Gender Based Violence

Sonal Kellogg

Bulli Bai App: Auctioning Muslim women yet another way to humiliate and demean them

Mumbai police arrest three persons in this case, all aged between 18 and 21 years. Delhi police arrested the creator of Bulli Bai app and also the creator of Sulli Deals app
Ritesh Ranjan

Supreme Court denies bail to accused, says a new trend of snake bite murders

The Incident was talk-of-town in 2019 when a woman was murdered by her daughter-in-law by getting her bitten by a snake in Rajasthan’s Jhunjhunu
Ritesh Ranjan

Medical officer in government hospital allegedly attacks wife with blade in Bihar's Gaya

Police in a dilemma since father-in-law of the woman has lodged a complaint against the doctor’s wife and her brother of assaulting his son
LIFENEWS

Chhattisgarh High Court views sexual intercourse with legally wedded wife, even without her consent, not rape

Even though media is sensationalising the issue, Eminent Lawyer Flavia Agnes, feels the Judge cannot be held incorrect in his interpretation – it is more a problem of the legislature than the judiciary
Neelam Jeena

Andhra woman set ablaze by her stalker suffers 60 per cent burns

Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy took the incident seriously and directed officials to ensure better treatment for the victim
Anshrah Naz

Domestic Violence valid reason for medically terminating pregnancy: Bombay High Court

The applicant filed to terminate her pregnancy citing mental trauma of domestic violence.
Neelam Jeena

Minor girl assaulted, thrown off the roof by three men in Mathura district

The accused had been harassing the girl for a long time.
Neelam Jeena

Woman paraded naked, beaten up; three detained

Villagers were allegedly punishing the woman for leaving her husband for another man
Asha Prakash

Trivandrum Press Club continues to protect journalist who abused woman colleague

The accused barged into the house of a woman colleague and threatened her and her children wrongly blaming her for having an illicit affair
Asha Prakash

Women locked up, tortured, and raped by live-in partner for three weeks in Kerala

The accused borrowed Rs 5 lakhs from his partner and promised to pay her Rs 40,000 each month but when he didn't pay the money she asked for it. That is when her torturous ordeal began
Sonal Kellogg

Rape victims still subjected to vaginal two-finger test though illegal in India

Laws against sexual violence across South Asia insufficient, inconsistent, poorly enforced and often revictimises the survivors found a new report.
Tazeen Qureshy

Woman impregnated by uncle as minor forced to live with him as wife

Parent got her to abort and then forced her to stay with her uncle fearing social ostracisation. The woman worked up the courage to speak up 15 years later after giving birth to three daughters.
LIFENEWS

Stop social exclusion of women: Gujarat High Court

The court asked the state to spread awareness about menstrual cycle and to conduct sensitization programmes of health workers
I was beaten because I am a Dalit and a woman: Nodeep Kaur

Nodeep, a member of the Mazdoor Adhikar Sangathan (MAS) was arrested on January 12, 2021, when she participated in a protest held by unpaid labourers near Singhu border between Haryana and Delhi.