India's Biggest Nationwide Student Protest in a Quarter Century spread across University Campuses :

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abey ch@ddi wali sarkar. .....kisi ma behn ko chora hai ...kay sub ka kaam tamam kerdiya hai ??

Is this your culture ?? ...selling your wives ??[hilar][hilar]

[h=1]Indian Man forces wife to be gang-raped for 12 years[/h][h=1][/h][h=1][/h]TNN | Sep 7, 2013, 11.48 AM IST








BHOPAL: This is a sordid tale of sexual exploitation of a woman by her husband, who forced her to be repeatedly gang-raped by his bosses for a promotion at the workplace.

Her monster husband, Bhupendra Nimade, put her on the torture wrack for 12 years, snuffing out all vestige of resistance by forcing her to swallow sleeping pills that turned her into a veritable vegetable. The woman, [COLOR=#0000FF !important]a resident of Khargone, finally picked up the courage to lodge a case with [COLOR=#0000FF !important]the Habibganj police station. The FIR was lodged on Friday.

She was gang-raped by four people, even forced to perform unnatural sex. And, all this for a promotion and posting in the state capital by her husband, a bank employee.

She was able to come out of the hellhole existence with the help of a social organization, which approached [COLOR=#0000FF !important]the Habibganj police[/COLOR].

She said her husband had declared her insane in front of relatives even as she sank into depression. He also threatened to throw their daughters into flesh trade if she resisted.

A case of gang rape was lodge against the husband and six others. The 35-year-old rape survivor hails from Barwani and was married to [COLOR=#0000FF !important]Nimade[/COLOR] in Khargone in 2000. He worked as a peon at [COLOR=#0000FF !important]Apex Bank[/COLOR].

The ordeal began when her husband started beating her and allowed his friends, Nirmal and Yogesh to rape her at Khargone.

Her husband would lace her milk with sleeping pills and also inject her with sedatives till she would lose consciousness.

Whenever she resisted, her husband would threaten to kill her children. In 2012, her husband came in contact with Apex Bank's legal advisor, Om Patidar and his associates Shivpal, Sunil and Ajay, all employees of the same bank.

"Nimade assured Patidar and his aides that if they promoted him and got him transferred to Bhopal, he would force me to have sex with them. Later, Patidar promoted my husband as general assistant, a post above peon, and was transferred to Bhopal. He was also allotted a quarter in bank's residential premises at Arera Colony where we shifted in June 2013. Besides, her husband was offered a plot for free by Patidar", the woman said.

As per the deal, Patidar and his associates raped her on several occasions. The woman also suspects that her kids too were sexually exploited. But the children could never muster the courage to speak against their father, she said.



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Rights for women in Pakistan are bleak. The nation still remains without a domestic violence law, pending objections from a hardline religious party. — Photo by AFP

ISLAMABAD: A woman was forcibly paraded naked through a village after her sons were accused of sleeping with a married neighbour who became pregnant, police said Tuesday.
The incident happened after neighbour Mohammad Salman grew suspicious that the woman's sons slept with his wife in Neelor Bala village, 100 kilometres north of Islamabad, said police official Akhtar Nawaz.
Enraged Salman and his brothers went to confront the suspects, who were identified only as Rashid and Kazim, but they had fled, leaving behind their mother, Nawaz said.
“They dragged her out, tore up her clothes and forced her to walk naked on the street,” the police official said.
“No one has come to lodge a formal complaint. Police registered a case themselves after receiving reports from local residents,” he told AFP.
An investigation is underway and two people have been taken into custody for questioning, he said.
Police investigation officer Shabbir Hussain Shah said the statement of the woman, who is aged about 50, had been recorded.
Salman, who works in Lahore, believed that one of the brothers had got his wife pregnant while he was away from home, Shah said.
Rights for women in Pakistan are bleak. The nation still remains without a domestic violence law, pending objections from a hardline religious party.







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[h=1]India has 40% of world’s child brides, survey finds[/h][h=1][/h][h=1][/h]Himanshi Dhawan, TNN | Sep 9, 2013, 05.21 AM IST

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[COLOR=#0000FF !important]File picture of relatives performing child marriage of a girl (studying in Class VI) with a boy (studying in Class IX) at Gaya in Bihar. (TOI photo by Manish Bhandari)







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NEW DELHI: Jhumki's (name changed) red and white sakha-pola (wedding bangles) and sindoor jar sharply with her starched uniform. She was forced by her father to marry when she was barely 11 but she feels lucky to be allowed to attend school.

Forty-six per cent of women (between the ages of 18 and 29) in India were married before the age of 18, according to the National Family Health Survey-3. It is estimated that there are 23 million child brides in the country, around 40% of child brides globally. Global human rights NGO Breakthrough, working in [COLOR=#0000FF !important]districts of Hazaribagh and Gaya (in Bihar) and Ranchi in [COLOR=#0000FF !important]Jharkhand[/COLOR] found that over 60% of women between the ages of 20-24 were married before 18.

