The victim’s father died Monday at a hospital, allegedly of injuries sustained in an assault by MLA Kuldip Singh Senger’s brother Atul and their aides on 3 April in Unnao.
IGP Mamta Singh says most rapists are known to victims, the problem seems to be that women and their families have ‘too much faith’ in men around them.
3 Dalits awarded capital punishment for rape and murder of Maratha girl last year, but Dalits say justice is rarely served if victim is from a lower caste.
Chargesheeting rate in rape cases is high. Conviction rate has, however, gone down post-Nirbhaya incident. If stricter laws were a solution, we should have had a better situation.
The HRW report only goes to show how structures of “due process” often don’t work, especially for women at the intersections of multiple marginalisations.
Maharashtra was one of the first states to roll out a landmark scheme for helping rape survivors and victims of child abuse following the outrage over the gang-rape of a photojournalist in a Mumbai mill in 2013.
Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.
On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.
L’etat c’est moi is how Yogiji is running his state. As early as a year from now, the good people of Uttar Pradesh will render their verdict on his performance.
L’etat c’est moi is how Yogiji is running his state. As early as a year from now, the good people of Uttar Pradesh will render their verdict on his performance.