Women commuters in Kolkata say that they think twice before getting into a cab, taxi or any other public transport because street sexual harassment has become very common in the city. ...
10:00 AM, Dec 19, 2012
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 Akali Dal government in Punjab has finally taken strong action in the Amritsar molestation case. Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal has ordered the dismissal of all the policemen who ran away from the spot instead of taking on the accused in the Amritsar case, in which, a policeman was allegedly shot dead as he tried to save his daughters from molesters. ...
03:07 PM, Dec 11, 2012
Every day seems to bring a new criminal assault on women. A senior citizen was raped on Sunday in Mumbai and in a bizarre dress code diktat a college in Haryana has ordered women not to wear jeans saying it is against Indian culture. The question is whether we are in denial about the rapidly rising crimes and prejudices against women today. CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose discussed the issue...
11:33 AM, Dec 11, 2012
In another case of molestation in Punjab, a man trying to protect the victim was beaten up. The man who intervened was a freelance journalist. Police say Ashwini Malhotra was shopping with his family members when some persons in an inebriated condition allegedly started harassing a girl. ...
08:27 AM, Dec 11, 2012
Private security guards are to be deployed at the gates of over 500 civic agency-run primary schools in Delhi to tackle rising incidences of harassment and molestation of girl students, an official has said. "We have planned to deploy private security guards, from government-approved agencies, in primary schools by the next academic year after several cases of molestation came to our notice," said Manish Gupta, commissioner of South Delhi Municipal...
05:17 PM, Dec 09, 2012
The Punjab government on Saturday suspended DIG Border Range PS Umranangal over the murder of ASI Ravinderpal Singh, who was shot dead by a local Akali member three days ago for resisting his daughter's harassment. The action came following a visit by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to Rampura village where he met the family of the slain policeman. ...
11:32 PM, Dec 08, 2012
In yet another shocker, a six-year-old girl from Kurumpady in Kerala's Ernakulam district was allegedly sexually abused by her 40-year-old father for six months after being forced to drink alcohol. Police have registered a case against the man, who is absconding, following a complaint by the girl's mother that he had been sexually abusing the child for the past six months. ...
06:43 PM, Dec 08, 2012
Concerned over the spate of molestation cases in the state, the Maharashtra government is considering a proposal to make it a non-bailable offence. Minister for Women and Child Welfare Varsha Gaikwad told PTI that she will discuss the issue with Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan and set up a committee comprising social workers and women legislators to examine a draft bill called the Maharashtra Prohibition of Eve-teasing and Harassment of Women...
06:00 PM, Dec 08, 2012
Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB) has suspended the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) of the Institute, CV Indushekar Vassist, for alleged sexual harassment, IIMB sources said on Saturday. The suspension came to light when the IIMB Director Pankaj Chandra sent an internal mail to the faculty which said "the Gender Sensitivity Committee (GSC) of the Institute inquired into the complaint against CV Indushekar Vassist, our CAO, and submitted its report."...
04:57 PM, Dec 08, 2012
There has still been no action against the men and a policeman who allegedly harassed a Manipuri woman on Thursday. The theatre person had filed two FIRs, one against the bike rider who hit her car but was let off by a traffic policeman and another against a group of men and the policeman who shoved her and passed lewd and racist comments. ...
11:16 AM, Dec 08, 2012
Even as the accused in the horrific Guwahati mob molestation case were convicted on Friday, yet another woman became the victim of mob violence. The incident happened in Bangalore, which was recently tagged as the best Indian city to live in by a survey. ...
06:52 PM, Dec 07, 2012
In another case of Northeast Indians being targeted, a theatre person from Manipur alleged that she was heckled by a crowd in Bangalore, that passed lewd and racist comments and abused her. What is even more shocking is that the policeman who she turned to for help allegedly ended up shouting back and shoving her and called her a nuisance. ...
12:28 PM, Dec 07, 2012
In another case of Northeast Indians being targeted, a theatre person from Manipur alleged that she was heckled by a crowd in Bangalore, that passed lewd and racist comments and abused her. What's even more shocking is that the policeman who she turned to for help allegedly ended up shouting back and shoving her. ...
11:08 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
An Assistant Sub Inspector in Amritsar was killed trying to save his daughter from molesters. The man who allegedly shot him, expelled Shiromani Akali Dal leader Ranjit Singh Rana, has been arrested with his accomplice. ...
03:57 PM, Dec 06, 2012
The Punjab police have arrested former Shiromani Akali Dal leader Ranjit Singh Rana and another accused in the Amritsar case where a policeman was shot dead for saving his daughter from molesters. Two other accused are absconding. An Assistant Sub Inspector, Ravinder Singh, of the Punjab Police was shot dead allegedly by molesters who were harassing his daughter. The incident took place on Wednesday, when Ravinder Singh had gone to...
09:57 AM, Dec 06, 2012
An Assistant Sub Inspector of the Punjab Police, Ravinder Singh, was shot dead in Amritsar by molesters who were harassing his daughter. The accused are still roaming free, even as eye witnesses claim the police reached the spot late, in spite of the fact that the place was right in the middle of the city. ...
08:35 AM, Dec 06, 2012
