-Hindustan Times Till June, 2017, as many as 58 rape cases have been registered in Gurgaon. Women said they feel unsafe commuting to and from work With a spurt in rape, Molestation and other crimes against women in Gurgaon, the women no longer feel safe in the city. Incidents of eve teasing and harassment have also raised concern over women’s safety in the city. “I don’t prefer going out alone after 9 pm. This...
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Cases of rape, Molestation down in Delhi this year -Raj Shekhar
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Crime against women seems to have reduced in the capital this year. According to figures released by Delhi Police, 836 cases of rape have been reported till May 31 compared with 924 in the same period last year. Molestation cases have gone down from 1,841 to 1,412. The trend is attributed to a slew of measures taken by police commissioner Amulya Patnaik. These include deploying women...
More »Haryana govt bows to girl power -Ashok Kumar
-The Hindu School in Gothra Tappa Dahina village in Rewari to be upgraded to senior secondary level GURUGRAM: The Haryana government on Wednesday acceded to the demand of girl students in Gothra Tappa Dahina village, Rewari, to upgrade their school to the senior secondary level. Many of the girls had been on a hunger strike for the last eight days. The students had alleged that on their way to the larger school in...
More »Sexual violence against women in riots and other mass crimes is being 'normalised' -Syeda Hameed and Salina Wilson
-Hindustan Times We live in a social regime where women are seen as an embodiment of men’s izzat (honour). Attacking ‘their women’ then becomes the undoing of the whole community. Bilkis Bano. The name and the face have been haunting me since the judgment was announced on her case by the Bombay High Court on May 4. In March 2002, our group of six women arrived in Ahmedabad to document what had...
More »Delhi: One girl raped every 12 hours, one crime against kids every hour -Karn Pratap Singh
-Hindustan Times Delhi was shamed again when a four-year-old girl was raped and murdered on Thursday afternoon. But such incidents are not new in a city that is also notoriously known as the rape capital of India. Three months ago, a four-year-old girl was brutalized and murdered, allegedly by her father’s friend. The culprit was captured on CCTV camera luring the girl to a secluded place. In April last year, an eight-year-old girl...
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