For law students thinking litigation is slow or not working: Starting years are honestly frustrating. You sit in court the whole day and just watch. You prepare files but don’t get to argue. Half your time goes in small work that doesn’t even feel like “real law”. And you keep thinking ; is this even worth it? But slowly, things start changing. You begin to understand what is happening in court without anyone explaining. You start spotting mistakes before others do. You learn how judges actually think. It doesn’t happen in one big moment. It happens quietly, day by day. Those initial years don’t look important at that time, but later you realise; that’s where everything came from. Just stay there. It pays off.
You might have heard about the process of mediation and reconciliation process at Mahila Thana, if not then let me tell you that this process begins when a aggrieved women (aggrieved of domestic violence, dowry harassment, cruelty and abuse- verbal, economic, social, physical etc.) approaches the Mahila Police Station of her jurisdiction area and files a complaint against her husband and in-laws. After such complaint, as per the process, the officials calls and informs the husband and in-laws of the contents of the complaint and allegations alleged therein and ask them to visit the P.S on specific date and thereafter start to reconcile the dispute in hand and the same goes over for almost 5-6 dates. However, there is no specific period or number of dates mentioned for this reconciliation stage but occasionally 5-6 is an average decent number in the state like Delhi. In 99.9 % of cases, the disputes remains unresolved and the matter be then forwarded to registrati...