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When Family Becomes Custody: Allahabad HC holds adult women’s faith, residence and liberty cannot be placed under parental control
Holding that an alleged unlawful conversion cannot become a licence for private confinement, the Court separates the legality of religious conversion from the legality of detention—and holds the father and Uttar Pradesh State jointly liable for ₹25 lakh in constitutional compensation
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Hathras victim knew rape accused: UP Police start blaming the victim!
Uttar Pradesh police ‘investigation’, finds Dalit teen raped and killed was in ‘constant touch’ with the main accused. Will that impact the investigation?
Telangana: Minor survivors calls out her rapist
Despite attempts to hush up the crime, a 13-year-old survivor names the man who sexually assaulted her and set her ablaze!
Stop blaming the victim: It is Surendra Singh who needs ‘sanskari’ tutorials
The BJP MLA regularly replays his regressive, perverted ideas on rape, and the BJP is yet to take any action against him
NAPM condemns Caste and Gender-based violence in BJP ruled-states
The People’s Alliance talks about rising violence in Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh while using data from the NCRB as evidence.
Why is the right wing, including the BJP, ready to defend the indefensible?
Hathras: BJP MLA hosts meeting in support of 'upper caste' rapists; Kathua: child’s rapists and murders are supported; Haryana: Dera Sacha Sauda violence supported; Gujarat: Amit Shah defended Kodani, Arun Jaitly defended Modi, and Modi defended himself
Rape survivor dies by suicide, family allege police inaction
A woman in Madhya Pradesh was sexually assaulted by three people while the country raged against the Hathras case.
Mumbai stands with Hathras victim’s family; demands that UP CM resign
Demanding the resignation of UP CM Yogi Adityanath, citizens of Mumbai observed protests in various parts of the city to condemn the heinous sexual assault of Dalit minor girl.
India Unsafe: The escalating heinous crimes against women
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Courts upholds dignity of sex-workers in two important orders
First the SC directed the government to provide Monetary assistance and rations to them without demanding IDs, and now Bombay HC set three of them free recognising prostitution is not an offence
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