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Child Marriage and related laws in Bharat – Part 1
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Child marriage is a favourite subject for activists who like to label Bharat as misogynistic, regressive, backward, and patriarchal. Generally, the Hindu society is...
One case of grooming jihad, one of sexual assault reported from Baghpat, UP
Hindu girls and women continue to be targeted in Western UP as demonstrated by two new cases reported from Baghpat. A young girl was lured...
Walayar rape and murder victims’ mother decides to contest against Pinarayi Vijayan
A Hindu Dalit lady called Bhagyavathi is contesting against Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan from Dharmadam in the Kannur district of Kerala. She is the...
Contractor Mohammad Feroz rapes and impregnates a minor migrant Hindu girl
A case was filed in the Kharar Police Station in Mohali near Chandigarh against one building construction contractor named Mohammad Feroz for raping a...
“Groping is an offence. Groping over clothes is an offence!”
The recent controversial Bombay High Court Order on ‘skin to skin’ groping in POCSO raises several problematic questions on the rights of children to a life free of coercive violations of their bodily integrity and safety
Pressing breasts of minor ‘without skin to skin contact’ not sexual assault under POCSO, rules Bombay HC
In yet another judgement which raises huge question marks over the functioning of judiciary in the country, the Bombay High Court has ruled that...