Assessing the effect of rape law reform in India using crime statistics and a survey of recent judgments from the Delhi District Courts the author argues that the legislature has failed systematically to address the many injustices experienced by women who allege rape. The Indian Parliament ...
People participate in a protest against the rape of an 8-year-old girl and a teenager in Mumbai, India, on Sunday. SD-Agencies THE rape and murder of an 8-year-old girl and the separate rape of a teenager have sparked mass protests across India, with levels of public outrage not seen...
India's 200 million Dalits have long faced discrimination and abuse, and campaigners say attacks have increased during the coronavirus pandemic. An average of 87 rape cases were reported every day last year, according to the latest data released Tuesday by the National Crime Records Bureau, but ...
so are the number of women claiming rape on false promises of marriage / Rape on the pretext of marriage. As per the National Crime Records Bureau, an aggregate of 38,947 rape cases were accounted for in India in 2016. In 10,068 cases — about a quarter — the women claimed it was ...
Is this just another rape in India? Did the child's Muslim faith make her a target? HasIslamophobia gone mainstreamin India? To answer these questions, let us put some context to what is happening in Modi's India. India saw about 39,000 rape cases reported in 2016, a 12% jump over ...
Indians often rally for swift justice in a country where a woman is raped every 15 minutes, according to government data, and sentencing is notoriously delayed by backlogged courts. According to the government, police registered 33,658 cases of rape in 2017 – an average of 92 ...
An August 2012 study of 40 judgments of rape cases by district courts in Delhi where the accused were acquitted found that more than half were due to police failure to perform adequate investigations. The study, by the Delhi-based charity Shakti Vahini, cited examples where judges criticized i...
In 2021, a 34-year-old woman in Mumbai died after beingraped and brutally tortured. Large numbers of rapes go unreported due to prevailing stigmas around victims and a lack of faith in police investigations. Convictions remain rare, with cases getting stuck for years in India's clogged-up ...
"Enough is enough," Punjab Chief Justice Arjan Kumar Sikri declared in court as he demanded a full police account of their handling of a "very sordid state of affairs". India's understaffed and overburdened courts can take years to process rape cases, sometimes up to 10 years, according to...
Official data in India show that rape cases have jumped almost 875% over the past 40 years – from 2,487 in 1971 to 24,206 in 2011. But campaigners say this is the tip of the iceberg. Statistics concerning rape and sexual violence tends to be underreported because of stigma and cultura...