Introduction Legal Jurisprudence accords high stature to bodily integrity. This vehicle for awakening has DNA engulfed with precious information of our lineage making privacy, bodily integrity, dignity and property command veneration in the eyes of law. But floating bodies in UP and Bihar reveal that the treatment meted out to the dead is amateurish. AccordingContinueContinue reading “Why Bodies Matter: An Analysis from Legal Perspective”
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Ensuring Right to Decent Burial in Post Covid-19 India
Asthi Visarjan is a very significant ritual in the Hindu religion which basically means immersion of the left ashes collected from Antim Sanskar (last rites)of a dead person. But in the time of Covid-19 the basic meaning of “Asthi Visarjan” i.e., immersion of ashes have been misunderstood as ‘Bodies’ now. And we saw that ‘Bodies’ContinueContinue reading “Ensuring Right to Decent Burial in Post Covid-19 India”
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