Legal Aspects of Law-breaking against Women vis-à-vis Women’s Right

摘要

Crimes  are  public  wrongs  affecting  the  entire  community. Crimes  affect  the lives  of  millions  of  women  worldwide.  Violence against  women  takes  variety  of factors.Despite various laws and amendments are made by the Indian constitution from time to time, women’s right has not been fulfilled. At  the  international  level,  various conferences,  conventions  and  declarations  are  madeto  improve  the  status  of  women which reaffirmed that the women rights. The empirical survey of crimes against women brought  into  focus  the  pathetic  condition  of  law  enforcement  agencies  and  the ineffectiveness  of  the  protective  laws  to  curb  the  growing  incidents  of  crime  against women.  Increasing  instances  of  crime  against  women  has  become  matter  of  great concern  in  the  society.  Now  some  developments  have  amendments  in  law  and  new offences are made for the crime against women.