-The Times of India ROHTAK: The Rohtak police have registered a case against CPM politburo member Brinda Karat and several other activists in connection with a violent clash with police during a march in Rohtak on Monday to protest the spate of rape incidents in Haryana. The protest, organized by All-India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) - the women frontal organisation of CPM, was led by Karat and attended by around 400 activists. They...
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Set up helplines, women’s cell in districts, Centre tells Haryana -Sandeep Joshi
-The Hindu Experts call for special police training to deal with rape victims In the wake of a spurt in the number of rape cases being reported from Haryana, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs has directed the State government to set up a women’s cell in every district and ask the State police chief to take action against district police chiefs who fail act against such crimes. The Ministry has also asked...
More »Lost in Haryana rape debate, a girl’s story -Smriti Kak Ramachandran
-The Hindu For the first 10 days after she was savagely assaulted and raped by eight men, 16-year-old Reshma (name changed) shuttered up her heart and mind, hoping silence would kill her memories of the violence, wrenching physical pain and the waves of shame, anger and fear. The men had threatened to circulate photographs of their crime if she complained, and sworn to kill her family. Now, everyone knows Reshma and her story...
More »Account for rural suicides -Inderjit Singh Jaijee
-The HIndustan Times There is concern again about missing persons and bodies found in canals in Haryana. Surfacing of such bodies in Punjab’s canals has figured in media reports for years. But neither Punjab nor Haryana Police take interest in retrieving the bodies, as the recovery involves reporting it, then attempting to identify it and locating the kin, cremation and maintenance of a record. Pushing bodies downstream eliminates all this bother. But...
More »Child marriage as remedy for rape sparks furore -Sandeep Joshi
-The Hindu Chautala echoes Haryana khap panchayat demand; rape not a black-and-white law and order issue, says Renuka Chowdhury Even as the former Haryana Chief Minister, Om Prakash Chautala, backed demands for new laws that will allow marriage of teenagers saying it would help end the surge in sexual crimes reported from across the State in recent weeks, a senior Congress leader has said that the State’s rape crisis was not a...
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