Breakthrough, which launched its 'Nation Against [COLOR=#0000FF !important]Early Marriage' campaign[/COLOR] in Ranchi recently, has so far reached 35,000 women and expects to expand the campaign nationwide and target 100,000 women in the coming months. The NGO — which had spearheaded the successful 'bell bajao' campaign against domestic violence — hopes to change the culture that drives and perpetuates early marriage to replace it with one where the lives, rights and personhood of girls is valued. Worldwide, 60 million girls become child brides every year, of which around 30 million belong to South Asia alone.

'140 million child brides by 2020 likely'

According to [COLOR=#0000FF !important]the United Nations Population Fund[/COLOR] (UNFPA), if the trends continue between 2011 and 2020, more than 140 million girls will become child brides, of which at least 18.5 million will be under the age of 15.

Breakthrough vice-president Sonali Khan said, "This issue came up when we were working with communities in Bihar and Jharkhand. Under-age girls are incapable of negotiating domestic violence, are deprived of early health and reproductive rights. This later has implications on child and maternal mortality."

According to the NGO's data, the trend is worse in rural areas. In Jharkhand, 71% of girls in rural areas were married before 18 years compared to 33% in urban areas. In Bihar, 65.2% of girls were married before 18 years compared to 37% in urban areas.

Breakthrough is working with communities where the average age of marriage ranges between 15.1 and 16.4 and cohabitation also happens before the girl is 17. "Our on-?eld trainings tha


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[FONT=arial !important]Islamabad: Pakistan`s Christian women were attacked and paraded naked by a mob with the support of the ruling party. The revelation was made by a press release issued by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC).

[FONT=arial !important]According to the Daily Times, three Christian women, Arshad Bibi, Sajida Bibi and Sauriya Bibi, the daughter-in-laws of Sadiq Masih, were brutally beaten and then paraded naked by armed men hired by Muhammad Munir, the son of Abdul Rasheed, a landlord who has the support of the ruling party, the PML-N.
The incident occurred on the night of June 3 when the male members of the family were attending to their jobs.[/FONT]
[FONT=arial !important]The attackers entered the house by jumping the boundary wall of their house and unlocked the gate from the inside.[/FONT]
[FONT=arial !important]At that time, the women were sleeping in the house along with their father-in-law Sadiq Masih, 73, and mother-in-law Rani Bibi, 70.[/FONT]
[FONT=arial !important]The mob invaded the house and started looking for Masih`s sons, but when they could not find his sons, they started beating the three women. The party workers then took the three Christian women out into the street and tore their clothes off. Then they started shouting to attract the attention of the people nearby, to let them see the extent of the revenge and the power of the landlord.
As the women screamed and shouted for help, some elderly people of the village came out and put their turbans on the feet of the attackers, pledging them to leave the women.[/FONT]
[FONT=arial !important]After this, the attackers released the women but threatened the villagers against complaining to the police.[/FONT]
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Look what your supreme court judge is saying about you [hilar][hilar][hilar] ...ch@ddi wala Idiot ...

90% of Indians are 'idiots', Markandey Katju says


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NEW DELHI: Ninety per cent of Indians are "idiots" who can easily be misled by mischievous elements in the name of religion, Press Council of India (PCI) chairperson Justice Markandey Katju claimed on Saturday.
"I say ninety per cent of Indians are idiots. You people don't have brains in your heads ... It is so easy to take you for a ride," he said at a seminar.

He said that a communal riot could be incited in Delhi for as meagre an amount as Rs 2000. He said that all somebody has to do is make a mischievous gesture of disrespect to a place of worship and people start fighting each other.
"You mad people will start fighting amongst yourself not realizing that some agent provocateur is behind this," he said.
Katju said that before 1857 there was no communalism in the country but the situation was different now.
"Today 80% Hindus are communal and 80% Muslims are communal. This is the harsh truth, bitter truth that I am telling you. How is it that in 150 years you have gone backwards instead of moving forward because the English kept injecting poison," Katju said. "The policy that emanated from London after the mutiny in 1857 that there is only one way to control this country that is to make Hindus and Muslims fight each other," he said.
He said that then there was propaganda that Hindi was the language of Hindus and Urdu of Muslims. "Our ancestors also studied Urdu, but it is so easy to fool you. You are idiots so how difficult is it to make an idiot of you," Katju said.
Katju said that he was saying these harsh things to make Indians, whom he loved to understand the whole game and not remain fools


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[FONT=arial !important]Islamabad: Pakistan`s Christian women were attacked and paraded naked by a mob with the support of the ruling party. The revelation was made by a press release issued by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC).

