In India, rape is the fourth most common crime against women. If one goes by the National Crime Records Bureau statistics, a shocking 93 women are raped in the country each day and a total of 33,707 cases were registered in 2013. Yet at such a time, short skirts, mobile phones and W...
Going by the NCRB statistics, two women are raped in the country every hour. Madhya Pradesh accounted for 14.5 per cent of the total cases (3,010), withWest Bengalfollowing with 2,106 such incidents. Records of high incidence in other states include Uttar Pradesh (1,648),Bihar(1,555) a...
it recently in the Times of London, by a "murderous, hyena-like male contempt" towards women. Leaving aside the blatantly problematic metaphor of Indian men as scavenging animals, Sonia Faleiro's New York Times op-ed lamented that legal measures against rape in India "have been ineffective in...
Going by the NCRB statistics, two women are raped in the country every hour. Madhya Pradesh accounted for 14.5 per cent of the total cases (3,010), with West Bengal following with 2,106 such incidents. Records of high incidence in other states include Uttar Pradesh (1,648), Bihar (1,5...
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 ...
In the wake of the 8 year-old’s murder last year, India passed legislation making the rape of girls under the age of 12 punishable by death. Official statistics show that incidents of rape are increasing in India, although it is unclear how much of the rise is due to more reportin...
A specific law is needed in the country to deal with such cases separately and justly. This study discusses the trauma of rape of minor children, first giving a macrolevel view of sexual abuse, such as rape of minor girls in India and other developing countries, then at the microlevel, ...
In recent times, Rape incidents have increased manifold. According to statistics, two women are raped in the country every hour. If further statistics are to be believed, every 10 hours a girl of age 1-10 is being raped in India.
Effects of education and poverty on the prevalence of girl child marriage in India: A district–level analysis. Children and Youth Services Review, 100, 16–21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2019.02.033 Article Google Scholar Poni, M. (2022, November 3). Gov’t engages traditional...
India saw about 39,000 rape cases reported in 2016, a 12% jump over the prior year, according toIndian crime statistics. Children were reported as victims in 42% of the cases. It is hard to say how many of the rape victims were Muslim. What is known, however, is the exhortation by...