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17 Jun 2013 3 Comments
in Advocacy, Announcements, Human Rights, Justice, Kractivism, Law, Violence against Women, Women Rights Tags: Bangladesh, Delhi, Friday, Indo-Asian News Service, Police officer, Police station, Suicide, Vasant Kunj
14 Jun 2013 3 Comments
in Advocacy, Health Care, Human Rights, Justice, Kractivism, Law, Violence against Women, Women Rights Tags: Delhi, Delhi Police, India, Indo-Asian News Service, New Delhi, Rape, Types of rape, Uttar Pradesh
A 14-year-old girl was kidnapped and gang-raped by two people in Uttar Pradesh‘s Badaun, police said Thursday. The girl has been rescued and one of the rapists arrested.
The girl went missing from her house at Neb Sarai area since June 5.
Delhi Police managed to rescue her from a house in Badaun area, six days after she made a call to her parents and informed them about her ordeal.
“A team of Delhi Police was sent to area and she was rescued June 12. One person identified as Jarib Ahmad, 28, has been arrested while his relative is on run,” an officer told IANS.
The absconding person, who was known to the girl, had lured her to his native place, and he and Jarib took turns to rape her, the girl told police in her complaint.
13 Jun 2013 8 Comments
in Advocacy, Announcements, Human Rights, Justice, Kractivism, Law, Violence against Women, Women Rights Tags: Bengal, Indian Penal Code, Indo-Asian News Service, Kolkata, Madhya Pradesh, Mamata Banerjee, National Crime Records Bureau, West Bengal
Edited by Surabhi Malik (With Inputs from IANS) | Updated: June 13, 2013
The protesters, led by Maitree which is an umbrella organisation of women activists, also wanted to meet Mamata to seek her response to a report released by the National Bureau of Crime Records which says West Bengal has the maximum number of crimes against women in the country.
Unable to meet Mamata, the activists left an “open letter” for her asking her why she had not spoken about the two recent and brutal rape and murder cases in the state.
The two incidents happened in quick succession and left Kolkata shocked. Last Friday, at Kamdoni village about 25 km from Kolkata, a 20-year-old college girl was brutally raped and murdered by six men. Three days later, a 13-year-old school student met the same fate at Gede in Nadia district.
The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) says Bengal recorded the highest number of crimes against women for the second year in a row in 2012. The state government however contested the data, claiming its disclaimers were not published.
According to NCRB, Bengal recorded 30,942 cases of crime against women in 2012 – of which 2,046 were rapes, 4,168 kidnapping, 593 dowry deaths and 19,865 cases of cruelty by husband or relatives.
But state Director General of Police Naparajit Mukherjee said rape cases had come down “considerably” in 2012. He attributed the hike in crimes against women to cases registered under Section 498 A of the Indian Penal Code, related to cruelty towards a woman by her husband or his relatives.
In 2012, West Bengal recorded 2,046 cases of rape – lower only than Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. In 2011, the state had recorded 29,133 cases of crime against women, 2,317 of these were rapes.
31 May 2013 2 Comments
in Advocacy, Announcements, Human Rights, Justice, Kractivism, Law, Violence against Women, Women Rights Tags: Detention (imprisonment), Dowry, Harassment, India, Indo-Asian News Service, Rajesh Sharma, Suraj Chaudhary, Varsha Tomar
He was presented in the court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (ACJM) Rajesh Sharma.
He was sent to police custody for one day.
“We are interrogating accused for recovery of jewellry and other valuables given at the time of marriage by victim’s parents,” investigation officer Balwan Singh Gulia told IANS.
A case of dowry harassment, criminal intimidation and criminal breach of trust was registered against Tomar’s husband, Suraj Chaudhary and her mother-in-law, Tushtata Chaudhary, was registered Wednesday at DLF City Phase I police station.
Tomar, won several gold and silver medals in national and international shooting events, said in her complaint that she was not allowed to go for practice sessions
Tomar married Chaudhary, a native of Uttar Pradesh and a Noida-based lawyer, in December 2011.
At the time of marriage, the first information report FIR said, Tomar’s in-laws promised her that she could pursue her shooting career but they stopped her from stepping out of the house.
