Citizens for Justice and Peace
Woman, two kids burnt alive
15-Oct-2015
GONDA (U.P.), October 15, 2015 A 28-year-old woman and her two children were allegedly burnt for dowry in Susaila village in Tarabganj area here, police said on Wednesday. The woman Arti and her children Sachin (5) and Chhama (3) were asleep when they were engulfed in fire “under mysterious circumstances” and died, Circle Officer Vijay…
‘Missing Ghatkopar infant was raped and murdered’
13-Oct-2015
dna correspondent @dna Ghatkopar police on Monday registered a case of rape and murder against unknown person after the post-mortem report confirmed vaginal injuries on the body of a two-and-a-half-year-old girl whose body was recovered on October 9 near Sangarsh Nagar in Sakinaka. The victim — a resident of Ramji Nagar in Ghatkopar (West) —…
Enraged man kills wife in Gandhinagar, arrested
11-Oct-2015
Oct 12 2015 : The Times of India (Ahmedabad) Ahmedabad: TIMES NEWS NETWORK A 25-year-old woman was bludgeoned to death by her husband near Gandhinagar railw ay station late on Saturday night.The couple got into an altercation as the husband came home drunk. Sector 7 police have arrested the accused on Sunday. According to Sector…
Govt. can’t punish us for lack of education: Women on Haryana new poll law
08-Oct-2015
Legal Correspondent NEW DELHI, October 8, 2015 Women candidates affected by Haryana’s new poll law imposing minimum educational qualifications to contest panchayat elections told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that “people do not choose to be illiterate.” “In fact, it is the State’s failure to have not provided us with education. We should not be…
Man hands out triple talaq through WhatsApp
08-Oct-2015
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 08, 2015, DHNS: A 21-year-old female BDS student in Kerala was handed out a triple talaq by her husband on WhatsApp, about a month after their wedding. The incident, happened in early 2014, came to light after the girl, a native of Cherthala in Alappuzha district, approached the Kerala Women’s Commission (KWC) during…
Govt. can’t punish us for lack of education: Women on Haryana new poll law
08-Oct-2015
Legal Correspondent NEW DELHI, October 8, 2015 Women candidates affected by Haryana’s new poll law imposing minimum educational qualifications to contest panchayat elections told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that “people do not choose to be illiterate.” “In fact, it is the State’s failure to have not provided us with education. We should not be…
Man hands out triple talaq through WhatsApp
08-Oct-2015
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 08, 2015, DHNS: A 21-year-old female BDS student in Kerala was handed out a triple talaq by her husband on WhatsApp, about a month after their wedding. The incident, happened in early 2014, came to light after the girl, a native of Cherthala in Alappuzha district, approached the Kerala Women’s Commission (KWC) during…
Bengaluru: BPO employee abducted, raped for over three hours
06-Oct-2015
Oct 06, 2015 | Age Correspondent| Bengaluru Van driver, cleaner sexually assaulted the girl for 3 hours Bengaluru: In an incident strikingly similar to the Delhi gangrape case, a 22-year-old BPO employee was raped for over three hours by a driver and a cleaner of a Tempo Traveller on Saturday night. The survivor who boarded…
Family gets 10 years rigorous imprisonment for acid attack
06-Oct-2015
Oct 06, 2015 | A sessions court in Mumbai on Monday convicted and sentenced a woman along with her husband and son to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for throwing acid on her three sisters and a year-old child. According to public prosecutor Jyoti Sawant, all the victims and the accused women were sisters. The…
Rapists still not caught in Nirmal Nagar gang-rape case
06-Oct-2015
Tuesday, October 06, 2015 By Zuber Ansari More than a month has passed since the gang rape of the 20-year old girl in Nalasopara, but the Nirmal Nagar police who are investigating the case are yet to get hold of the trio accused of gang rape. Shockingly, these three individuals are not only wanted in…