Annual digest of human rights judgements 2005
- New Delhi Indian Social Institute 2006
- 173p.
This year's compilation of court judgments dealing with human rights issues, as in the past five annual volumes, has a surfeit of cases on police atrocities, dowry deaths, cruelty on backward classes, pollution and other issues which disturb civil society today. A comparative study of such cases in the past years shows that complaints of women and backward classes have increased. This is an indication of the rising awareness of their rights. The Constitution and several welfare legislation have conferred special rights on them in order to lift them from the disadvantageous position and bring them to the forefront of society.