Suraj lives with his brother in Noida and his accused mother is living at their ancestral village in Shyamli district of Uttar Pradesh.
According to police, complainant Varsha Tomar is living in Value Estate here on Gurgaon-Faridabad road.
02 May 2013 Leave a comment
in Advocacy, Announcements, Health Care, Human Rights, Justice, Kractivism, Law Tags: Brajesh Pathak, Clinical trial, Committee, India, Indian Standard Time, Indo-Asian News Service, Member of parliament, New Delhi
Thirty-three new drugs were granted approval by the health ministry without clinical trials on Indian patients between January 2008 and October 2010, a parliamentary panel has found.
It a report tabled in parliament last week, the panel headed by parliament member Brajesh Pathak said: “This is yet another instance where the ministry, inspite of appreciating the serious problem the continued marketing of these 33 drugs may pose to Indian patients, has chosen to take no action to resolve it”.
The panel criticised the union health ministry for its “inaction” on certain alleged irregularities in clinical trials of drugs before their introduction in the country.
It also charged the officials involved in granting approval to these drugs with violation of law and “an intention to save the guilty”.
“The committee is shocked to note this dilly-dallying by the ministry on the matter, which could be affecting lives of lakhs of people in the country, who are consuming these drugs,” it said.
“The ministry agrees with the committee’s viewpoint about review of approvals to ensure safety of patients, fair play, transparency and accountability but instead of taking strict and immediate action in all proven cases of delinquency and omission and commission, it still continues to be in a state of profound procrastination,” the parliamentary standing committee on health and family welfare said in its 66th report.
It said that even after a lapse of more than seven months the three-member expert panel looking into this contentious matter has come out with “virtually nothing concrete” and observed that the government “intends to delay a decision by referring it to yet another committee”.
“These tactics have been, as stated at several places in this report, resorted to by the government to delay indefinitely the decisions and consequent actions that would be required to be taken against several officials and non-officials who have indulged in rampant acts of omission and commission while approving these drugs in gross violation of the law of the land.”
The committee has taken strong objections to these “dilatory tactics” and recommended immediate decision on these “proven gross violations, lest the health of the people is compromised irrevocably.”
—Indo-Asian News Service spc/ros/vt
30 Apr 2013 1 Comment
in Advocacy, Announcements, Health Care, Justice, Law Tags: Confectionery, Food Safety, Himachal Pradesh, IANS, India, Indo-Asian News Service, Municipal Corporation, Shimla
IANS – Fri 26 Apr, 2013
Shimla, April 26 (IANS) A sweetmeat seller was fined Rs.one lakh, the highest ever penalty in the state, by a designated officer for selling sweets that failed to comply with the Food Safety and Standards Act of 2006, an official said Friday.
Shimla Municipal Corporation health official Omesh Bharti fined the shopkeeper Thursday, after the samples of the sweets seized from his shop were found to be adulterated.
Government sources said the state government had recently delegated powers to all health officers under the food safety act to impose fines on vendors if food samples failed to meet standards set by law.
21 Apr 2013 1 Comment
in Advocacy, Announcements, Health Care, Human Rights, Justice, Kractivism, Law, Violence against Women, Women Rights Tags: Edgware, Hertfordshire Constabulary, Hyderabad India, India, Indo-Asian News Service, London, Scotland Yard, St John's Wood
Indo-Asian News Service | Updated: April 20, 2013
The woman was handed back to the man, and she was again attacked and threatened that she would be buried in the back garden of the man’s luxury home for ruining his family name.
The woman was passed between the families, kept like a prisoner, given virtually no money and had her passport confiscated, the report said.
However, when she fled, her pleas went ignored by police and other organisations on at least 12 occasions, according to court documents.
The woman’s ordeal ended only after she was taken in by a migrant workers’ charity and human rights’ group Liberty took up her case.
“Various state agencies failed her, ignoring her repeated pleas for help, not adhering to their own investigative practice and it could be said ignoring the obvious,” Caroline Haughey, counsel for the prosecution, told the Croydon crown court.
The woman came to Britain in 2005 to try to make a better life and to send money to her family in India’s Hyderabad city.
When she sought help, she was threatened by her keepers. In one case, a professional interpreter told police that the woman was “telling a lot of lies – it’s common in her country”, the court heard.