[FONT=arial !important]According to the Daily Times, three Christian women, Arshad Bibi, Sajida Bibi and Sauriya Bibi, the daughter-in-laws of Sadiq Masih, were brutally beaten and then paraded naked by armed men hired by Muhammad Munir, the son of Abdul Rasheed, a landlord who has the support of the ruling party, the PML-N.
The incident occurred on the night of June 3 when the male members of the family were attending to their jobs.[/FONT]
[FONT=arial !important]The attackers entered the house by jumping the boundary wall of their house and unlocked the gate from the inside.[/FONT]
[FONT=arial !important]At that time, the women were sleeping in the house along with their father-in-law Sadiq Masih, 73, and mother-in-law Rani Bibi, 70.[/FONT]
[FONT=arial !important]The mob invaded the house and started looking for Masih`s sons, but when they could not find his sons, they started beating the three women. The party workers then took the three Christian women out into the street and tore their clothes off. Then they started shouting to attract the attention of the people nearby, to let them see the extent of the revenge and the power of the landlord.
As the women screamed and shouted for help, some elderly people of the village came out and put their turbans on the feet of the attackers, pledging them to leave the women.[/FONT]
[FONT=arial !important]After this, the attackers released the women but threatened the villagers against complaining to the police.[/FONT]
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Rape is a national problem in India: UN rights chief

Nagendar Sharma, Hindustan Times New Delhi, January 01, 2013
First Published: 23:34 IST(1/1/2013) | Last Updated: 23:37 IST(1/1/2013)

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Terming acts of sexual violence against women a "national problem" in India, the UN human rights chief has asked the government to strengthen its legal regime against rape, but opposed the demand of death penalty for rapists.


Navi Pillay, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in her detailed reaction on the brutal gangrape of the 23-year-old student in the Capital, who later died in a Singapore hospital, said attacks were taking place against women of all social classes in India.
"This is a national problem, affecting women of all classes and castes, and will require national solutions," she said.

Pillay welcomed the anti-rape protests, saying this will help women in overcoming fear in the New Year. She said the Indian government has taken some steps towards ensuring women safety, but much more stronger moves are required.
"Now is the time to strengthen India's legal regime against rape. I encourage the government to consult widely with civil society…..Urgent and rational debate on comprehensive measures to address such crimes are required," said the UN human rights chief.
Pillay asked the government to invite the “UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women to visit the country to assist it in this process,” since these rapporteurs are independent experts and are trained to investigate on such issues.
She, however, opposed the growing clamour of death penalty. “However, terrible the crime, the death penalty is not the answer, Pillay said, cautioning against such an extreme response.

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(Shafique Khokhar collaborated)

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abey ch@ddiwali sarkar.......yeh kya culture hai tera ??? [hilar][hilar]

[h=1]Indian Man arrested for raping daughters,[/h][h=1][/h]granddaughter
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BHARATPUR: A 64-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly raping his two daughtersand a granddaughter for several years in Bayantown of Bharatpur district, police said today.

"Babulal Dhakar's wife Shakuntala Dhakar was also arrested for supporting him in one of the most cruel acts of perversion," said Ashok Chouhan, [COLOR=#0000FF !important]SHO of Bayana Police Station.

A local court today sent the couple to judicial custody till July 31, SHO said.

[COLOR=#0000FF !important]Dhakar was arrested after two of his daughters, along with their husbands, lodged an FIR yesterday, the SHO said, adding "the daughters were stunned to see that their father has molested the granddaughter a few days ago".

The accused, Dhakar, is a retired supervisor from [COLOR=#0000FF !important]the Krishi Upaj Mandi[/COLOR], he said

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The 28-year-old woman lost the baby after the trauma. Christian and Muslims activists demand laws and protection for women. In Pakistan, "there is a widespread tolerance” of gender violence.
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Faisalabad (AsiaNews) - A 28-year-old pregnant Christian woman in Pakistan was paraded naked for not working up to the expectation of her employer. The victim - who has lost her child in the violent attack - is a resident of the Christian colony of Rana Town, in the district of Sheikhupura in Punjab province (the most populous of Pakistan). She worked as a maid and, according to reports, was forced to walk without naked for at least 30 minutes because she failed to satisfy the demands of her employers. The story only emerged yesterday, coinciding with the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
One of her employer's sons, in the company of four friends, dragged the 28-year old pregnant women from the house and ripped off her clothes and abandoned her naked, on a street corner, where an old woman gave her some clothes to cover herself. Her relatives accompanied her to the hospital for tests to check on the welfare of her unborn child, however doctors found that she was miscarrying and were unable to save the child.
"I was two months pregnant - says the woman, already the mother of four children - and I lost my baby in the incident. Police are not arresting the accused. I will commit suicide if I am not given justice". Her husband says that investigators have opened an investigation against Mobin Gondal and his four accomplices, but have not applied the law against acts of terrorism as demanded by the victim.

Meanwhile, yesterday in Faisalabad a rally was held to celebrate the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, organized by the Association of Women for Awareness and Motivation (Awam) and Pakistan Gender Coalition (PGC). The participants appealed to the government to approve a law against domestic violence, forced conversions and crimes perpetrated by - and with the endorsement of - the state apparatus.

