-CNN-IBN Mumbai: The Rape and murder of the three sisters in Maharashtra's Bhandara district has led to some status check on the increasing rate of crime against women in the state. An RTI inquiry shows such crimes are on the rise in Maharashtra. The distraught mother who lost her three daughters to unknown rapists - the triple Rape case has brought to focus the growing number of sexual crimes against women in...
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Suryanelli girl’s plea to arraign Kurien rejected
-The Hindu KOCHI/ KATTAPPANA: The Suryanelli Rape victim is expected to move higher courts to get P.J. Kurien, Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, arraigned as an accused in the case. Sources close to the victim said that her decision was taken after the Peerumade Judicial First Class Magistrate Court rejected her private complaint on Saturday. The girl had pleaded for a court order instructing the police to register a fresh case...
More »Every Rape Case Should be Tried In-Camera: Police to HC
-Outlook The Delhi Police today opposed the media plea seeking access to the trial in the December 16 gang Rape case telling the High Court that the enquiry and trial in every Rape case should be held in-camera. Appearing for the police before Justice Rajiv Shakdher, Special Public Prosecutor Dayan Krishnan countered the claim of petitioners that this case is "exceptional" and the media has an independent right derived from the Constitution. "The...
More »Budget 2013: Why the Nirbhaya fund is not what the Indian woman needs
-First Post While Finance Minister P Chidambaram played the knight in the shining armour role to the hilt, going all out to woo the Indian woman – with an all-woman bank, the ‘Nirbhaya’ fund and an empathetic lecture on the girl child- after the shock value wears out, we are only left with measures which at best might only scRape the tip of the iceberg that is women’s development and security...
More »In memoriam: Lotika Sarkar 1923–2013 -Vibhuti Patel
-FeministsIndia.com Saluting Professor Lotika Sarkar who fought to make the country’s laws uphold gender justice and women’s rights Professor Lotika Sarkar who played a central role in several path-breaking and crucial legislations for gender justice and empowerment of women during 1975-2005, passed away at the age of 90 on 23rd February 2013. In the women’s rights movement, she was known as Lotikadee. When other stalwarts of women’s studies touched our hearts with...
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