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‘Snatching cases rose, molestation fewer last year than in 2006’

While cases of molestation in the Capital came down in 2008, compared to 2006, FIRs registered for carjacking and robbery remained the same, and snatching cases showed an increase last year compared to 2006. This was disclosed by Minister of State for Home Mullappally Ramachandran in reply to a question in Parliament on the number of Murder, robbery, teasing, chain snatching and carjacking cases reported in Delhi, and the number...

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Medha fears fake encounter

Social activist Medha Patkar has approached Governor M.C. Bhandare, apprehending fake encounter of the Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangh leader Nachika Linga even as police recommended that the government ban the organisation for its alleged Maoist links and violent activities. A delegation of social activists led by Patkar approached the governor with a memorandum containing a list of demands in support of the organisation. The team included Prafulla Samantra of the Lokshakti...

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Irom And The Iron In India’s Soul by Shoma Chaudhury

SOMETIMES, TO accentuate the intransigence of the present, one must revisit the past. So first, a flashback. The year is 2006. An ordinary November evening in Delhi. A slow, halting voice breaks into your consciousness. “How shall I explain? It is not a punishment, but my bounden duty…” A haunting phrase in a haunting voice, made slow with pain yet magnetic in its moral force. “My bounden duty.” What could...

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It is well known that India’s record of violence against women is dismal but the bigger shock is the revelation that incidents of such violence are consistently rising. According to a report by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), the rate of increase in violence against women in 2007 was over 12 per cent as compared to the previous year. The most depressing part of the report is...

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