She was just 14, and as she waited at home on Monday for her parents to return, two boys broke in. They tried to Rape her, and she fought back. Fed up, the two boys, both under 18, poured kerosene all over her, set her on fire, and left her house. Neighbours rushed to the fields where her parents were working. When they got home, their child was still alive. They...
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Women’s groups urge Moily to amend sexual violence laws by Aarti Dhar
Women’s groups, organisations and individuals have appealed to Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily to amend the laws on sexual violence at the earliest, arguing that there is an urgent need for strict and exemplary action against any state functionaries who conspire to deny justice to victims of sexual violence. The organisations and individuals, coming under the banner of ANHAD, called for a time-bound national discussion on ways to democratically advance...
More »Trials in sexual offences to be completed in 2 months
As a fallout of the Ruchika molestation case, trials in all sexual offences including Rape will now be completed within two months as far as possible and all victims will have the right to appeal against a court order, under new amendments to CrPC. The amendments which came into effect yesterday would come as a big relief to complainants as till now only the state could file an appeal against...
More »A lot of Ruchikas out there by Atul Thakur
Ruchika Girhotra's may be a particularly outrageous example, but things have been getting progressively worse for women in India. Official data shows that crimes against women are rising faster than any other crime. What is worse, investigation of anti-women offences is more tardy than most others. In 2007, the year for which latest data is available from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), seven of the 10 fastest rising crimes...
More »Dalit girl’s gangRape has hung for 11 yrs on an MLA’s note by Parimal Dabhi, Hitarth Pandya
She was a minor; her alleged assaulter a man with clout. The police initially turned her away; while a decade later, her case is still on in courts. And while Ruchika Girhotra’s tragic story may have got the nation’s and government’s ear, no one remembers the then 13-year-old Dalit girl who was allegedly gangRaped on the night of the Dhuleti festival, a day after Holi, in a Vadodara village by...
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