Mihika Poddar

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Mihika is a DPhil candidate in law at the University of Oxford, working on legal recognition of personal identities, including race, sex/gender and caste. Mihika competed the MPhil in Law in 2021, and obtained the Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) with Distinction on a Rhodes Scholarship. Mihika is also a qualified Indian lawyer. Her interests include human rights, equality, climate change and constitutional law.

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Love, Lies, and the Law: The Quandary of Criminalising False Promise to Marry in India

Love, Lies, and the Law: The Quandary of Criminalising False Promise to Marry in India

Indian law is notorious for censuring sexuality outside of marriage, especially for women. A pertinent example is the criminalisation of a ‘false promise to marry’ (FPM) as rape, which recent law reforms will now treat as a separate ...