Mumbai Police Commissioner Satyapal Singh says policemen have "many limitations" in going after molesters that they don't even have a right to slap them. And the city's top cop has come up with a possible solution - the victims should slap those who tease them to help police bring to book the culprits without worrying of being questioned. ...
08:20 PM, Feb 12, 2013
The victim of the Amritsar sexual harassment horror said that the police did not act on her complaint and added that the police fled as assailants shot her father Ravinder Singh, who was a cop himself. ...
07:27 AM, Dec 07, 2012
In a case disturbingly similar to the Keenan Reuben murders of 2011, Dombivali boy Santosh Vichivara was knifed to death for taking on goons who were harassing a girl in his colony. As many as five people have been arrested in the case, of which four minors have been sent to juvenile homes. The other accused, who is an 18-year-old youth was sent to 10-day custody. ...
09:25 PM, Dec 06, 2012
A day after a Punjab policeman was murdered in full public view for raising voice against men who misbehaved with his daughter, another brutal murder has come to light. ...
08:12 AM, Dec 06, 2012
Gwalior: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that those indulging in molestation and sexual harassment will not be get driving licence, passport and other government facilities. The step is being taken to control the menace in the state, Chouhan said during a function at the Gwalior trade fair in Gwalior on Monday evening. Those found involved in molestation would not be given driving licence, passport and character...
01:03 PM, Nov 20, 2012
Mumbai: Charges were framed against the accused in the Keenan-Reuben murder case on Tuesday. According to reports, the trial will start from November 6. 28-year-old Reuben Fernandez and 25-year-old Keenan Santos were killed by a group of four in October last year after they objected to misbehaviour with their women companions. Four people were arrested for murder and sexual harassment and several others were booked for rioting in the case....
02:22 PM, Oct 23, 2012
Batala: A man was hacked to death by a youth while trying to protect his daughter from the eve teaser in the Kot Majlis village, police said on Saturday. Suman Kumar was brutally murdered by Sabi, who also resides in Kot Majlis village under Qila Lal Singh Police Station on Friday night, they said. According to police, Kumar on several occasions had asked Sabi to stop eve teasing his daughter...
08:03 PM, Sep 22, 2012
Bokaro: Even as financial and medical help pours in for acid attack victim Sonali Mukherjee, justice still eludes her. It's just the beginning of a long battle ahead for her. As soon as she reached her hometown of Bokaro in Jharkhand, she went to meet the Bokaro Deputy Commissioner, demanding justice. Her family, meanwhile, has knocked on every possible door, to help secure a job for her. It approached Jharkhand...
09:14 AM, Aug 01, 2012
New Delhi: They came in the dead of night, broke into her home as she slept and poured a cocktail of acids over her face - burning her skin, melting her eyelids, nose, mouth and ears, and leaving her partially deaf and almost blind. Her crime - she had spurned their sexual advances. Nine years on, Sonali Mukherjee, 27, is appealing to the government for medical support for skin reconstructive...
10:39 PM, Jul 27, 2012
Twenty-seven-year-old Sonali Mukherjee has been running from pillar to post for the past nine years fighting for justice. She was attacked with acid when she spurned the advances of three men in her neighbourhood in her village in Dhanbad, the capital of Jharkhand. However, nine years on, justice still eludes her and her perpetrators remain scot free. Sonali, meanwhile, has demanded euthanasia to help end her struggle as her family...
11:51 AM, Jul 17, 2012
Mumbai: Amidst the national outrage over the Guwahati mob molestation incident, BJP Mahila Morcha National President Smriti Irani had said India was a nation of headline chasers. "The outrage lasts only till the headlines last," she had said. Her outburst finds resonance with Valerian Santos, the father of Keenan who was murdered in October 2011 along with his friend Reuben as they tried to protect a female friend of theirs...
09:40 AM, Jul 16, 2012
New Delhi: A 27-year-old victim of an acid attack has been struggling to get justice for the past nine years. All her pleas, however, have fallen on deaf ears and her perpetrators are roaming scot-free. The distraught girl has now demanded euthanasia as her family cannot meet her medical costs. Sonali Mukherjee's story displays the raw indifference of the society and our inability to protect those who can't protect themselves....
07:38 AM, Jul 15, 2012
Mumbai: Charges will be framed in the Keenan-Reuben murder case in the Bombay High Court on Friday. The two youngsters were stabbed to death by a mob in October in 2011 for fighting against sexual harassment. Four people were arrested for murder and sexual harassment and several others were booked for rioting in the case. On October 20, 2011, 28-year-old Reuben Fernandez and 25-year-old Keenan Santos were attacked with choppers...
08:21 AM, Jun 21, 2012
Mumbai: Charges will be framed in the Keenan-Reuben murder case on Friday. The two youngsters were stabbed to death by a mob in October in 2011 for taking on eve-teasers. Four people were arrested for murder and eve teasing and several others were booked for rioting in the case. On October 20, 2011, 28-year-old Reuben Fernandez and 25-year-old Keenan Santos were attacked with choppers by a group of four, after...
08:54 AM, Apr 27, 2012
New Delhi: Hours after the Gurgaon police appeared to struggle to arrest the gang of six who have been accused of raping a 23-year-old woman close to the Sahara Mall, the swish township's reputation of modernity being just a facade for brute lawlessness is gathering strength. Most residents now believe their safety is only about self-initiative. Ajay Dube, a member of the Residents' Management committee, says, "We have to arrange...
07:49 AM, Mar 14, 2012
New Delhi: A harassment incident led to death of two class twelve students in Jind, Haryana. Two schoolgirls riding a two-wheeler were crushed to death by a truck after men on motorcycles allegedly tried to tease them. The truck driver and the two motorcycle-borne men are all absconding. ...
11:17 AM, Jan 21, 2012
New Delhi: Additional charges have been slapped to the killers of bravehearts Keenan Santos and Ruben Fernandes. Jitendra Rana and his accomplices have been charged with outraging a woman's modesty and criminal intimidation apart from murder. This has been done after the remaining two witnesses including Priyanka Fernandes' statements were recorded. The Mumbai police has also set up special squads with women personnel in the western suburbs of Mumbai to...
09:06 AM, Nov 08, 2011
Mumbai braveheart Reuben's brother Benjamin Fernandes says if such criminals are not stopped, no woman will be safe. ...
11:15 PM, Nov 03, 2011
Mumbai: As part of their unique 'Chappal Marungi' campaign, BMM students at Wilson college are encouraging victims of eve teasing to strike back at molesters. Within a month of its commencement, the one-of-a-kind 'Chappal Marungi' campaign, spearheaded by media students of Wilson college, had enjoyed unprecedented popularity. Six hundred people have expressed their approval on social networking sites for the drive, which was undertaken to create awareness among women about...
12:56 PM, Sep 22, 2011
New Delhi: Having made their point in Toronto, Melbourne and Montreal, the "sluts" now plan to walk in New Delhi as part of a global campaign against sexual violence. The now famous 'SlutWalk' started in response to a Toronto police officer who said "women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimised." It originated with an intention to protest against the belief that female rape victims are...
01:46 PM, Jun 07, 2011
