“Mewat: Locals forced to dress girls in boys’ clothes to hide their identity as crimes against women rise in the Islamists dominated area”, Opindia, January 19, 2025:
“People living in the Mewat region of Nuh, a Muslim-majority district in Haryana, are being forced to hide women and even girls. A ground report of Dainik Bhaskar exposes the ground situation in Mewat where rising cases of sexual crimes against women and girls are forcing people to hide women in their families.
As per the report, it is common for people in Mewat to cross-dress girls as boys to protect them from becoming ‘targets’. In the report, two women journalists from Dainik Bhaskar narrated their experience of travelling through villages in Mewat.
“It is 7 PM. We are in Alwar of Mewat region where rape cases are on the rise. We explored dozens of villages in the Ramgarh police station area. There is a strange sense of fear and discomfort in this area”, the journalists write…….”
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