EBC's Law Relating to Women and Children by Mamta Rao – Fifth Edition, Updated as per the New Criminal Laws and the New Labour Codes

Eastern Book Company publishes the Fifth Edition of Mamta Rao's Law Relating to Women and Children, with a Foreword by Hon'ble Justice A. K. Srivastava, Judge, High Court of Madhya Pradesh. A 768-page paperback, and one of the standard Indian texts on the subject.

What makes this edition necessary rather than merely new is the scale of statutory change behind it. The whole of the criminal law has been replaced by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023, and the labour statutes by the new Labour Codes. Both bodies of law run straight through this subject — every offence against a woman or child, and every protection for a woman at work, now sits in a different enactment from the one the previous edition cited. This edition is rewritten to the new provisions throughout, with the recent decisions of the Supreme Court and the High Courts.

Contents

1. Introduction — the place of women and children in the legal order, and the premises on which protective legislation rests.
2. International Commitments — CEDAW, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the other instruments India has ratified, and their effect in domestic law.
3. Constitutional Protection and the National Commission for Women — Articles 14, 15(3), 21, 23, 39 and 42, the reservation provisions, and the statutory commissions.
4. Law Relating to Crimes Against Women — rape and sexual offences, dowry death and cruelty, female foeticide, trafficking, sexual harassment at the workplace and domestic violence, now under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Sakshya Adhiniyam.
5. Personal Laws Relating to Women — marriage, divorce, maintenance, guardianship, adoption and succession across the personal law systems.
6. Women and Industrial Law — equal remuneration, maternity benefit, working conditions and the protections now carried into the new Labour Codes.
7. Laws Relating to Protection of Children — child labour, child abuse, the POCSO Act, child marriage and the right to education.
8. Juvenile Justice — the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, children in conflict with law and children in need of care and protection.

With a Table of Cases and a detailed Subject Index.

Why this book

• Rewritten for the BNS, BNSS and BSA and for the new Labour Codes — not a reprint with a supplement.
• Recent Supreme Court and High Court judgments worked into the text.
• Both subjects in one volume — women and children are taught and litigated together, and the overlap between them is where most of the difficulty lies.
• A teaching text that practitioners also use — structured for the LL.B. and LL.M. syllabus, but with the case law a court would want.
• 768 pages, paperback, from Eastern Book Company.

Who should buy this book

• LL.B. and LL.M. students taking Women and the Law, Child Rights or Gender Justice as a paper.
• Judges and judicial officers in family courts, POCSO courts and the criminal courts.
• Advocates practising in matrimonial, domestic violence, POCSO and juvenile justice matters.
• NGOs, child welfare committees, protection officers and women's rights activists.
• HR and compliance teams handling sexual harassment at the workplace and maternity benefit obligations.
• Judicial service aspirants and teachers of the subject.