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Living Legally: Short Stories Based Upon the Indian Court System
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ISBN13: 9798363662881
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 14 2022
Pages: 58
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.12 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 14 2022
Pages: 58
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.12 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Indian court system touches the lives of crores of people, yet for most, it remains unfamiliar and intimidating territory. What does it actually feel like to fight a case for ten years over a family property? To sit in a courtroom on the first hearing, full of expectations, only to be told the judge is on leave? To be an undertrial locked in a crowded jail while your tea shop is demolished and your son drops out of school? Living Legally answers these questions through ten human stories. Each one follows a different person navigating a different corner of India's legal system: a stressed district judge, a vengeful wife who misuses the law, a greedy senior advocate, a retired landlord fighting a false case, and a Bangalore pensioner who loses his savings to a sophisticated cyber fraud. One story retells the Mahabharata as a corporate property dispute that winds its way from a district court all the way to the Supreme Court of India. None of these stories are real, but all of them are true to life. Each ends with a plain-language Lessons section pointing readers to the legal options available in similar situations. The book has been updated to reflect India's new criminal laws, the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, which came into force in July 2024. An ideal read for students of law, litigants, and anyone curious about the world behind India's courtroom doors.
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