S.S.JAIN SUBODH LAW COLLEGE.
This project is an original, independent work to the best of my knowledge and has
not been published anywhere and has been pursued solely for academic interest.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This project is incomplete without thanking a few people who have been my pillar
of support throughout this work. I owe my gratitude to all those people who have
made this project possible.
I would like to express my deep and sincere gratitude to my teacher
Mr.SAMARAT DATTA His continuous support. He has always been there to
listen, guide and help me kout and has been constantly monitoring the progress of
my work and has been showed me the different way to approach a research
problem and also need to be persistent to accomplish any goal
I am also obliged to acknowledgement the administration for providing a
wonderful library which is a storehouse of knowledge and also providing for the
invaluable electronic resource without which no such research is ever possible.
Finally, I would like to thank everybody who was important to the successful
completion of my dissertation, as well as expressing my apology that I could not
mention everybody personally.
INTRODUCTION
1.1.1 According to the Statement of Objects and Reasons, the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill,
2012 seeks to amend the Indian Penal Code, 1860, the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 and the
Indian Evidence Act, 1872. On the basis of the recommendations of the Law Commission of
India made in its One Hundred Seventy Second report on 'Review of Rape Laws' as well as the
recommendations of the National Commission for Women for providing stringent punishment
for the offence of rape, a High Power Committee (HPC) was constituted consisting of the
representatives of the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Ministry of Law and Justice,
National Commission for Women, Law Commission of India and the Ministry of Home Affairs
to examine the matter considering the suggestions of various quarters on the subject. The High
Power Committee submitted its report along with the draft Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill,
2011 and recommended to the Government for its enactment. 1.1.2 The Bill seeks to achieve the
following objectives :- (a) Substitute Sections 375, 376, 376A and 376B by replacing the existing
Sections 375, 376, 376A, 376B, 376C and 376D of the Indian Penal Code, and replacing the
word 'rape' wherever it occurs by the words 'sexual assault', to make the offence of sexual assault
gender neutral and also widening the scope of the offence of sexual assault; (b) Insert new
Sections 326A and 326B in the Indian Penal Code to make acid attack a specific offence; (c)
Enhance the punishment under Sections 354 and 509 of the Indian Penal Code, making the
offence more stringent; (d) Amend Sections 154, 160 and 161 of the Code of Criminal
Procedure, 1973 for providing male persons under the age of eighteen years or above the age of
sixty-five years and women more protection; 10 (e) Amend the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 by
way of inserting a new Section 53A wherein evidence of the character of the victim or of his or
her previous sexual experience shall not be relevant or questioned.
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CONCLUSION
The societies in the beginning were rudimentary and so were the laws of the societies. Laws have
grown with the growth of society. This establishes a relationship between law and society, where
law is an instrument of social change, and as Pound would put it law must be stable, but it must
not stand still. To comprehend, understand, and appreciate the present legal system adequately, it
is necessary to acquire a back-ground knowledge of the course of growth and development of the
legal history. A peculiar feature of the legal development in India was that for long the
government endeavored to create a system of courts without ever attempting to develop a body
of law. Conscious efforts to remove these defects were made by developing a coherent body of
law. But the coherent system of law was developed only after the process of codification. Law
then became more territorial and resulted in the abridgment of the differences of law between the
resulted in the application of uniform law throughout the country. The independence of the
judiciary is fairly well assured by the constitution itself and adequate precautions have been
taken to help the judiciary to discharge their functions effectively. Law in the country is now
mostly codified and is uniform throughout the country and the objective is now to update, reform
and bring the law in conformity with the new social conditions prevailing in the country .In
conclusion, we may say that the Indian legal system provides all the machinery for the expansion
and preservation of the law
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