Human Rights and Law

Being the only Law student at the internship, the write-up for the two heavy sessions on Law and Human Rights has been 're'delegated to me !
What is Equality? What is violence ?
How does the Law treat the perpetrators and victims of Domestic Violence ? What are the differences between Criminal and Civil Law? Where would you file a complaint and can a layman ever actually seek legal redressal with the confidence that the Law presupposes?

These were just some of the very potent questions that Ms. Rama Sarode tried to answer in two back-to-back sessions . Whereas the first day was spent disucussing the very basics like Civil and criminal law - Sources of law and more importantly, the ABC of penal Law viz. The Indian Penal Code,1860, The Criminal Procedure Code,1973 and the Indian Evidence Act, 1872. - the second day had the shraing of the advocate's personal experiences with handling the law (eg. cases on Domestic Violence and the problem of implementing the new Domestic Violence Act,2005 and the famous Armugam case where an alleged rapist was wrongly convicted for 12 years!)

If there was one point that was made clear during the sessions was that- even the basics of law requires much to be simplified!
Being a law student , I could vouch for the fact that our Guest had made all of it seemingly easy and interesting and yet many of the interns felt that most of it 'flew over their heads'!
However , it was not all in vain as our minds felt 'enlightened' on our basic "Rights"!

By - Chiteisri Devi