The Christian lawyer Hashmat Barkat said that "women of religious minorities [as the above story confirms, ed] are easy targets". Nazia Sardar, Awam director, points the finger at "the exploitation of labor" without rights or protection. The activist Naseem Anthony blames "a conservative, patriarchal society," which is "at the base of domestic violence", because they are "accepted as an integral part of the culture of Pakistan". This is echoed by a Muslim activist for women's rights Amna Ehsan, who adds "there is a general tolerance of gender violence."

With a population of more than 180 million people (97 per cent Muslim), Pakistan is the sixth most populous country in the world, the second largest Muslim nation after Indonesia.
About 80 per cent of Muslims are Sunni, whilst Shias are 20 per cent. Hindus are 1.85 per cent, followed by Christians (1.6 per cent) and Sikhs (0.04 per cent).
Scores of violent incidents have occurred in recent years, against entire communities (Gojra in 2009, and Joseph Colony, Lahore, in March 2013), places of worship (Peshawar, September last year) and individuals ( Sawan Masih, Asia Bibi,Rimsha Masih and Robert Fanish Masih, who died in prison), often perpetrated under the pretext of the country's blasphemy laws.

(Shafique Khokhar collaborated)

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[hilar][hilar][hilar] ...ch@diyon nay mannequins ko bhi nahi chora

Do Sexy Mannequins Incite Indian Men To Commit Rape? Mumbai Officials Think So




By Palash Ghosh | May 28 2013 1:53 PM


In yet another measure designed to reduce sexual assaults and rapes in India, the civic body that governs the city of Mumbai is seeking to ban bikini- and lingerie-clad mannequins from storefront windows in the metropolis.


The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, or BMC, which comprises 227 councilors from all political parties, has unanimously passed such a measure, reports the Indian Express, in order to prevent “wrong acts” perpetrated by men upon women.
The proposal for the prohibition came from Ritu Tawade, a female member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, the powerful right-wing Hindu nationalist political party that is currently the principal opposition in the country.

"Lingerie mannequins promote rapes. Skimpily clad mannequins can pollute young minds. After the Delhi rape case [last December], I felt something had to be done," Tawade told Indian media.
The BJP and other right-wing groups like Shiv Sena have declared war on a number of other Western imports, like the practice of Valentine’s Day, which they feel are contrary to Indian traditional culture.
Mumbai has the second-highest incidence of rape in India behind only Delhi. The Times of India reports cases of rape, molestation and sexual harassment in Mumbai jumped by more than 15 percent from 2010 to 2011.
"It's a Western thing; our society doesn't allow [sexy maanequins]," Tawade told BBC. "It's embarrassing for girls. They come up to me and complain about display of mannequins.”
Subject to final approval by BMC Vommissioner Sitaram Kunte, city officials would be able to order shopkeepers to remove any such mannequins they deem “offensive” from the premises. The Express reports that Tawade has already asked shopkeepers in her ward to get rid of any such scantily clad mannequins.
The proposal is supported by Sunil Prabhu, the mayor of Mumbai and a member of Shiv Sena. "I have always supported women [lawmakers and councilors] in their initiatives, and I agree with her that such scantily clad mannequins do invite unwanted attention of men and the resulting surge of sex crimes," Prabhu said.
The rape epidemic in India became a global issue in the wake of the tragic gang-rape and subsequent death of a young medical student in Delhi last December.
Right-wing, conservative and religious leaders have long blamed the intrusion of Western culture, including pop music, movies and clothes, for corrupting Indian youth and inciting acts of sexual violence against women. (Explicit pornography is banned in India, although it is easily available.)
But not everyone is buying the notion that sexy mannequins lead men to commit rape. "Look at what girls wear today. They are dressed more scantily than our mannequins," Salim Faqih, a Mumbai shopkeeper, told BBC.
A female shopper named Arti Bhadra was even more dismissive, calling the proposal “stupid.” "I don't think this leads to rape. It's all about the mentality. India is backward," she said.
"Sex crimes are committed by people who have a twisted mentality, and basically if they want to be, if you like, sexually aroused, all they have to do is switch on the [Internet]. It's all over the Net. What are they talking about? It is really absurd. That is why I think 'Big Moron Corporation' is a good title for BMC," Alyque Padamsee, an advertising executive, told NDTV.
Upon final passage of the law to ban sexy mannequins, the BMC will then seek to prohibit lingerie advertisements in newspaper, magazines and billboards as well.
http://www.ibtimes.com/do-sexy-mann...commit-rape-mumbai-officials-think-so-1281277

