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Jauhar & the Politics of Distraction: How the Right and so-called liberals often complement each other
The selectiveness of medieval Muslim or medieval Rajput history in contestation is not just deliberate effort to alienate these two communities but is also a Brahmanical viewpoint that refuses to subject Peshwa or Maratha history to a similar brand of selectivity
Workers Front files petition against UP gov’t shutting down women’s helpline
The helpline 181 was launched in 2016 as a response to the Delhi gang rape incident of 2012
Madhya Pradesh: On being refused water, four gang-rape, brutalise woman with iron rod
She ran a small shop from her shanty built on a hillock in a desolate area in Sidhi district
Remove Chandramukhi Devi from NCW: Anganwadi Workers group
Group demands fast track trial of the Budaun rape and murder case, adequate compensation and a job for the victim’s family
Why did Budaun police take so long to catch rape-accused Temple priest?
Alert locals caught the accused who was hiding in the same village, and handed him over to the police
NCW member blames Badaun gangrape victim!
National Commission for Women member Chandramukhi Devi said If victim had not gone out unaccompanied in the evening, ganrape, murder would not have happened; the accused temple priest is still absconding
National women organisations demand justice for anganwadi gang-rape victim
Organisations claim that police ignored the pleas of the victim’s family to lodge the FIR
Ex IAS officer claims UP govt detained him for trying to meet Badaun gangrape victim’s family
Meanwhile, there continues to be a lack of political outrage over the brutal gang-rape and murder at a temple in Uttar Pradesh
Rape is destruction of personality of victim: J&K HC
The court, while denying bail to rape accused, held that even if he had friendly relations with the survivor, it does not give him license to have sexual relations without her consent
Woman allegedly gang raped, brutalised inside UP temple
She succumbed to her injuries; police have booked a priest and two disciples, SHO has been suspended
Mothers can’t be denied child’s custody upon entering new relationship without divorce: Allahabad HC
However, the court allowed visitation rights to the father as a father’s company is also essential for the child’s welfare
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