Gandhi was the only child of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of independent India.

Plea bargaining was introduced in India by Criminal Law ( Amendment ) Act, 2005, which amended the Code of Criminal Procedure and introduced a new chapter XXI ( A ) in the code, enforceable from January 11, 2006, which affects cases in which the maximum punishment is imprisonment for 7 years ; however, offenses affecting the socio-economic condition of the country and offenses committed against a woman or a child below 14 are excluded.

Few could stand by and watch a child drown ; many can ignore the avoidable deaths of children in Africa or India.

In the Kumaon region of northern India, it is called Maddua and is traditionally fed to women after child birth.

Thackeray, an only child, was born in Calcutta, India, where his father, Richmond Thackeray ( 1 September 1781 – 13 September 1815 ), was secretary to the board of revenue in the British East India Company.

As a child he wandered through a substantial part of the Middle East and India as his grandfather expanded his conquests in those areas.

The tale of the child Krishna stealing butter remains a popular children's story in India today.

In India, there is no outright ban on child labor, and the practice is generally permitted in most industries except those deemed " hazardous ".

Under the auspices of the Unicef financed Udisha initiative the Government of India is specifying the outline of a means of change and improvement in child care.

A child suffering extreme starvation in India, 1972

*: A child born in India must have at least one parent who is an Indian citizen to be conferred citizenship.

An article published in The Lancet analyzed Indian census data and concluded that selective abortion of female fetuses has increased in India over the past few decades due to increased prenatal sex discernment and has contributed to a widening imbalance in the child sex ratio, though the basis of the finding has been questioned.

* 1996 Human Rights Watch report on bonded child labor in India

He is a feral child from India who originally appeared in Rudyard Kipling's short story " In the Rukh " ( collected in Many Inventions, 1893 ) and then went on to become the most prominent and memorable character in his fantasies The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book ( 1894 – 1895 ), which also featured stories about other characters.

Thailand, Cambodia, India, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico have been identified as countries where child sexual exploitation is prevalent.

In some Asian countries, such as India, Japan, Korea and Vietnam, when a child loses a tooth, it is customary for him or her to throw it onto the roof if it came from the lower jaw, or into the space beneath the floor if it came from the upper jaw.

Christie was born on 14 April 1941 in Singlijan Tea Estate, Chabua, Assam, British India, the elder child of Rosemary ( née Ramsden ), a painter, and Francis " Frank " St. John Christie.

Thailand, Cambodia, India, Brazil and Mexico have been identified as leading hotspots of child sexual exploitation.

In January 2010, the supreme court of India stated that India is " becoming a hub " for largescale child prostitution rackets, and suggested the setting up of a special investigating agency to tackle the growing problem.

He was the fourth surviving and final child of Louisa Florence Dixie and Lawrence Samuel Durrell, both of whom were born in India of English and Irish descent.

Thailand, Cambodia, India, Brazil and Mexico have been identified as leading hotspots of child sexual exploitation.

Zia was born in Jalandhar, Punjab state of the British Indian Empire, on 12 August 1924 to a middle-class family, as the second child of Muhammad Akbar, who worked as a staff clerk in the Army GHQ of India Command of British Armed Forces in Delhi and Simla, prior to the partition of Pakistan from British colonial rule in 1947.

His daughter Grace is married to a British officer stationed in India, and his youngest child, Judith, who is also his favourite — albeit while also being the one he understands least — appears as a character in Curtain.

Hamm's world is death and Clov may or may not get out of it to join the living child outside.

If he is the child of nothingness, if he is the predestined victim of an age of atomic wars, then he will consult only his own organic needs and go beyond good and evil.

And yet -- a year to a child is an eternity, and in the memory that phase of one's being -- a certain mental landscape -- will seem to have endured without beginning and without end.

Professionally a lawyer, that is to say associated with dignity, reserve, discipline, with much that is essentially middle-class, he is compelled by an impossible love to exhibit himself dressed up, disguised -- that is, paradoxically, revealed -- as a child, and, worse, as a whore masquerading as a child.

A dominant motive is the poet's longing for his homeland and its boyhood associations: `` Not men-folk, but the fields where I would stray, The stones where as a child I used to play ''.

we accord it its place there, and in Lawrence's treatment we are given the innocent fantasy of a child, in fact, the form in which oedipal love is expressed in childhood.

And when the child dies in Lawrence's story in a delirium that is somehow brought on by his mania to win and to make his mother rich, the manifest absurdity of such a disease and such a death does not enter into our thoughts at all.