Pakistan: Woman Stripped Naked, Paraded across Village andGang-raped for Husband's Ogling at a GirlMULTAN: A gang rape victim was paraded in the village streetsbecause her husband allegedly ‘stared’ at the daughter of one of therapists.According to police officials, Mian Channu Chak34/15-L residentAsiya, 35, was working with her family in the cotton fields whenseven armed men gang raped her. “She kept screaming for help butno one came. I was too scared to do anything because I felt theywould do the same to me,” said her sister-in-law Safia. Safia toldpolice officials that the accused began firing in the air to scare offvillagers.“Many of us tried to rescue her but the men kept firing,” Muhammad and Younus, who were also workingin the fields, told police officials. Asiya told the police that the men stripped her and paraded her aroundthe village. "They stopped at each of their own houses and raped me there before taking me to my ownhouse where my husband couldn’t do anything because they threatened to kill him,” she said.In the meantime, residents of the area united and informed the police and the criminals ran away beforethe police arrived. Nadeem, an eyewitness, told police that Asiya’s husband Abdul Kareem was accusedof staring at one of the daughters of the rapist.“The rapists said that he used to ogle at one of their girls and that the only suitable punishment was forthe entire village to ogle his wife,” said an eyewitness Bashir, adding that the rapists paraded Asiya atgun point.Villagers told police officials that the accused had been threatening retribution on Abdul Kareem for aweek. Ashraf’s daughter was going to college a week ago and she passed by Kareem’s shop in thevillage.“Apparently Kareem and his staff ogled her and called out names and she told her father. That is whatstarted it,” Bashir added.Abdul Kareeem told police officials that the charges levelled against him of harassing the rapist’sdaughter were completely unfounded. “The issue is over land. They wanted me to sell my property tothem and I refused,” he added.Mian Channu Station House Officer (SHO) Mehar Manzoor Siyaal told The Express Tribune that thepolice had lodged an FIR under Sections 365B/376, 337 H2/148 and 149 and none of the clausesallowed bail, so criminals would not be released.“We have been raiding different areas to arrest the criminals. There were seven armed men and four ofthem gang raped the victim. The other three helped hold her down,” Siyaal said. He said that police hadalready arrested one of the alleged accused Amjad but the remaining six were at large.“The accused have locked up their houses and these houses are all empty. They planned their escape inadvance but we will track them down,” he said.The victim, Asiya, has asked the Supreme Court of Pakistan and the chief minister for justice and hassought police protection for herself, her husband and her five children.Police officials said that Asia’s DNA samples had been sent to the lab for testing and police wereawaiting the results before moving the court.---All names have been changed to protect the identity of th

 

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Cleric's daughter paraded naked in Pakistan

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Islamabad: A cleric's daughter was allegedly paraded nude in a village of Pakistan's Punjab province by young men seeking revenge for her brother's actions, according to a media report on Saturday.
The incident occurred when three daughters of cleric Allah Ditta were returning home late on Wednesday after shopping. Two of them were scheduled to be married on Thursday, The Express Tribune reported.

The girl was allegedly paraded nude by young men seeking revenge for her brother's actions, a media report said on Saturday.
#Allah Ditta #Cleric's daughter #Naked #Nawan Lahore
The three girls were attacked by five youths in Nawan Lahore area of Faisalabad district. Two of the girls escaped and hid in nearby houses while their sister, Rahila, was caught by the assailants.
The young men tore off her clothes and attempted to sexually assault her. They then allegedly paraded her before the village and announced that anyone who opposed them would face similar consequences.
"They attempted to kidnap and rape her but she offered resistance," said Allah Ditta. One of the five men had recently accused the cleric's son of teasing his sister. Elders of the village then asked the cleric's son to leave the village for two years.
Later, the elders decided the accusation against the cleric's son was baseless and asked him not to leave. This infuriated the five young men.
Acting on orders from Punjab Police chief Habib-ur-Rehman, other police officers visited the village and conducted investigations.
On Thursday, police arrested all the five young men involved in the incident on charges of kidnapping and attempted rape.
Allah Ditta appealed to Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and police chief to provide him justice.
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Mother paraded naked in Pakistani village


World | Agence France-Presse | Updated: June 14, 2011 18:49 IST

Mother paraded naked in Pakistani villageWorld | Agence France*Presse | Updated: June 14, 2011 18:49 ISTIslamabad: A woman was forcibly paraded naked through a village after her sons were accused of sleeping with a marriedneighbour who became pregnant, police said Tuesday.The incident happened after neighbour Mohammad Salman grew suspicious that the woman's sons slept with his wife in Neelor Balavillage, 100 kilometres north of Islamabad, said police official Akhtar Nawaz.Enraged Salman and his brothers went to confront the suspects, who were identified only as Rashid and Kazim, but they had fled,leaving behind their mother, Nawaz said."They dragged her out, tore up her clothes and forced her to walk naked on the street," the police official said."No one has come to lodge a formal complaint. Police registered a case themselves after receiving reports from local residents," hetold AFP. An investigation is underway and two people have been taken into custody for questioning, he said.Police investigation officer Shabbir Hussain Shah said the statement of the woman, who is aged about 50, had been recorded.Salman, who works in Lahore, believed that one of the brothers had got his wife pregnant while he was away from home, Shah said.Rights for women in Pakistan are bleak. The nation still remains without a domestic violence law, pending obj

 

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Don't bare legs in India, Asian Development Bank warns delegates

TNN | May 2, 2013, 03.30 AM IST

Asian Development Bank is holding the 46th annual meeting of its board of governors in Greater Noida.http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...Bank-warns-delegates/articleshow/19826635.cms
DELHI: When in India, don't show bare legs or wear short dresses. This could hurt Indian sensibilities and may lead to sexual harassment.

