Citizens for Justice and Peace
SC scans Shah Bano law
28-Oct-2015
R. Balaji New Delhi, Oct. 27: The Supreme Court has ruled that the controversial law enacted by the Rajiv Gandhi government to annul the Shah Bano judgment should be visited by a constitution bench and Muslim women cannot be discriminated against in terms of polygamy and alimony. The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce)…
WOMAN UNDER ATTACK – Teen caught for raping 5-year-old
28-Oct-2015
Oct 28 2015 : The Times of India (Ahmedabad) Ahmedabad: TIMES NEWS NETWORK A 15-year-old boy has been apprehended by Amraiwadi police for allegedly raping a 5-year-old girl at his neighbour’s terrace. The incident took place on Monday night.The girl and the boy were sent for medical examination on Tuesday . According to police, parents…
Transgender Urmi Jadhav forced to vacate rented home
28-Oct-2015
‘Housing For All’ by 2022 may be the new mantra of the government in the state and Centre. But the city seems to have no apartment that a transgender person can rent out. Urmi Jadhav, research associate at Humsafar Trust, which works for the LGBT community in the city, had to vacate her rented her…
SC scans Shah Bano law
28-Oct-2015
R. Balaji New Delhi, Oct. 27: The Supreme Court has ruled that the controversial law enacted by the Rajiv Gandhi government to annul the Shah Bano judgment should be visited by a constitution bench and Muslim women cannot be discriminated against in terms of polygamy and alimony. The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce)…
WOMAN UNDER ATTACK – Teen caught for raping 5-year-old
28-Oct-2015
Oct 28 2015 : The Times of India (Ahmedabad) Ahmedabad: TIMES NEWS NETWORK A 15-year-old boy has been apprehended by Amraiwadi police for allegedly raping a 5-year-old girl at his neighbour’s terrace. The incident took place on Monday night.The girl and the boy were sent for medical examination on Tuesday . According to police, parents…
Transgender Urmi Jadhav forced to vacate rented home
28-Oct-2015
‘Housing For All’ by 2022 may be the new mantra of the government in the state and Centre. But the city seems to have no apartment that a transgender person can rent out. Urmi Jadhav, research associate at Humsafar Trust, which works for the LGBT community in the city, had to vacate her rented her…
Surat woman sacrifices her baby girl
27-Oct-2015
As per police, Shakuntala had already injured her baby before she left her at Yadav’s place Shakuntala inflicted burn injuries on her 3-month- old baby dna correspondent Surat: A 25-year-old woman was arrested by Surat police for allegedly sacrificing her three-month-old daughter. The infant had suffered serious burn marks on her stomach, which according to…
Kerala: Protest against gender segregation in Farook college ends in clash
27-Oct-2015
Farook College — a prominent institution under Muslim management in Kozhikode — adheres to a strict code of conduct which disallows free intermingling between female and male students. Written by Shaju Philip | Thiruvananthapuram | Updated: October 27, 2015 2:35 am Students representing different factions clashed during a protest march against the management of a…
Thane woman booked for bid to sell minor stepdaughter
26-Oct-2015
Five people from Kalyan, including the stepmother of a 17-year-old girl, have been booked for allegedly trying to sell the girl for Rs 2 lakh. The girl and her father escaped to Aurangabad and approached the Satara police on Saturday . The Satara police registered an offence and transferred the case to the Kalyan police,…
Man sets teen ablaze for refusing sexual advances, held
23-Oct-2015
The accused has been identified as Harish Bhandari, a resident of Nargol in Valsad taluka. By: Express News Service | Surat | Published:October 23, 2015 12:17 am Umargam police in Surat Thursday arrested a 62-year old auto driver for killing a 15-year-old girl by pouring kerosene on her body and setting her ablaze, after she…