Delhi has witnessed a surge in crime against women this year with rape cases recording 158 per cent rise while molestation and eve-teasing incidents went up by 600 and over 700 per cent, respectively. According to statistics released by Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar on Monday, the national capital reported 463 rape cases in 2013 till April 15 as against 179 during the same period in 2012. ...
11:21 PM, Apr 23, 2013
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
Dear Delhi, I belong here. Please let me feel safe in my own home. Speaking strictly from whatever little experience of life I have ...
01:01 PM, Dec 18, 2012
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
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11:57 PM, Dec 06, 2012
While a Punjab policeman was killed by some molesters, five youths killed a 19-year-old in Mumbai for opposing them. ...
11:37 PM, Dec 06, 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
In a shocking case of police apathy in Madhya Pradesh a young man, who was stabbed while trying to protect his sister from eve-teasers, bled to death in a police station with the policemen watching. He was denied medical aid as the police insisted on recording his statement first. ...
11:47 PM, Aug 22, 2012
After the various horrific incidents of girls being molested in different parts of the country, I received a forwarded message which said, "Don't curb your ...
10:50 AM, Aug 05, 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
Supreme Court lawyer Aparna Bhat, who filed the PIL in the Sonali Mukherjee acid attack case, says she is willing to help her for free. ...
02:12 PM, Jul 15, 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