She was first taken to hospital in 2006 with a gashed foot after her “employer” named Shamina Yousuf, 33, hurled a cup at her.
However, no action was taken after she was bullied her into not pursuing matters, the report said.
The woman fled after more than two years but returned to work for other relatives of the family to try to secure the return of her passport.
The court heard that the woman stayed in a one-room flat in St John’s Wood, and was raped by a butcher, Enkarta Balapovi, on several occasions.
The woman finally moved to the home of an acquaintance, Shashi Obhrai and her IT consultant husband Balram, who lived in Middlesex. She was forced to work seven days a week, 17-hours-a-day, cooking and cleaning for eight family members.
She escaped and her case was passed to Scotland Yard’s trafficking unit.
Obhrai, 54, of Moor Park, Middlesex and Yousuf, 33, of Edgware, north London, have been convicted of assault. Obhrai, an optician, was additionally convicted of threats to kill.
Balapovi, 54, of St John’s Wood, northwest London, was convicted of rape.
They will be sentenced next month. Two other defendants were acquitted.
The victim, who was not named for legal reasons, has been left in a wheelchair in part because of the injuries sustained at the hands of her abusers.
19 Apr 2013 3 Comments
in Advocacy, Announcements, Human Rights, Justice, Kractivism, Law, Violence against Women, Women Rights Tags: Aam Aadmi Party, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, Delhi Police, Friday, India, Indo-Asian News Service, Sheila Dikshit
IANS | Apr 19, 2013,
“Upon examination, we found a 200 ml bottle and two or three pieces of candle inserted into her private parts. This is the first time that I have seen such barbarism with a five-year-old,” RK Bansal, medical superintendent, Swami Dayanand Hospital, told reporters.
“There were injuries on her lips and cheeks and bruise marks on her neck, suggesting that attempts were made to strangle her. The blood pressure was way below normal, and she had fever when she was admitted,” the doctor said.
“The child’s condition is very critical. She is in ICU right now and will be under observation for the next 24-48 hours,” he said.
The girl was abducted on April 15 and kept hostage for two days without food and water in a flat owned by the attacker, said to be in his 30s. He lived on the ground floor of the building in east Delhi’s Gandhi Nagar, in which the victim’s family also stayed, police said.
The girl, who was raped repeatedly, was rescued when members of her family heard her screams on Wednesday evening, police said.
Meanwhile, family, neighbours and activists of the Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) on Friday protested outside the hospital where she was admitted in a serious condition.
Protestors gathered outside the Swami Dayanand Hospital in Shahdara, east Delhi and raised slogans against Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit and Delhi Police.
They demanded immediate arrest of the accused in the case and said the girl should be shifted to a better hospital like the All India Institute of Medical Sciences ( AIIMS).
“The police tried to suppress the matter and even offered Rs 2,000 to the family to keep quiet. On top of that, the child was admitted to a hospital which does not even have proper facilities and equipment,” AAP spokesperson Aswathi Muralidharan said.
“We want a better hospital and immediate arrest of the accused,” she said.
The girl’s father told reporters that he had earlier approached the police with a complaint that his daughter was missing, but they failed to register his complaint.
18 Apr 2013 Leave a comment
in Advocacy, Announcements, Human Rights, Justice, Kractivism, Law, Minority Rights, Violence against Women, Women Rights Tags: Indian Standard Time, Indo-Asian News Service, Ludhiana, Madhya Pradesh, Police officer, Punjab, Punjab Police, Rape, Tarn Taran, Tarn Taran district, Types of rape, Woman
IANS | Apr 17, 2013, 04.00 PM IST
The victim filed a complaint, leading police in Ludhiana to register a case and launch a hunt to arrest the accused.
Police officials said the woman had gone to meet the accused and demanded that they return the Rs 20,000 that they owed her. She insisted that her money be refunded. At this, the men assaulted her with iron rods and sticks.
Though there were other people present on the spot, none came to the rescue of the helpless woman.
An elderly man and another woman seen in the video trying to stop the men were also attacked and shooed away.
The victim was not only beaten but pushed to the ground and thrashed even as she cried for help.
“We have identified the men involved in this crime. We will arrest them soon,” a police officer said.