Discuss (c) Dhikta

The criminal law's reproductive edges — each offence distorts fertility's safe, chosen path:8.1.1 InfanticideThe killing of an infant — prosecuted as homicide under the Muluki Criminal Code 2074 (the Code's graded homicide framework), with the infanticide-pattern causes (unwanted pregnancy, poverty, son-preference's girl-targeted variant) as the prevention agenda's data. Impact on fertility statistics: infant deaths misclassified or hidden; the sex-ratio's silent skew.8.1.2 RapeThe Code 2074's rape provisions (with the sentencing framework the recent amendment debates have contested). Reproductive-health impact: unwanted pregnancy from rape; the survivor's trauma; the law's answers — the abortion framework's extended windows for rape-pregnancy (below) and the victim-compensation machinery (Victimology, LAW5807).8.1.3 BigamyMarriage while an earlier marriage subsists — criminalized (the Code's bigamy offence) as monogamy's enforcement arm. Fertility's link: plural marriages as pronatalist structures; the offence protects the first family (and the property-equity framework around it).8.1.4 IncestSexual relations within prohibited degrees — the Code's incest offence; reproductive-health rationale: genetic risk and the family's integrity; the child-protection overlay where minors are involved.8.1.5 AdulteryThe classical offence's Nepali trajectory: from the old Code's criminalization (with its gender- asymmetric history) to the constitutional-equality era's re-examination — the decriminalization direction in the recent case law and reform debates (the movement treating adultery as a civil/ ground-for-divorce matter rather than a crime). Exam stance: describe both the historical offence and the contemporary rights critique…