142.3% Rise In Robberies In City, 63.5% Spike In State V Narayan TNN Mumbai has gained the dubious distinction of being the secondmost crime-prone city in India, if one goes by the number of cases registered under the Indian Penal… Continue Reading →
Pranjal Baruah, TNN | Jun 15, 2013, Surprisingly, the NCRB did not record a single case of police custodial death in Assam in 2011. GUWAHATI: In a major embarrassment for the state, the National Crime Records Bureau(NCRB) figures for last year… Continue Reading →
Dwaipayan Ghosh, TNN | Jun 14, 2013, 01.39 AM IST The number of rapes in the capital last year (706) was more than those reported in four other metros – Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore and Chennai (484) – put together. NEW DELHI: Delhi‘s… Continue Reading →
Vol – XLVIII No. 13, March 30, 2013 | Vasundhara Sirnate “Just being a woman is an act of courage”, said the tagline to the 1979 film adaptation of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar. One can modify that somewhat to suit the Indian… Continue Reading →
TNN | Feb 5, 2013, 01.14 AM IST NEW DELHI: Sensing that the Ordinance prescribing harsher punishment for offenders is not enough to prevent crime against women, the government on Monday unveiled 27 measures like setting up crisis response centres in 100… Continue Reading →
INDIA, Posted on Dec 19, 2012 IBNLive.com New Delhi: Women’s rights activists and judicial experts have long demanded fast-track court processes and quick convictions in cases of rape to tackle the problem. Their demand seems justified in the light of the… Continue Reading →
‘46K crimes on women in three years’ Vaibhav Ganjapure TNN Nagpur: The issue of crimes against women was raised in the state legislature on Wednesday. Asking a questions in the council, MLC Mohan Joshi said Maharashtra witnessed 46,513 crimes… Continue Reading →
November 12, 2012 Once again, the country’s judiciary has underlined the fact that there is something fundamentally wrong with the police in India. On 7 November, the Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court, Justice Vikramajit Sen, while hearing a case… Continue Reading →
MAHIM PRATAP SINGH, The Hindu In the State that leads in incidents of rape, the shame-inducing statistics are pushing the administration into action Time was when Payal (name changed to protect her identity), a standard VII student from Madhya Pradesh’s… Continue Reading →
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