The journal welcomes and encourages original research based papers, articles, legal expressions, legal perceptions, views and comments on various legal issues, case law and book reviews. The journal covers almost all the subjects relating to the legal study. The journal invites original and unpublished contributions. The editor reserves the right to edit and publish all contributions. Submission of paper indicates that it has been neither copyrighted, published nor submitted or accepted for publication elsewhere.
Integrated School of Law of INMANTEC Institutions is publishing a biannual Journal “Vidhigya: The Journal of Legal Awareness” since 2005 with the mission to enlighten society through the free expression of thought and creativity of authors resulting in innovative research in legal education. It is a proud moment for the Integrated School of Law of INMANTEC Institutions, that our Journals have successfully completed more than a decade under the banner of INMANTEC Publishing established in the year 2006 as a separate publication unit. It is a peer-reviewed refereed Journal and listed in international Index & Indianjournals.com.
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Aims & Scope
The journal welcomes and encourages original research based papers, articles, legal expressions, legal perceptions, views and comments on various legal issues, case law and book reviews. The journal covers almost all the subjects relating to the legal study.
The journal invites original and unpublished contributions. The editor reserves the right to edit and publish all contributions. Submission of paper indicates that it has been neither copyrighted, published nor submitted or accepted for publication elsewhere.
Patron
Dr Latika Gupta
Chief Editor
Dr K K Mittal
Director Academic,
Integrated School of Law,
Ghaziabad, UP, India
Associate Editors
Dr Pushp Raj
Principal,
Integrated School of Law,
Ghaziabad, UP, India
Mr Dinesh Kumar
Assistant Professor,
Integrated School of Law,
Ghaziabad, UP, India
Ms. Honey Singh
Assistant Professor,
Integrated School of Law,
Ghaziabad, UP, India
Managing Editor
Dr Rama Krushna Charan Patro
Librarian,
INMANTEC Institutions,
Ghaziabad, UP, India
Assistant Managing Editor
Mr Kaluram Parihar
Assistant Librarian,
INMANTEC Institutions,
Ghaziabad, UP, India
Production Manager
Mr Jitender Sharma
Graphic Designer,
INMANTEC Institutions,
Ghaziabad, UP, India
Editorial Advisory Board
| Dr Abhishek Kumar Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Allahabad, Up, India Email: abhishek4kumar@gmail.com | Prof Balraj Chauhan Vice Chancellor, Dharmashastra National Law University, Jabalpur, India Email: vc@mpdnlu.ac.in |
| Dr Anurag Deep Professor, The Indian Law Institute, Delhi, India Email: anuragdeeplaw1@gmail.com | Prof B C Nirmal EX-Vice Chancellor, NUSRL, Ranchi, India Email: vc@nusrlranchi.ac.in |
| Anup Kumar Varshney Chief Editor, Vidhi Sahitya Prakashan Legislative Department, Ministry of Law & Justice, Government of India, New Delhi, India Email: anupvarshney1962@yahoo.com | Prof K P S Mahalwar Chair Professor, National Law University, Delhi, India Email: kps.mahalwar@nludelhi.ac.in |
| Dr Mohammad Ashraf Professor, Faculty of Law, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, UP, India Email: profashraf828@gmail.com | Dr S C Srivastava Secretary General, NLLA, Karkardooma, Delhi, India Email: info.nllaindia@gmail.com |
| Dr Ravinder Kumar Assistant Professor, University School of Law & Legal Studies, GGSIP University, New Delhi, India Email: ravinderkumar10@gmail.com | Prof Preety Jain Professor, Department of Law, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India Email: preetyjain11@yahoo.com |
| Prof (Dr) R K Chaubey Head, Department of Law, University of Allahabad, UP, India Email: drrkchaubey@redifmail.com | Justice Dr Vijay Laxmi Retd. High Court Judge Allahabad, UP, India Email: vijayshree1771@gmail.com |
| Prof R K Gupta (Ex-Head & Dean) Director (Law) Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India Email: drrkgupta49@yahoo.co.in |
Reviewers Board
| Prof Anjali Mittal HOD Faculty of Law, Meerut College, Meerut, UP, India Email: anjalimittallaws@gmail.com | Prof S C Gupta HOD and EX-Dean H. N. B. Garwal University, Pauri, Uttarakhand, India Email: scgupta.pauri@gmail.com |
| Mr Akash Anand Asst Prof Law Faculty, Delhi University, India Email: akashllm2011@gmail.com | Dr Sidharth Misra Associate Professor, University of Delhi, Delhi, India Email: siddhartha.jurist@gmail.com |
| Prof K P S Mahalwar Chair Professor, National Law University, Delhi, India Email: kps.mahalwar@nludelhi.ac.in | Prof (Dr) Anupam Jha Law Seclor II, Faculty of Law University of Delhi Email: ajha@law.du.in |
Plagiarism Policy for INMANTEC Publishing
Plagiarism is to claim authorship of a document, a part of document, or some small sections of a document, which are not authored by claimant. While it is a common practice among academicians to quote past works done in that area or quoting work by others to support their arguments or thoughts in the document. However, to do so without properly acknowledging the source or original author both in text and references in proper and clear order constitutes plagiarism.
