-The Telegraph Guwahati: Gauhati High Court today said cases of fraud against dubious deposit collecting companies should be probed in a time-bound manner, while their victims' deposits should be refunded using the cash and properties of these firms seized by police. The court stated this during the first hearing of a suo motu PIL (15/2013) it had recently taken up against companies which collect huge deposits from the public by offering lucrative...

-The Hindu Dhule (Maharashtra): A teenage girl's degrading journey from a small village in Nashik to a brothel here ended in February, but no concrete steps have been taken to ensure that such stories do not repeat. Activists alleged that while the brothel-owners and some of their accomplices were arrested, the police chose to ignore a sex racket involving minor girls that is flourishing in the State. Speaking exclusively to The Hindu...

-The Hindu     When displaced by development projects, many migrate to cities as servants, some are lured into prostitution Palakkad: A study conducted by Centre for Development Studies (CDS) on impact of development on tribal people has found that tribal women are the worst sufferers in this process of change. The study, titled ‘Withering Valli: Alienation, degradation and enslavement of tribal women in Attappady' and undertaken along with the Kerala Research Programme on Local...

-The Hindustan Times A day after the police seized Saradha Group chairman Sudipta Sen's property and froze his bank accounts for duping thousands of people with his chit-fund money-trap, a PIL was filed in Calcutta high court petitioning the court to order a CBI enquiry into the Saradha Group. Income Tax officials and Left MPs have also decided to nail all those involved with the dubious firm. While the Income-Tax department is planning...

-The Hindu   "Stopping rape" isn't possible unless we change the way we tackle and think about ordinary violence Some images stay branded on your mind. The brutality visited on three young girls, before their bodies were found in a well; the pain of a five-year-old whose rapist used candles and an oil bottle to violate her further; the anger of the Dalit rape survivor in Uttar Pradesh who was told by a...