-The Times of India CHINSURAH/SODEPUR: The body count in the aftermath of the Saradha collapse keeps going up. A director of a micro-finance company was murdered at his home in Hooghly's Chinsurah on Monday even as the father of a chit fund agent hanged himself after being beaten and humiliated by cheated depositors in Sodepur on the northern outskirts of Kolkata. This is the eighth suicide since the Saradha Group meltdown ruined...
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Two rape accused lynched in Rajasthan
-PTI Jaipur: After a recent incident in Bhilwara, Rajasthan, where a rape accused was beaten to death by the five-year-old victim's family members, a similar incident was reported in Hanumangarh where villagers lynched a man for allegedly trying to sexually assault a seven-year-old girl on Tuesday. A 53-year-old man from Gudiya village in Sangaria, Hanumangarh, Trilok Singh Bawri, allegedly took the seven-year-old girl from the village to his house and molested her...
More »Death of a young man-Prabhat Patnaik
-The Telegraph Since I belong to the Left, I know I am likely to be prejudiced against Mamata Banerjee. I try to guard against this prejudice. I try not to let my overall political stance colour my judgment of particular events associated with her. For the last several days, therefore, I have tried to ignore the attacks on Communist Party of India (Marxist) offices in West Bengal in the wake of the...
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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 »Cops put 10-year-old Dalit 'rape victim' behind bars, upper caste villagers 'terrorise' family -Ananya Bhardwaj
-The Indian Express Bulandshahr: Life, for them, had never been easy. The couple and their family of 16 live in a two-room tenement and the father, who works at a local grocery store for a daily wage of Rs 200, is the only earning member. Theirs is also one of four Jatav Dalit families in a majority Lodhe Rajput village just outside Bulandshahr city, and have been under pressure for long. But...
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