Citizens for Justice and Peace
Journalist assaulted by Gujarat riot convict
21-Jan-2016
Jan 21, 2016 – Souvik Mitra | New Delhi A former TV journalist was allegedly assaulted by a convict of the 2002 Naroda Patiya massacre case in Gujarat when she had gone to interview him at his Ahmedabad house on Wednesday evening. Former NDTV journalist Revati Laul, who has been living in Ahmedabad for over…
Panchayat asks man to let wife be raped to repay loan
21-Jan-2016
Jan 21, 2016 – Aftab Khan | • Nashik A jat (caste) panchayat in rural Maharashtra had allegedly asked a villager to allow members of the panchayat to rape his wife if he is unable to repay the loan taken from the panchayat. Andhashraddha Nirmulan Samiti had come out in support of the complainant couple.…
4-year-old raped in Borivli, second incident in a week
20-Jan-2016
• 20 Jan 2016 • Hindustan Times (Mumbai) MUMBAI: Three days after a two-year-old girl was sexually assaulted in Ganpat Patil Nagar slum in Borivli, a 52-year-old man was arrested for sexually assaulting a four-year-old girl in the same area on Monday. The accused approached the girl, who was playing outside her house, on Saturday.…
Kolkata film school prof held for `rape’ Priyanka Dasgupta
20-Jan-2016
Jan 20 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Kolkata: Picked Up From Thane After He Had Gone Missing Neeraj Sahay , a professor at Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute SRFTI), was arrested in Thane, Maharashtra, on Tuesday evening, around seven weeks after a student accused him of forcing her into sex. The Panchasayer…
Riots rape clip triggers tension in Muzzaffarnagar
20-Jan-2016
Jan 20 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Meerut: TIMES NEWS NETWORK One of UP’s most restive districts is on the boil again after a rape clip, of a woman getting violated during the riots of 2013 in Muzaffarnagar, went public earlier last week. BJP leaders, some of them accused in the riots, have…
Four-year-old allegedly raped by conductor in school bus in Ujjain
20-Jan-2016
Jan 20, 2016 | • Agencies | • Ujjain The alleged rapist tried to escape but has been arrested. Ujjain: A four-year-old girl was allegedly raped in a moving school bus by the conductor in Ujjain on Tuesday. According to latest reports, the alleged rapist tried to escape but has been arrested. A case has…
Shakti Mills gangrape case: Minor accused’s treatment may come to haunt cops
20-Jan-2016
Jan 20, 2016 – Shahab Ansari | mumbai The trials in the 2013 gang rape cases in Central Mumbai’s deserted Shakti Mills compound could be one of the most successful as the prosecution not only managed to prove guilt of all the arrested accused, but also secured death sentence under a newly-amended law for three…
Four suicide bids by rape victim in Muzaffarnagar after her video surfaced, says family
20-Jan-2016
He father, a 50-year-old farmer, said, Every time I speak to her, she tells me that she does not want to live. Why did she not tell us what she was undergoing all these years? Written by Aditi Vatsa | Muzaffarnagar | Updated: January 20, 2016 9:21 am Two days ago, the family shifted her…
Woman confesses to killing lover; husband still at large
20-Jan-2016
• 20 Jan 2016 • Hindustan Times (Mumbai) • HTC MUMBAI: A woman in her early twenties was arrested by the Malwani police on Tuesday for allegedly murdering her lover with the help of her husband. According to the police, Saira Bano Shaikh was having an extra-marital affair with Chandan Yadav, the 22-year-old man whose…
Call for 1991 Sabarimala case records: Kerala
19-Jan-2016
Krishnadas Rajagopal NEW DELHI, January 19, 2016 A Division Bench of the Kerala HC had upheld the restriction on women of a particular age group offering worship at the shrine. In a submission that may indicate the Kerala government’s position on access to women aged between 10 and 50 to the Sabarimala shrine, the State…