iarjimphIARJIMPHIARJIMPH2709-331Xhttps://doi.org/10.47310/iarjimph.2020.v01i01.009Medico-Legal Aspects of COVID -19SrishtiRaiManojKumarPathakThe world now is struggling to control and overcome a pandemic which has affected the whole world claiming 1524348 lives till now. The pandemic not only did unilateral damage to the health of people but the parallel problems that followed remoulded their surroundings and demanded immediate permute from them. Doctors live in a constant stress of contracting the disease themselves and transmitting them to other members of their family. According to the UN’s Framework for the Immediate Socio-Economic Response to the COVID 19 Crisis this pandemic is not only a health crisis but its core effect can be seen in economies and societies. When people think that their survival is being threatened, they need to act on things that are in control of them and hence we get extreme reactions. The work from home culture though not new to society has never been practiced at such massive scale. Though it has got some advantages but when we see the bigger picture it is destroying personal lives of people. The UN has described the worldwide increase in domestic abuse as a "shadow pandemic" alongside Covid-19. The nexus of the social stratification and divergent communities was affected in ways that it was not easy to anticipate. Along with other collateral issues it brought in forefront the issue of extreme depression leading to suicides in India.