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Global Hunger Index 2020 - social issue Why india performed poorer then countries like Pakistan?   Key highlights: 1.        India Scores 27.2 (Serious zone) a.        0=no hunger b.       <9 = low severity c.        10 to 19.9 = moderate d.       20 to 34.9=34.9 serious e.       >35= Alarming 2.        Second last in south asia (even below pakistan) 3.        China + Brajil scored < 5 (low severity nation) 4.        South Africa =13.5 (moderate nation) 5.        India's poor rank bcoz of Wasting + Stunting ( highest in world) a.        Note:                ...

In  Maru Ram  v.  Union of India    the constitutional validity of Section 433-A of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 was upheld. The petitioners attacked the provision alleging infraction of Articles 14, 20(1), 72 and 161 of the Constitution of India. It was inducted into the Code by an amendment in 1978. It lays down as follows: "433-A.  Restriction on powers of remission or commutation in certain cases .—Notwithstanding anything contained in Section 432, where a sentence of imprisonment for life is imposed on conviction of a person for an offence for which death is one of the punishments provided by law, or where a sentence of death imposed on a person has been commuted under Section 433 into one of imprisonment for life, such person shall not be released from prison unless he had served at least fourteen years of imprisonment." A reading of the provision shows that under two circumstances a convict has to actually undergo incarceration for fourtee...