As Per International Intellectual Laws, Plagiarism is a Serious Offence.
Common Forms of Plagiarism
a) To use a phrase or sentence of some other author in your work without prior approval or acknowledgement
b) Copying word-to-word from work of others
c) Paraphrasing the words very closely from someone else's work
d) Using material downloaded from the Internet as it is or without quoting and acknowledging the source
e) Using borrowed statistics, figures, photographs, diagrams, pictures etc. from some other work without prior permission or written acknowledgement of the source
f) Picking up portions of your own previous work published elsewhere
In simplest terms, it means, author of any publication has to distinct very clearly what is his/her contribution and what is borrowed from elsewhere with proper acknowledgement of the borrowed contents both in texts and references as per international accepted standards of referencing while submitting a manuscript for publication consideration. We accept Harvard Style referencing.
All manuscripts submitted to INMANTEC Publishing will be scanned through plagiarism detection software. We expect a manuscript to be totally free of plagiarism material. However, plagiarism not exceeding 15% will be accepted for consideration after going through the plagiarized contents and establishing its relevance to the essence of the submitted research work.
Plagiarism Acceptance/Rejection Criteria
| Extent of Plagiarism | Action |
| =15% | Research work is accepted for further action |
| =15% and = 40% | Research work is returned for amendments |
| >40% | Research work is rejected summarily |
Author(s) of any submitted work will have to submit a signed undertaking available at institute website and with the respective editor clearly mentioning about the originality of the work, declaring in clear terms that the submitted research work hasn't been copied from any other source and taking ownership of problem, if any, occurring in future due to their submitted research work.
Author(s) will be solely responsible for any complication arising out of any unethical practices adopted, if any and the INAMANTEC PUBLISHING or the institute will in no way be responsible for any unethical practice on the part of the author(s)
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Guidelines for Contributors
Submission of a manuscript for “Vidhigya- The Journal of Legal Awareness” Should be the original work of the author(s). Author(s) is/are required transferring the copyright of the manuscript to the publisher for publishing in the journal. The publisher holds copyright of the manuscript unless otherwise not communicated. It further implies that the manuscript submitted has neither published nor been kept under consideration for publication. Provide the list of reference at the end of the paper in sequence as per the guidelines and the examples suggested. The reference guidelines for the author(s) are provided below according to “The Harvard Reference System” (also known as the author-date system) of citing other works.
Books
Surname, initials. (year of publication), Title of book in italic, Edition, Publisher, Place of publication, pp. reference page.
Example: Patton, M.Q. (1990), Qualitative Evaluation and Research Methods, 2nd ed., Sage, Newbury Park, pp. 111-24.
A Chapter From An Edited Book
Surname, initials. (year of publication) “Title of chapter” in Editor surname, initials (Ed.), Title of the book in italic, Edition, Publisher, Place of publication, Chapter page numbers.
Example: Gupta, T.N. (2009), “Role of ITC to elevate teacher education”, in Agarwal, N. (Ed.), Paradigm Shift in Teacher Education, Vayu Education of India, New Delhi, pp. 29-32.
A Translated Work
Surname, initials. (year of publication), Title of Book, Edition, Translated by Translator name, initials., Publisher, Place of publication.
Example: Bourdieu, P. (1977), Outline of a Theory of Practice, translated by Nice, R., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Journal Articles
Surname, initials. (year of publication), “Article title”, Journal Title in italic, Volume number, Issue number (if it exists), Article page numbers.
Example: Eqbal, M. (2006), Exploring legal information through www: A study, Vidhigya: The Journal of Legal Awareness, Vol. 01 No. 2, pp. 45-54.
Conference Papers
Some papers may not be published in journals but may be delivered at a conference and then published as part of the proceedings of that conference, in which case, use one of the following styles as appropriate.
Example: Lodi, E., Veseley, M. and Vigen, J. (2000), “Link managers for grey literature”, New Frontiers in Grey Literature, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Grey Literature, Washington, DC, October 4-5, 1999, Grey Net, Amsterdam, pp. 116-34.
Government Or Commercial Reports
Organization name (year of publication), Title of report in italic, Publisher and place of publication. (may be same as author).
Example: European Commission (1998), Fostering Entrepreneurship in Europe: Prioritie for the Future, European Commission, Brussels.
Electronic Sources
This refers to a source which is only available electronically, and not to sources which you may have accessed electronically but which are also available in print form, such as an article from an Emerald journal accessed via the Web.
Name (year of publication) "Article title" available at: full url (accessed date).
For last two elements, please try to remember the following conventions:
Example: Better Business Bureau (2001), “Third-party assurance boosts online purchasing”, available at:
Example: Ballantyne, D. (2000), “Dialogue and knowledge generation: two sides of the same coin in relationship marketing”, paper presented at the 2nd WWW Conference on Relationship Marketing, November 1999 February 2000, Monash University and MCB University Press, available at:
Electronic Journal
Surname, initials. (year of publication), “Article title”, Journal Title Volume number Issue number, Article page numbers, Available at: url (accessed date)
Example: Swaminathan, V., Lepkoswka-White, E. and Rao, B.P. (1999), “Browsers or buyers in cyberspace? An investigation of electronic factors influencing electronic exchange”, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Vol. 5 No. 2, available at:
