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problem. "This has three vital components. First of all there will be a change in the defination of rape. Uptill now the defination of rape laid emphasis on peneteration but what happens if a minor or a seventy five year old is raped. Secondly the punishment needs to be made more stringent specially in the case of gang rapes. Thirdly there have to be several schemes for rehabilitation for the victims. We would also be stressing on awareness and role of the civil society and police also" said Vyas. She added that it was time to punish the perverts who committed the act on the minors and got scot free. As regard the flouting of the PNDT (Pre Natal Diagnostic Test Act) NCW Chairperson said the only if the conviction rates were high any difference could be expected. " The technology has advanced so much that there are several ways in which the sex of the child can be known before its birth. The lienses of the centres where these actvities are being carried out should be cancelled and work should also be focussed at the district levels" said Vyas. (Pioneer, 01/02/2011) 80-year-old man, son get life sentence for dowry killing An 80-year-old man and his son were today sentenced to rigorous life imprisonment for killing his daughter-in-law for dowry in 2004.The District and Sessions Judge convicted Labh Singh, father-in-law of Jaswinder Kaur, and her husband Jaswant Singh of murder. The prosecution claimed that Jaswinder, a mother of three, was murdered on the night of October 17, 2004 and her body was found the next day buried under debris in a field. The police inquiry found that the woman was harassed for dowry. Police said Jaswant Singh attacked Jaswinder Kaur with a sword following a quarrel. Labh Singh also hit the woman with a rod that resulted in the death of Jaswinder.Later, the accused told the police that Jaswinder had been kidnapped by some people who had come in a car. But when the police reached the scene, they recovered the her body from a nearby field. The police said that they had recovered the sword and the rod used in the murder. During the hearing, the woman's father Mohan Singh alleged that her in-laws had demanded Rs 50,000 from them.After hearing arguments, the court today awarded life sentence to father and son under Aection 302/ 34 of the IPC.The court also slapped a fine of Rs 5,000 each on the two. (Deccan herald, 01/02/2011) Newly wed girl set ablaze KANPUR: A newly-wed girl was allegedly set ablaze in front of her minor sibling here on late Sunday night by her husband and in-laws under the Kotwali police station limits in Unnao district over dowry demands. Police registered a complaint against in-laws under Section 302 of Indian Penal Code in this regard. The brutal incident took place at the Nasirkheda village in the district, when Kailash, who had married Seema (20) daughter of Raj Kumar of Bandhukheda in Achalganj about a year ago, tried to get rid of her after the latter's parents failed to fullfill his dowry demands, the parents alleged. The accused, Kailash, aided by his family members allegedly brutally tortured his wife Seema on late Sunday night. Later, the accused and his family members set her ablaze in front of her minor sister Lakshmi, the victim's kin added. According to a complaint lodged by Seema's parents, Kailash, his brother and mother killed her. They have accused them of beating her till she became unconscious and then setting her on fire for dowry late on Sunday night. "They have murdered Seema for motorbike, a gold chain and cash," claimed Raj Kumar, father of the deceased. "Seema's in-laws were dowry greedy. Their lust for money killed her. Since her marriage they have been demanding cash and jewellery. We had given them enough dowry and huge amounts money," he said. "Only a week ago, her sister Lakshmi had gone to meet her, she witnessed the gruesome incident late on Sunday night. Kailash's brothers had also harassed Seema for dowry," he said. Meanwhile, the police have launched a manhunt for Kailash and his family members, who are absconding. "We have registered an FIR against her husband and in-laws. The accused will be arrested soon. A case has been registered in this regard at the Kotwali police station," said circle officer Brijesh Mishra. (TOI, 01/02/2011) Woman jumps from train to escape molester A 23-year-old woman was injured seriously after she jumped from a running train on Tuesday night to escape a molestation bid. The police are investigating whether she was thrown out of the Ernakulam- Shoranur passenger train by the molester. They suspect that he also jumped from the train and then raped her. The woman was found in an unconscious state near the track at Vettikkattiri near Cheruthururthy at 9.30 p.m., after the guard informed the Railway Police. She was rushed to the Thrissur Medical College Hospital by a police escort vehicle of Kerala Revenue Minister K.P. Rajendran and was admitted to the ICU. Her condition remains serious, hospital sources said. The woman was put on
ventilator. She suffered head injuries, a fractured skull, and bleeding in the brain. Most of her injuries were in the face and hand, and this could be because she was thrown out of the train. Normally, when a person jumps from a moving train, the injuries are in the legs, hospital sources said. According to the police, her compartment was near empty; usually, the women's compartment is almost empty after the train leaves Thrissur, and there were no guards or policemen in the coach. The police are searching for a physically challenged person who got into the train at the Vallathole Nagar station. The woman, who works in a private firm in Kochi, was on her way home near Shoranur in connection with a marriage proposal. (Hindu, 03/02/2011) SC expunges HC remarks against lady judicial officer The Supreme Court has quashed the Allahabad High Court's critical remarks against a lady magistrate despite her acting fairly in a complaint of alleged rape of a daughter-in-law by the father-in-law. The victim had moved the Judicial Magistrate in Saharanpur Mona Panwar through an application under Section 156(3)of the CrPC for registration of a rape case against her father-in-law Irshad. The victim claimed she was forced to move the court as neither the local police nor the SSP Sahranpur was willing to register the complaint. However, after making an inquiry through the police the lady magistrate decided to register her application as a complaint under Section 200 of the Code by which it was decided to record her statements along with other witnesses in the court. The police had submitted a report to the magistrate that the complaint was concocted and the so-called victim was a divorcee who was actually staying with her parents at the time of the alleged incident. However, the woman filed an appeal in the High Court challenging the magistrate's decision. A single judge quashed the magistrate's order and made the disparaging remarks that despite being a lady magistrate she did not apply her mind properly to the case in which a woman had alleged she was raped by her own father-in-law. He also commented that the order passed by the magistrate on August 1, 2009, was a blemish on justice meted out to a married lady who was ravished by her own father-in-law and asked her to be careful in future while passing such orders. Aggrieved, Mona appealed in the apex court.Upholding the magistrate's plea, a bench of justices J M Panchal and H L Gokhale said Mona had rightly exercised judicial discretion available to her and it was wrong on the part of the single judge to make such remarks against her. "There was no occasion for the learned single judge to observe that the appellant, a judicial magistrate, had done the gravest injustice to the victim or that though the appellant is a lady magistrate, yet, she did not think about the outcome of ravishing the chastity of daughter-in-law by her father-in-law or the seriousness of the crime committed by the accused," Justice J M Panchal writing the judgement said. The apex court said the records indicated that Mona had discharged her judicial duties to the best of her capacity. "To err is human. It is often said that a judge, who has not committed an error, is yet to be born. This dictum applies to all the learned judges at all levels from the lowest to the highest."The difference in views of the higher and the lower courts is purely a result of a difference in approach and perception. But merely because there is difference in views, it does not necessarily establish that the lower courts are necessarily wrong and the higher courts are always right," the bench said. The apex court recalled that in several of its earlier decisions it had emphasized the need to adopt utmost judicial restraint against making disparaging remarks so far as members of the lower judiciary was concerned.Accordingly, it expunged the remarks against the woman judicial officer and quashed the judgement passed by the High Court. (Deccan herald, 03/02/2011) Ahmebabad murder convict narrates her tale of torment “Who is responsible for the dearth of good people in our society? The society will turn a good person bad but will never allow a bad person to return to the good path,” said Farheen Pathan, 28, the widow convicted by a court for the gruesome murder of her lover. The woman who chopped her lover's body into several pieces before trying to dump it in the Sabarmati has not had an easy life. She recounted her tale in an article in Kasturba Ni Kotadiye Thi- a magazine published by Jaswant Thakar Memorial Foundation. Her brown eyes and beautiful face fail to tell the story of her struggle but she is very vociferous about it.Farheen, a widow said her trials began after she lost her husband. Following her husband's death she and her two children were driven out of their home by the in-laws and Farheen was forced to take shelter at her parent's house. Apparently her brothers too did not help her. Her article in the magazine shows the pitiable condition of widows in our society. The article makes a mention of how widows find it difficult to make a living in a society which sees them as easy game. 'This society of ours is quick to point fingers. But does anybody know that I struggled to live after being abandoned by my in-laws following the death of
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MUMBAI: Rural Maharashtra seems to
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these districts. Cradle baby centre
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Volunteers, in fact, donned white T
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Rs.50,000 (earlier Rs.22,200) would
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Haveli, Daman and Diu, Lakshadweep
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of the officers listen to the griev
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NEW DELHI: A 68-year-old woman has
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Create awareness on guidelines to p
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AMBALA: Afraid of being harassed by
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VISAKHAPATNAM, September 10, 2011:
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provide them is dignified death. At
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preference for the male child. Glob
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ecovered from Singh, confirmed a se
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material would be distributed in ar
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inheriting land is not really an op
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would encourage women to join the w
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More Indian women prone to anaemia:
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ensure that victims, who do not get
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'Need to eradicate caste, dowry sys
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Only sustained vigilance on the par
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the safety and security of girls an
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Comprehensive Information, Educatio
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directed the Naubasta police to lod
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