The Supreme Court’s recent ruling upholding criminal liability for cruelty to live-in relationships ‘in the nature of marriage’ must raise questions on why marriage is still the qualification for critical rights against intimate partner violence.
The April edition of ‘Staying Alive’ foregrounds the experiences of Alternative Law Forum, a lawyers’ collective based in Bengaluru, working with the PWDVA across police stations, protection officers and courts — and the institutional failures that keep undermining it.
