Source:-nationalheraldindia India recorded an average of 87 rape cases daily in 2019 and overall 4,05,861 cases of crime against women during the year, a rise of over 7 per cent from 2018, a latest government data showed Tuesday India recorded an average of 87 rape cases daily in 2019 and overall 4,05,861 cases of crime
Source – newindianexpress.com NEW DELHI: Amidst increasing pendency of cases, vacancies in high courts have already crossed 400. The Centre is facing a challenge in filling the same and is blaming the states for sending the names of judges late to the collegium. Attorney General KK Venugopal told the top court that government alone could
Source – indiatoday.in In 1996, when a Delhi Police team bundled him into a car in Kathmandu, Nepal, Mohammad Ali Bhat was just 25. Bhat, who hailed from Kashmir, was working as a shawl trader in the Nepalese capital. From there, he was taken to Delhi, made an accused in the Lajpat Nagar blast case,
Source – indianexpress.com NOTING THAT there were “instances of abuse” of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, by “vested interests” for political or personal reasons, the Supreme Court on Tuesday laid down stringent safeguards, including provisions for anticipatory bail and a “preliminary enquiry” before registering a case under the
Source – firstpost.com One of the biggest misconceptions around rape is the “other-ing” of both the criminal and the victim — that a “certain” type of man rapes and a “certain” type of woman gets raped (often under “certain” circumstances). The overwhelming complicity of perpetrators in familial positions of power, or those who are known
