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Fake job ads, spiked drinks & webcams: How Indian-origin man in Australia lured Korean women and raped them
Indian-origin Balesh Dhankhar had a fetish for Korean women and sought them out after initial encounters under the pretext of job interviews. He used to spike the women’s drinks and rape them while recording the assault on a hidden camera
Pakistani rapist serving life in jail freed as he marries deaf survivor who birthed his child
The order of a court to release rape accused has drawn flak from rights activists who say it legitimises sexual assault against women in Pakistan where a majority of rape goes unreported
Badaun rerun? How Dalit sisters found hanging from tree in UP’s Lakhimpur Kheri evoke memories of 2014 horror
In 2014, the bodies of two Dalit cousins were found hanging from a branch of a mango tree in Uttar Pradesh’s Badaun district. Eight years later, similar scenes have unfolded in Lakhimpur Kheri where two minor girls have been found dead with family members alleging rape
Delhi: Five arrested in 23-year-old woman’s murder case
On Saturday, a 23-year-old woman was found dead with her throat slit inside an office in northwest Delhi’s Azadpur area
Women, girls safer in India since 2015, say NFHS figures: Government in Parliament
Domestic violence, including violence during pregnancy down from NFHS-4 survey period. No increase in sexual violence against girls under 18 years was reported under Modi regime
WATCH: Hyderabad woman stabbed by stalker on busy road
According to the police, 45-year-old Noor Bano was stabbed by her neighbour Habeeb. She is currently undergoing treatment
How bulldozer becomes the most iconic weapon against land mafia’s illegal encroachments in Uttar Pradesh
The bulldozer has been put to ingenious use in Uttar Pradesh and now the Madhya Pradesh government has also announced that those involved in crime against women will be suitably dealt with by the bulldozer strategy
Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election results 2022: Explaining the M-Y factors behind BJP’s big win
M-Y in UP politics traditionally signified the Muslim-Yadav vote bank. But the BJP gave it a whole new meaning. Be it the Modi-Yogi combo or mahila and youth-centric schemes, it’s all worked out in the party’s favour
Marital rape: Sex worker has right to say no, why not married woman, asks Delhi HC
Senior advocate Raj Shekhar Rao, who is appointed as an amicus curiae to assist the court, argued that husband and wife are “two equals before the law” and there is no reason “why husband’s desire to have sex trump the wife’s desire not to”
About 31,000 complaints of crimes against women received in 2021, over half from UP: NCW data
There was a 30 percent rise in complaints of crimes against women in 2021 as compared to 2020 when 23,722 complaints were received.
India recorded 77 rape cases, 80 murders daily in 2020, says NCRB report; crimes against women highest in Rajasthan
Among states, UP reported the maximum of 3,779 murder cases, followed by Bihar with 3,150 cases, in Maharashtra 2,163 cases were registered, the data showed
Crimes against women, children drop in 2020 but disobedience cases up, says NCRB
A total of 3,71,503 cases of crime against women were registered during 2020, showing a decline of 8.3 percent over 2019
‘We should judge systems like the police in how they respond to people with the least, not the most’: Sonia Faleiro
The culmination of four years of exhaustive research on the Budaun teenagers’ deaths, Faleiro's new book, The Good Girls, paints a distressing picture of gendered inequalities in modern India.
The archaic, patriarchal mores at the heart of suggestions that women can marry their rapists as 'compromise'
These attitudes have the support of not only society and families, but also the courts themselves.
No injury marks on Unnao victims' bodies, viscera test to be conducted, says UP Police chief
UP DGP Hitesh Chandra Awasthi also said that the cause of death of the two teenagers could not be ascertained and that the police is taking the help of forensic experts and looking into all possibilities
Uttar Pradesh: Two minor girls found dead in a field in Unnao; another undergoing treatment
Unnao SP Anand Kulkarni said that bodies of the victims have been sent for postmortem and an investigation is underway
Bihar: Deaf and mute 15-yr-old gangraped, eyes damaged in Madhubani district; three arrested
'Both her eyes were damaged, but it is yet to be ascertained whether she has completely lost her eyesight,' doctors attending to the girl in Madhubani Sadar Hospital said
Pornhub content purge crucial move, but to root out non-consensual porn, society must question 'normalised' rape culture
The rape culture purports it as the responsibility of trafficked women or victims of revenge porn to ensure that their non-consensual videos do not end up online while placing no onus on the platform to disallow such content or to take swift and strict action on non-consensual porn
Woman gang-raped in Jharkhand's Dumka; NCW asks police to complete probe in two months
The woman was raped and her husband held hostage by 17 men when the couple was returning from the market on Tuesday night, said reports
Teenage girl axed to death in UP's Banda district; police suspect rape and murder
The police said that teams have been formed to nab the accused who is absconding while the body of the deceased has been sent for a post-mortem examination