Should Prostitution be Legalized?, Lawyers Update, 01/02/2010 On December 9, 2009 a Supreme Court Bench comprising Justices Dalveer Bhandari and AK Patnaik while hearing a PIL filed by an NGO, Bachpan Bachao Andolan, complaining about large-scale child trafficking in the country and seeking directives to contain it, asked the Solicitor-General of India, More..
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Rape that shamed Delhi, Hindustan Times, 18/01/2010 Punjabi looking.
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Rape that shamed Delhi, Hindustan Times, 17/01/2010 These are the jottings made seven years ago by a Delhi Police investigator, who still carries his case diary with him.
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Lending a shoulder when it matters most, Times Of India, 10/01/2010 The Ruchika Girhotra case could have taken a different turn if the 14-year-old victim of molestation had had a clinical psychologist to offer her succor. More..
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What makes Delhiites kill?, Hindustan Times, 10/01/2010 A man murdered his neighbour for kicking his dog at Ranhola village in Outer Delhi. Another was killed for breaking the queue at a public toilet in Civil Lines, north Delhi. More..
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'Over 85% sexual assault victims' families threatened', Times Of India, 01/01/2010 It wasn't just Ruchika Girhotra's family who were intimidated for filing complaints. Interviews of NCR-based families of other sexual assault victims reveal that over 85% of them were regularly threatened when they filed complaints. More..
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A ray of hope for harassed women, Hindustan Times, 01/01/2010 The Law Ministry’s move to make molestation a non-bailable and cognisable offence — increasing the maximum imprisonment for the crime from two to five years — in wake of the Ruchika Girhotra case will surely help women seeking justice for an offence “as traumatic as rape.”
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Debunking myths about rape and rapists, Times Of India, 06/12/2009 Every night I would cry and cry and sleep with a sheet over my head...he was 19, like a son to my parents...he touched me when I was nine...he looked at me devilishly...the physical pain was so much, I blacked out.” That's the heart-rending account of a young woman who was raped at nine.
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SINHA'S PORTRAIT - `Incapable of a normal relationship' , Hindustan Times, 28/10/2009 He managed to top entrance exams to the country's best academic institutes, but if Delhi Police are to be believed, he wasn't able to win over his wife.
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Brush with art helps kids get over blast trauma, Times Of India, 20/10/2009 A year on, they have learnt to smile again, understand that the incident need not forever mark their lives. And importantly, they've learnt to express with their hands, mucking around with Plaster-of-Paris (PoP) and paint.
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Hoax calls are on the rise, Hindustan Times, 09/09/2009 Some Delhiites certainly enjoy setting off false alarms. In 2007, 3,835 hoax alerts were recorded by Delhi Police. A year later, the number went up to 5,806.
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Hannah Montana: Dreamgirl uninterrupted, Times Of India, 09/08/2009 She is a schoolgirl by day, rock star by night -- on television. But for millions of tweens across the world, she is much more: style icon, role model, diva, fountainhead of the universe. Hannah Montana rules.
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Social rift fuelling violence , The Hindu, 08/08/2009 Recent incidents of kidnapping for ransom and murders involving persons known to the victims have raised serious concerns over the breakdown of human bonding and relationships in urban societies. More..
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Death sentence upheld Man had killed his two nephews, The Hindu, 07/08/2009 NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has upheld the death sentence awarded to a 37-year-old man for killing two children of his brother-in-law to take revenge “for not being extended financial aid by the father of the two unfortunate victims” at Subhash Nagar in West Delhi in 2003.
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Mental illness is a curse she lives with every day, Times Of India, 26/07/2009 For decades, India has locked the mentally challenged away in institutions. Locked up and forgotten. The indifference extends to the most shocking cases that make the news. There is no outcry when a 19-year-old mentally challenged girl is raped by those who were meant to watch over her. More..
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Mind of a rapist , India Today, 25/06/2009 Every day the headlines unleash a new horror. On June 12, three boys take turns at raping a Class XII girl in the backseat of a moving car in Surat and record the act for perversity on their phones. Two days later, More..
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Couple trouble when one omits to commit, The Asian Age, 08/04/2009 Apart from the fame, paparazzi and fan-following, actors Salman, Saif and Brad Pitt, now have another thread binding them together — they all have slightly more famous better halves in Kareena, Katrina and Angelina Jolie, respectively; and while their ladies wish to live life sans any boundaries, the boys in question expect full commitment from the More..
