In a horrific incident in Jaipur, a 32-year-old woman jumped off naked from a story building in Mohana area on Saturday with an attempt to escape a gangrape. Luckily the woman survived the accident and is receiving treatment at a Jaipuria Hospital in Jaipur. The Jaipur police have registered a[Read More…]
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Gwalior shelter home case: Contraceptive injected to inmates to stop mensuration
Yet another inhuman behaviour with the inmates of shelter home has come to light on Sunday. Caretakers of Snehalaya shelter home in Gwalior has been arrested after shocking revelations by a team of women and child development divulged. The team informed that the shelter home inmates were given contraceptive injections[Read More…]
Unnao Rape Case: Police exhumes CBI witness’ body for autopsy
Unnao district administration exhumed the remains of 32-year-old Yunus Khan, the key CBI witness in the rape case involving Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar on Saturday. Yunus was a witness for CBI in the murder case of the father of a teenage girl raped in the district last[Read More…]
Making a safer workplace for women in private sector, says Maneka Gandhi
In order to ensure safe workplaces for Women in the private sector, the Ministry of Women and Child had requested Hon’ble Minister for Corporate Affairs to mandate the disclosure regarding implementation of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act in the Directors Report of every[Read More…]
Intimate Partner Violence in India: Murders and Marital Rape
When a wealthy and powerful nobleman asks the hand of his neighbour’s youngest daughter, it terrifies her family. While he boasts of a luxurious palace and riches, there is a hitch – all his previous wives have mysteriously disappeared. Yet the girl gets married to him against her will. One[Read More…]
Chandigarh: Minor allegedly raped on her way back from I-Day celebration
A case of rape was registered by the Chandigarh police on Tuesday from a girl who alleged that she was sexually assaulted by a man while returning home from the Independence Day program at her school. The incident happened at the children’s traffic park, located in the heart of the[Read More…]
10-year-old rape survivor denied abortion
In a shocking incident, an Indian court denied abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim who was impregnated, ruling she is too young and her pregnancy too advanced to have an abortion. The survivor, six months pregnant after her maternal uncle allegedly raped her several times, CBS News reported. The district[Read More…]
Days after horrific HKV incident goes viral, Police to ban ladies’ night
Two days after a woman shared a horrific incident she witnessed at Hauz Khas Village (HKV) in Delhi on Twitter, Delhi Police is considering to ban ladies’ nights at clubs at HKV. According to police such parties ‘disturb law and order situation’. The move may cause ending up night-party culture[Read More…]
How safe women are in Delhi? This woman’s bravery averted a crime, but still gives you goosebumps!
On Thursday morning, a woman on Twitter who goes by the handle @kibbanoir shared a horrific incident she witnessed the preceding night at Hauz Khas Village (HKV) in Delhi and it is enough to give you goosebumps. The woman narrates the ordeal wherein a few men were trying to abduct[Read More…]
Delhi: HC allows a 40-year-old rape convict to walk free
The Delhi High Court set a 40-year-old rape convict free, reducing his sentence to seven years which he had already served behind the bars. The decision was initiated after considering that the conduct of the convict, who has a wife and two children to look after, has been satisfactory in[Read More…]
6 awful things that Indian lawmakers have said about rape in India
Once again highlighting the hostile culture for women in India, from lawmakers to policemen, patriarchy is ingrained and there are no two ways about this. If you go by statistics, it shows that rape occurs every 22 minutes in India. Rape is the fourth most common crime against women in[Read More…]
Sheena Bora murder case: CBI may challenge Bombay HC’s order
On Monday, the CBI said that it was in thinking of moving the Supreme Court in the Sheena Bora murder case. This move would be challenging the Bombay High Court order which said that the policeman, who questioned accused-turned-approver Shyamvar Rai, was not an independent witness. “We are yet to[Read More…]
Punjab sets precedent, announces monthly aid for acid-attack survivors
Acid attack on women in India is not new. Women have been victim of this crime for years. Acid-attack is one of the ruthless types of crime on human beings which leads to complete debilitation, loss of income and opportunity, and even ostracism. Acid attack has seen a steep rise[Read More…]
Old age can’t be a ground for token sentence in sexual offence says Delhi Court
A Delhi Court said that token sentences, in the case of sexual abuse is not fit as a punishment, even if the accused is an aged person. While dealing with a case of a six-year-old girl, who was molested by her 61-year-old neighbour, the court said that old age is[Read More…]
Delhi: Teens allege sexual abuse in government shelter home
In a recent expose, a state-run west Delhi shelter home has been accused of molestation. More than 10 women have complained to have been molested, forcibly injected unexplained drugs, and even physically abused when they tried to resist the torture. This government aided home, which has now turned into horror,[Read More…]
Inquiry ordered against Haryana police for allegedly asking rape survivor to strip
The Haryana government has ordered an inquiry into the alleged case of molestation of a 14-year-old rape survivor. Earlier, the Punjab and Haryana HC issued a notice to the Haryana DGP on the survivor’s petition. She has alleged that she was forced to strip by male police officers and was[Read More…]
Woman accused of ‘honey-trapping’ KC Patel detained for questioning
On charges of ‘honey trapping’ BJP lawmaker KC Patel, the Delhi Police took a woman into custody for questioning, on Tuesday. The woman, who accused Patel of rape, was arrested from her residence in Indirapuram. “We have taken the woman, who honey-trapped the BJP MP, into custody for questioning,” a[Read More…]
Minor raped in Shahjahanpur
JNU student allegedly gang raped by two Afghan nationals
A 21-year-old JNU BA second year student was allegedly raped by two Afghan nationals in south Delhi’s Green Park area, on Friday as per Police reports. The victim had gone to a pub in Hauz Khas village last week where she met one Twaab Ahmad alias Saleem, 27, an Afghan[Read More…]
Shameful! Japanese woman allegedly raped in Kerala, accused arrested
In a shocking incident, a 35-year-old Japanese woman was allegedly raped by a man from neighbouring Karnataka at nearby Kovalam, police said on Saturday. The accused, identified as Teja, 25, was arrested on Saturday based on the woman’s statement. His family runs a handicrafts shop at Kovalam, police said. A[Read More…]
UP horror: Minor girl gang-raped in Lucknow, parents held hostage
In a horrific act, a 12-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped in Lucknow by five men who took turns between assaulting her and holding her parents hostage to prevent them from intervening. The girl has said she was assaulted early on Tuesday in the capital of Uttar Pradesh. Medical tests are[Read More…]