Citizens for Justice and Peace
Open Up For Women
18-Jan-2016
Nalin Mehta In Sabarimala temple case, constitutional right to equality trumps other arguments Should the 1,500 year old Sabarimala Sri Ayyappa temple be opened up to women? The temple authority, Travancore Devaswom Board, cites tradition to say no to women between the ages of 10 to 50 for its sanctum sanctorum. The Supreme Court has…
4 junkies held for boy’s sexual assault, murder
18-Jan-2016
Jan 18 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Mateen Hafeez Mumbai Beer Bottles Led To Breakthrough After 7-Year-Old’s Skeleton Found Four beer bottles found under the Eastern Freeway where a seven-year-old boy’s skeleton was discovered in a cavity under the flyover, helped nail the alleged accused–four drug addicts–three months after the crime. The crime…
5 J&K students claim they were beaten up in Haryana
17-Jan-2016
“The three men were drunk and thrashed us for no reason,” Amir Jameel, one of the victims, told The Sunday Express over the phone from Bijbehra town in south Kashmir. Chandigarh Published:Jan 17, 2016, 2:17 FIVE students from Jammu and Kashmir have alleged that they were beaten up by three men when they had come…
Slight increase in crimes against women
17-Jan-2016
• 17 Jan 2016 • Hindustan Times (Mumbai) • HT Correspondent htmetro@hindustantimes.com ONLY 75% OF CASES SAW THE ARREST OF ONE OR MORE SUSPECTS IN 2015, COMPARED TO 92% OF CASES IN 2014 MUMBAI: The number of crimes against women registered in Mumbai’s south region rose marginally from 2014, when 322 cases were registered, to…
Sex education class leads to molester’s arrest
16-Jan-2016
Jan 16 2016 : Mirror (Mumbai) GITANJALI DAS In perhaps the biggest example highlighting the importance of sex education in schools, a Mulund man was arrested after an 11-year-old student realised that she and a friend had been molested by him after attending once such class. After her teacher’s talk on `good touch and…
Rape and the tyranny of silence
16-Jan-2016
The stories are many, the theme the same. Of the clouds of silence and shame that blanket rape and violent sexual subjugation. Yogesh Pawar unravels narratives hidden in the folds of time to understand the trauma of rape survivors Yogesh Pawar I was 17 when it happened. It took me five years to speak up.…
Father gangrapes minor daughter
15-Jan-2016
Jan 15, 2016 – Aftab Khan | • Nashik In a horrific crime, a father, along with three other men and a minor, allegedly gangraped his minor daughter in Brahmanwada village of Niphad tehsil on December 22. The case came to light recently, when video clips of the horrifying incident started circulating on the messaging…
2 minor girls raped, both accused on run
15-Jan-2016
Jan 15 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Mumbai: TIMES NEWS NETWORK Two underage girls were sexually assaulted in separate instances in Borivali west recently . In both the cases, the police have been unable to nab the accused. Atwo-year-old girl was raped at Ganpat Patil Nagar slums, off Borivli Link Road. Police teams…
Communal clash in Fatehpur on Sankranti
15-Jan-2016
Jan 15 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Communal clash in Fatehpur on Sankranti Faiz Siddiqui Kanpur:More than a dozen people were injured in a clash between members of two communities after a model of the proposed Ram temple in Ayodhya was carried in a procession in Qazi Tola area of Fatehpur district on…
Muzaffarnagar tense after rape victim commits suicide
15-Jan-2016
Mohammad Ali Meerut, January 15, 2016 Police fear issue may take a communal turn; security in village tightened. Muzaffarnagar is on the boil again and this time because of the alleged rape of an ASHA (Accredited Social Health Activist) worker and the subsequent suicide after her rapist circulated the video of the act. The victim,…