-NDTV April 15, Gandhi Nagar, Delhi: A five-year-old girl is raped by two sexual predators, both young adults The shocking gang-rape has raised many questions. Where are the perpetrators of rape coming from? What makes them commit rape? To prevent sexual abuse and sexual violence against children, understanding the minds of the sex offenders is of utmost importance. Experts in the field of mental health and child abuse say perpetrators are like any of...
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The crisis in our community-Nilanjana S Roy
-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...
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-The Hindustan Times Far from the neatly trimmed lawns of India Gate that so often reverberate with cries for justice, far also from the corridors of power where ministries recently squabbled over the right age for consensual sex, lie 197 districts - yes 197, read the figure again - where children are regularly abused. In these districts -- all ridden by conflict -- words like illegal detention, arbitrary arrests, sexual violence, torture...
More »Autopsy shows all injuries to Kolkata student's body sustained before death: sources -Monideepa Banerjie and Mala Das
-NDTV Kolkata: It took nearly two and a half hours for the hearse of Sudipto Gupta, the 22-year-old student activist who died in police custody, to make its way from central Kolkata to the crematorium. Thousands paid tribute to him outside the office of the Students Federation of India, the student wing of the CPI(M), of which Mr Gupta was a member. Grief and anger filled the streets of the city as the...
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-The Indian Express The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre, state governments and Union Territories on the status of police reforms till date. Citing its 2006 order on the issue that included enhanced police accountability, the court asked all chief and home secretaries and DGPs to file their responses on the extent of compliance within a week. A Bench led by G S Singhvi directed the Punjab DGP to file his own...
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