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Rural sisterhood forms rings of steel for victims of rape, Times Of India, 29/03/2009 No institution assures them justice, no organization fights for their rights and no counsellor helps them pick up the pieces of their lives. But the initial findings of a nationwide study reveal that rural victims of sexual abuse are beginning to fight back in their own way.
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Incest, murder, rape: Why are we hooked on horror?, Times Of India, 22/03/2009 The trial of 74-year-old Austrian building engineer Josef Fritzl, who locked his daughter in a ratinfested dungeon for 24 years and fathered seven children by her, is behind us, but it will be years before the case is closed in public memory. There has been intense global interest in the horrors perpetrated by the “monster of Amstetten”, More..
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Accounting for missing kids Law & order , The Hindu, 07/03/2009 Following the recent public hue and cry over children going missing from different parts of the Capital, the Delhi police have finally set up a dedicated helpline number for such cases. However, the decision appears to be more of a knee-jerk reaction More..
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Shell shocked, Hindustan Times, 05/02/2009 Shell shockedCrowds set Nanhe Paswan’s heart racing. Loud reports leave the 36-year-old gardener startled and agitated. The Chhattarpur resident is a victim of last year’s blast in the crowded Mehrauli market.
On September 27, a bomb had gone off hardly
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2008 was safest for women in years, Hindustan Times, 02/01/2009 There was a significant decrease in cases of rape and molestation
Going by the latest crime figures released by Delhi Police on Friday, the city is finally becoming safer for women.
The police’s annual report shows a 22 per cent drop in rape cases in
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Tree of hope in Delhi blast , Times Of India, 01/01/2009 Tree of hope in Delhi blast
NEW DELHI: A giant peepal tree in Karol Bagh, struck by shrapnel during the September 15 bomb blast, has become a symbol of strength and More..
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18% rape cases false: Study, Times Of India, 29/12/2008 NEW DELHI: A little less than 20% of sexual-assault cases reported in and around Delhi are false, shows a five-year study. In almost every fifth incident, or, in 18.3 % cases to be precise More..
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Four years of torture, no complaint, Times Of India, 22/10/2007 NEW DELHI: Women victims of domestic violence endure torture and abuse for an average 4.2 years before filing a complaint with the police. An overwhelming 78% of such victims say they faced physically aggressive behaviour in front of in-laws, children and in public. More..
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There's no excuse for use of torture, Times Of India, 11/01/2009 The incident caused shock even in the badlands of west-central UP. On December 24, 2007, when state PWD engineer M K Gupta refused to pay the money demanded by a bunch of goons allegedly led by BSP legislator Shekhar Tiwari, he was beaten with a baton, subjected to electric shocks and eventually died as a result of his ordeal. In Mumbai, the bodies More..
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Recruits made to feel shame, Times Of India, 30/11/2008 The Mumbai terrorist attack is over but the question remains: what turns ordinary human beings into vicious killing machines? A clinical psychologist, who has interacted with a number of terrorists professionally, says that More..
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Talking terror, Times Of India, 30/11/2008 Shreya Ganju sounded serious when she told a friend at school: “Pata hai, atankvadi ne bahut logon ko goli se maara aur bomb bhi phenka,” she said, with the innocence and awe that only a five-year-old can invest in her grisly description of terrorists killing people More..
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Screams of victims spurred killer Dass, Times Of India, 30/10/2008 NEW DELHI: He raped a teenage girl, killed her four-year-old brother and carried the girl's gold ring as a memento. Sanjay Dass, sentenced to death by a Delhi court last week, was "a psychopath'' who even went back More..
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Terror gets a female face, Times Of India, 09/11/2008 Has the arrest of sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur in connection with the September 29 blast in Malegaon put India in the league of Israel, Palestine, Iraq and Sri Lanka, where the woman terrorist is a familiar entity?
Thakur is yet to be proved
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Tackling post-terror trauma Law & order , The Hindu, 24/01/2009 The trauma that victims of terror strikes are subjected to is too immense to be felt by others. The suffering becomes unbearable especially for those who lose their near and dear ones or get seriously injured in the attacks, and it leads to complicated More..
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KP children share trauma of exodus, Excelsior Correspondent, 20/11/2008 JAMMU, Nov 20: Swanchetan Society for Mental Health, Delhi and Youth Wing All India Kashmiri Samaj (YWAIKS) organized a workshop here at TRT Butanagar today.
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