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Champions of Change: Supreme Court’s Verdict on Strengthening Women’s Maintenance Rights

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Women in India, like in most developing countries across the world, have suffered long-standing oppression to the point where taglines such as “striving for gender equality”, “women empowerment” and “women rights” are so popular and basic for any write-up title. In search of a unique and catchy title, I opened ChatGPT to send a prompt – “write an empowering and catchy quote on women who have discriminatory personal laws in India” and received the following response:

“Women are not just subjects of personal laws; they are champions of change, fighting for justice and equality in every corner of India.”

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The Three New Criminal Laws: A Woman’s View

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The Indian criminal law system has been overhauled by the three criminal laws namely the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) act, Bhartiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) act and the Bhartiya Sakshiya act (BSA) which seek to supersede the Indian Penal Code, 1860, the CrPC, 1973 and the Evidence Act, 1872 respectively. Since then, the changes introduced by these laws and their implications on the society have been a matter of discussion in the legal and political world. In addition to carrying the colonial baggage, the old penal code is premised on archaic notions of womens’ role in the society, which hindered their social progress and further rendered gender equality a far-fetched goal.

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