That's the advice being offered by Manila-based multilateral agency Asian Development Bank (ADB), which is hosting its 46th annual meeting in Greater Noida, to more than 4,000 delegates.





The annual meeting is being held in the India-Expo mart in Greater Noida and several of the delegates from nearly 67 countries are staying in hotels in Noida, Greater Noida and Delhi. The meeting will discuss issues related to the global economy, Asian challenges and development.



The advisory posted on the general information section on the ADB website says Indians are very conservative about dress and advises women to dress modestly, with legs covered.



"Trousers are acceptable, but shorts and short skirts are offensive to many. If you want to keep cool in the Indian sun, cotton clothing is essential along with a comfortable pair of open sandals," says the advisory.



Clicking on the 'read more' section takes one to a website TravelIndia.com, which elaborates on what is acceptable and what should be avoided while travelling in India. Among other subjects, it covers taking pictures, visiting religious places, eating, concept of time, tipping, siesta and common faux pas.

It also has a special section for gay travellers. "While travelling in India you might see a lot of men holding hands. This should not be taken as a sign of their sexual orientation, in all probability they are not gay," the advisory says.

"Most gays in India are of the closet kind as Indian society does not accept homosexuality. Declaring yourself to be a homosexual is a sure way of being disowned by family and friends."




It goes on to say that in big cities and amongst the higher strata of the society, homosexuality is not considered abnormal behaviour any more but cautions about showing affection in public.



"You would be better off avoiding public displays of affection such as cuddling and kissing each other in public (not just for gays). Homosexual relations between men are illegal in India and the penalty according to the Indian Penal Code is seven years rigorous imprisonment. However, had this law been enforced strictly, the Indian prisons would have been overflowing by now," the website says.



In the section titled: "Common Faux Pas", it says that kissing and embracing are regarded in India as part of sex and asks travellers to not engage in these activities. "It is not even a good idea for couples to hold hands," it says.



The advisory on eating says that when eating or drinking, your lips should not touch other people's food - "jutha or sullied food is strictly taboo."


"Don't, for example, take a bite out of a chapati and pass it on. When drinking out of a cup or bottle to be shared with others, don't let it touch your lips, but rather pour it directly into your mouth. This custom also protects you from things like hepatitis. It is customary to wash your hands before and after eating," the advisory says

World | Agence France-Presse | Updated: June 14, 2011 18:49 IST

Mother paraded naked in Pakistani villageWorld | Agence France*Presse | Updated: June 14, 2011 18:49 ISTIslamabad: A woman was forcibly paraded naked through a village after her sons were accused of sleeping with a marriedneighbour who became pregnant, police said Tuesday.The incident happened after neighbour Mohammad Salman grew suspicious that the woman's sons slept with his wife in Neelor Balavillage, 100 kilometres north of Islamabad, said police official Akhtar Nawaz.Enraged Salman and his brothers went to confront the suspects, who were identified only as Rashid and Kazim, but they had fled,leaving behind their mother, Nawaz said."They dragged her out, tore up her clothes and forced her to walk naked on the street," the police official said."No one has come to lodge a formal complaint. Police registered a case themselves after receiving reports from local residents," hetold AFP. An investigation is underway and two people have been taken into custody for questioning, he said.Police investigation officer Shabbir Hussain Shah said the statement of the woman, who is aged about 50, had been recorded.Salman, who works in Lahore, believed that one of the brothers had got his wife pregnant while he was away from home, Shah said.Rights for women in Pakistan are bleak. The nation still remains without a domestic violence law, pending obj

 

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[h=1]We Stripped And Shouted, ‘Indian Army, Rape Me!’ It Was The Right Thing To Do’[/h]In a quiet, sleepy village, a beaming, portly woman stands in the doorway with four kids and a small grandson. Looking at her without any background information, it would be hard to imagine this gentle, happy, beatific face as the face of Manipur’s most aggressive anti-State protests. But at the age of 62, Ima Ngambi is a Manipur legend, the woman who shouted the loudest in 2004 before stripping naked to protest the rape of 32-year-old Thangjam Manorama. Her story is important not only because she has stood up to a deeply oppressive and patriarchal politics. She did all of this while living on wages of 40 a day, with which she fed a family of six, singlehandedly brought up four children and managed to save the odd rupee to put into her fight against the State. She tells Revati Laul all this isn’t a big intellectual idea. It’s simply tapping into what she believes being a woman and a mother is about

http://www.tehelka.com/we-stripped-and-shouted-indian-army-rape-me-it-was-the-right-thing-to-do/