Grigorss is the child of an incestuous union between a royal brother and sister, the twins Sibylla and Wiligis.

An ivory tablet in the infant's cask recounts the story of his sinful origins and is preserved for the child by the monks of a monastery in the fishing village.

Sibylla is pregnant with their second child when she finds the ivory tablet concealed by her husband, and the identities of mother and son are revealed.

He is a parent with a child to nurture, here and now, and he is an educator who worries about the children half way round the world.

So far as I am concerned, the child is unmistakably father to the man, despite the obvious fact that child and father differ greatly -- sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse.

( The `` autistic '' child is one who seems to lack a well-defined sense of self.

As the mother of an autistic child who is lacking in interest and enthusiasm about almost anything, I have to manipulate my son's fingers for him when he first plays with a new toy.

The answer is different for each autistic child, but for most there is an answer.

When a fisherman brought her up in his arms, still, small, as if she were a child asleep, I began to shudder with a terrible excitement, almost triumphant, that I still cannot account for.

The leprous child Baldwin IV succeeded his father and brought his mother Agnes of Courtenay ( now married to her fourth husband ) back to court.

Leutze was born in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Württemberg ( Germany ), and was brought to America as a child.

In 1931, after Woman in the Moon, Lang directed what many film scholars consider to be his masterpiece: M, a disturbing story of a child murderer ( Peter Lorre in his first starring role ) who is hunted down and brought to rough justice by Berlin's criminal underworld.

In Europe and North America, labour unions brought about laws granting workers the right to strike, establishing minimum work conditions and forbidding or regulating child labor.

In a note prefixed to the Collected Edition of his wife's poems, Robert Browning tells us that " On the early death of his father, he ( Edward Moulton ) was brought from Jamaica to England when a very young child, as ward to the late Chief Baron Lord Abinger, then Mr. Scarlett, whom he frequently accompanied in his post-chaise when on pursuit.

The recent widow of a prominent Chicago banker, Anna Dollie Ledgerwood Matters, had brought a baby girl home from a visit to Canada and claimed that the child was her late husband's posthumous heir.

Ambrosius was rumoured to be such a child, but when brought before the king, he revealed the real reason for the tower's collapse: below the foundation was a lake containing two dragons who destroyed the tower by fighting.

The child was abandoned by his mother and then it was brought up by the powers of nature.

She also admits that it brought back painful memories of those years when she saw her son Wesley going through the same ridicule as a child.

If the child survived it was brought before the Gerousia by the child's father.

As a child, he was brought up by his parents in the Russian Orthodox Church.

In the Reeve's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer ( circa 1386 ) it appears as " cokenay ", and the meaning is " a child tenderly brought up, an effeminate fellow, a milksop ".

Caroline's servants could or would not confirm that these gentlemen were her lovers, nor that she had been pregnant, and said that the child had been brought to Caroline's house by his true mother, Sophia Austin.

Three Moravian missionaries under Matthias Stach arrived in 1733 and began the first of a series of mission stations at Neu-Herrnhut ( which later developed into the modern capital Nuuk ), but a returning Inuit child brought smallpox from Denmark and a large proportion of the native population died over the next few years.

A sick child brought into the Temple of Asclepeion | Asclepieion, by John William Waterhouse | Waterhouse ( 1877 )

Tamora asks for her child to be brought to her, but she stabs it immediately upon receiving it.

Returning after nine days, Agelaus was astonished to find the child still alive, and brought him home in a backpack ( πήρα, hence Paris's name, which means " backpack ") to rear as his own.

Common exceptions to discharge include child support, income taxes less than 3 years old and property taxes, student loans ( unless the debtor prevails in a difficult-to-win adversary proceeding brought to determine the dischargeability of the student loan ), and fines and restitution imposed by a court for any crimes committed by the debtor.

The boy was brought up to believe that he was Adolphe Bizet's child ; only on her deathbed in 1913 did Reiter reveal her son's true paternity.

When a priest must take Holy Communion to the sick or homebound, if he has not prepared himself to receive the Holy Mysteries, he may ablute the chalice by pouring water into it and asking the one to whom he brought the Sacrament ( or a Baptized child who because of their youth is not obliged to prepare for Communion ) to consume the ablution.

According to Josephus it was the conquering of Saba that brought great fame to a young Egyptian Prince, simultaneously exposing his personal background as a slave child named Moses.

He adopted his cousin Hadassah ( Esther ), an orphan child, whom he brought up as his own daughter.

It was then decided to wait until the Queen Clemence, who was pregnant, brought her child into the world.