-The Times of India KOTTAYAM: In a setback for Rajya Sabha deputy chairman P J Kurien, the principal sessions court, Thodupuzha, on Wednesday ordered that a notice be issued to him on a criminal revision petition filed by the Suriyanelli Rape victim. The Thodupuzha sessions court judge, Abraham Mathew, admitted the plea and issued notices to Dharmarajan, a prime accused in the case, two other accused -- Jamal and Unnikrishnan -- and...

-The Times of India The amended anti-Rape law does not include prostitution as a form of exploitation unlike the ordinance that criminalized sex work. The Criminal Law Amendment Bill, 2013 makes a distinction between sexual exploitation and consensual adult sex work. The move was welcomed by sex workers and activists who had slammed the ordinance that defined prostitution as exploitation. The ordinance cleared by the Cabinet on the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill,...

-PTI A woman, who had alleged that she was Raped and had consequently conceived, was allowed to abort the baby by the Delhi High Court which termed it as "extremely traumatic" and asked AIIMS to preserve the foetus for conducting DNA test. "To carry a child in her womb by a woman as a result of conception through an act of Rape is extremely traumatic, humiliating and psychologically devastating," Justice S P...

-Reuters India approved on Thursday a tougher new law to punish sex crimes, including death for repeat Rape offenders, after the fatal gang Rape of a student in December sparked unprecedented protests over the treatment of women in the country. The Criminal Law (Amendment) Act 2013 or "anti-Rape law" puts in place a slew of new provisions and tougher punishments, which include criminalising voyeurism and stalking and making acid attacks and human...

-The Hindu   The Dalit-Bahujan theory or Ambedkarism cannot negotiate with funny theories of sociologists like Ashis Nandy. The best way to counter them is to write a better theory Utsa Patnaik, a noted economist said in a small note that she circulated "Ashis Nandy had earlier made approving remarks on the 1988 Deorala burning to death of a young widow in the name of sati (terming it a courageous act in a...