World | Agence France-Presse | Updated: June 14, 2011 18:49 IST

Mother paraded naked in Pakistani villageWorld | Agence France*Presse | Updated: June 14, 2011 18:49 ISTIslamabad: A woman was forcibly paraded naked through a village after her sons were accused of sleeping with a marriedneighbour who became pregnant, police said Tuesday.The incident happened after neighbour Mohammad Salman grew suspicious that the woman's sons slept with his wife in Neelor Balavillage, 100 kilometres north of Islamabad, said police official Akhtar Nawaz.Enraged Salman and his brothers went to confront the suspects, who were identified only as Rashid and Kazim, but they had fled,leaving behind their mother, Nawaz said."They dragged her out, tore up her clothes and forced her to walk naked on the street," the police official said."No one has come to lodge a formal complaint. Police registered a case themselves after receiving reports from local residents," hetold AFP. An investigation is underway and two people have been taken into custody for questioning, he said.Police investigation officer Shabbir Hussain Shah said the statement of the woman, who is aged about 50, had been recorded.Salman, who works in Lahore, believed that one of the brothers had got his wife pregnant while he was away from home, Shah said.Rights for women in Pakistan are bleak. The nation still remains without a domestic violence law, pending obj

 

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[h=1]Pakistan police suspended after parading naked couple[/h]

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Media captionMumtaz Mirbahar: "They were abusing me as they made us walk... the woman was pleading with them but they kept swearing at her"Several Pakistani police officers have been suspended after they were accused of parading a couple naked in public.
According to witnesses, police in the Sindh town of Gambat forced the man and woman to walk to the police station naked as punishment for trying to have sex outside marriage.
Mobile phone footage shows a naked man being beaten by police and a woman begging them to let her cover herself.
After a public outcry, officials suspended the officers involved.
The BBC's Shahzeb Jillani says incidents of public dishonouring are not uncommon in Pakistan, but this incident is particularly shocking because it was carried out by police and filmed on mobile phones.
Last year, several men were arrested for stripping a middle aged woman naked and parading her round the village as punishment for her son allegedly having an affair with a woman in their family.
Shahnaz Bibi told the BBC at the time that her life had been ruined by the ordeal, and she could never go home.
[h=2]'Deeply scarred'[/h]The footage of this latest incident shows the man, Mumtaz Mirbahar, being pushed around and abused by police officers on his property.
He is then forced to walk naked to the police station, alongside his alleged partner, as a large crowd looks on.
Mr Mirbahar said he has been "deeply scarred" by the incident. He has been released on bail, but the woman involved is still in detention.
Local police said they took action in response to several public complaints against Mr Mirbahar, who has been reportedly holding drink and dance parties during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Neighbours confirmed to the BBC that there had been an issue, but said the police did not have the right to humiliate anyone in that manner.
Pakistani activists say unless stern action is taken against the officers involved, police abuses of their power are unlikely to end here.

 

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[h=1]Woman in Pakistan paraded naked through village streets[/h]20 June 2011 Last updated at 05:48 BST
A woman has been stripped naked and paraded through her village in Pakistan.
The people who assaulted her accused one of her sons of having an affair.
Speaking to the BBC, Shahnaz Bibi says she cried and pleaded with the men, who she says continued to beat her.
Aleem Maqbool reports.

 

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India : Nirbhaya Rapist Juvenile could walk free on December 20





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Nirbhaya's Mother Asha Devi speaks at a programme to observe the third anniversary of Nirbhaya gang-rape case as 'Nirbhaya Chetna Divas' at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. Social activist Shabana Azmi is also seen.







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High Court declines to issue any direction to continue the stay of the juvenile, who is now an adult, in the observation home beyond Dec. 20


The juvenile convict in the December 16, 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape case moved closer to freedom on Friday after the Delhi High Court refused to stop his release on his completing the three-year sentence. The court cited existing provisions of the law while holding that no direction could be issued to prolong his stay in the observation home beyond Sunday.
A Division Bench of the High Court, hearing a writ petition moved by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy, said the maximum stay that could be directed in the observation home under Section 15 (1) of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act was three years. The juvenile, who is now an adult, will be completing three years on December 20.
Also read: Crime has won and we have lost, says mother of victim
However, the Bench, comprising Chief Justice G. Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath, directed the Juvenile Justice (JJ) Board of Delhi to interact with the juvenile, his parents and guardians and the Delhi government’s Women and Child Development Department officials for his post-release rehabilitation and “social mainstreaming.”

