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Important Notes
Domestic Violence
Significance of Women Protection Law, 2006
National Commission for Women
Sedition Act 1870
Civil law | Criminal law |
(1) It deal with the rights and obligations of people and what is needed to protect them | It deal with offences and their punishment. |
(2) Theft, marriage and divorce, eviction, etc fall under the civil cases. | Robbery, murder and kidnapping are examples of criminal offences. |
Racial segregation
In America, there was a segregation law according to which all public spaces, including the streets, were divided between the whites and the African- Americans, In a famous incident, an African- American woman Rosa Parks had refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man on 1st December 1955. She was protesting the law on segregation.
Her refusal was an input event that ignited the fire of protest against unjust lawS in USA. It had caused the start of the Civil Rights Movement, which led to the Civil Rights Act in 1964, that prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, religion or national origin in the U.S.A.
The Rowlatt Act not liked by Indian nationalists
During the British rule, Rowlatt Act was passed after the end of the First World War. It was not liked by the Indian nationalists. It was considered a powerful example of British arbitrariness because it allowed the British government to imprison people without due trial.
Indian nationalists, including Mahatma Gandhi, were vehement in their opposition to the Rowlatt bills. Despite the large number of protests, the Rowlatt Act came into effect on March 10, 1919. In Punjab, protests against this Act continued quite actively. On April 10, 1919 two leaders of the movement, Dr. Satya Pal and Dr. Saifuddin Kichlew were arrested.
To protest these arrests, a public meeting was held on 13th April at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar. General Dyer entered the park with his troops. They closed the only exit gate and without giving any warning, General Dyer ordered the troops to fire on empty-handed people. Several hundreds of people died in this gunfire and thousands were wounded including women and children. The scene of Jallianwala Bagh massacre was very terrible.
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