For this, the JJ Board, which had sentenced the juvenile to three years’ detention, will pass appropriate orders in accordance with the provisions of the Juvenile Justice Act and Rules. The court in its seven-page order referred to legal provisions for individual care plan, periodic review and follow-up, social investigation and reducing the juvenile's vulnerability.
The petition, seeking a stay on the release, said the boy had been “radicalised” by another youth accused in the Delhi High Court blast case of 2011 lodged in the same observation home. In response to the petition, the Centre had sought extension of his stay in the observation home at Majnu Ka Tila here, till all aspects, including his mental health and post-release rehabilitation plan, were considered by the authorities. The court had also sought an Intelligence Bureau report, in a sealed cover, about him having been radicalised. The court pronounced the order in the presence of Dr. Swamy and the rape victim’s parents and posted the case for further hearing on March 28, 2016.

Social activist Shabana Azmi consoles Narbhaya's Mother Asha Devi at a programme to observe the third anniversary of Nirbhaya gang-rape case as 'Nirbhaya Chetna Divas' at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Wednesday. (PTI)​

Centre told to file response in 8 weeks
While asking the Union government to file its response within eight weeks on the issue of reformation of juveniles, the Bench directed that the Delhi government be impleaded as a respondent to the petition.
The court pointed out that Rule 17 (3) of JJ Rules provides for individual care plan, reviewed from time to time by the management committee set up under Rule 55, while Rule 65 provides for restoration of juvenile to the family and follow-up action. The rule also provides for submission of a quarterly follow-up report to the JJ Board for two years, said the court.
The brutal incident of the gang rape of a 23-year-old girl by six persons, including the juvenile, in a moving bus here on December 16, 2012 had shocked the nation. Four of the accused were awarded the death penalty by the trial court, which was later confirmed by the Delhi High Court, while one accused allegedly committed suicide in Tihar Jail.
Also read: Delhi gang rape: Chronology of events
Keywords: December 16 Delhi gang rape, Nirbhaya case, Juvenile Justice Boar

Image captionMukhtar Mai still lives in her village, and runs a school for girlsFive of six men charged over a village council-sanctioned gang rape in Pakistan have been acquitted by the Supreme Court.
The court upheld the decision of a lower court, which included commuting the death penalty of the sixth man to life imprisonment.
The victim, Mukhtar Mai, hit world headlines after speaking out about her ordeal in 2002. She has since become an icon for women's rights in Pakistan.
She said she now feared for her life.
Mukhtar Mai was her clear and unambiguous self when she spoke minutes after the verdict, the BBC's Shoaib Hasan in Pakistan said.
"The police never even recorded my own statements correctly," she said.
"I don't have any more faith in the courts. I have put my faith in God's judgement now. I don't know what the legal procedure is, but my faith [in the system] is gone.
"Yes, there is a threat to me and my family. There is a threat of death, and even of the same thing happening again. Anything can happen."
Ali Dayan Hasan of the US-based Human Rights Watch said the verdict sent a "very bad signal" across Pakistani society.
"It suggests women can be abused and even raped with impunity and those perpetrating such crimes can walk," he told the BBC.

"Life and death are in the hands of Allah... I will not shut my school and other projectsMukhatar Mai​

Profile: Mukhtaran Mai

The Supreme Court ordered the five men's immediate release - but it is not clear if they have been freed yet.
The court has yet to issue a detailed judgement. But the Lahore High Court - whose decision was upheld - had put the blame on a lack of evidence.
Our correspondent says many people say another review of the case is needed as it has had such a key impact on the rights of women in Pakistan.
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Mukhtar Mai was attacked on the orders of the powerful Mastoi clan as a punishment because her brother - 12 at the time - had allegedly been having an affair with a Mastoi woman. This, they said, had brought shame to the entire clan.
An illiterate villager in the eastern province of Punjab, Mukhtar Mai could have gone the way of many other Pakistani women who are raped, committing suicide.
Instead, she battled against her initial suicidal feelings and began a lengthy legal battle, which has since won her human rights accolades and an iconic status for women's rights in the country.
She runs a school for girls in her village, and has vowed that Thursday's ruling will not force her to leave her home.
"Life and death are in the hands of Allah... I will not shut my school and other projects," she told Reuters news agency.



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INDIA :Why was Nirbhaya’s most vicious and barbaric rapist set free?

By Amit Nangia Published: December 28, 2015









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The minor who was convicted in the gangrape and murder of Nirbhaya. PHOTO: REUTERS

Thegang rapeon that fateful night of December 16, 2012 sent shock waves across India and the world. It was not just the brutality or brazenness of the assault that was terrifying, but it was also the fact that it happened in the heart of the country’s capital, right in the midst of its usual hustle and bustle. It wasn’t perceived as a stray incident of rape in an isolated outpost, it was an assault on the people’s sense of security. Middle class India identified with Nirbhaya, and a society that is normally divided over most issues suddenly coalesced in its collective outrage.
As the public rallied behind Nirbhaya, there were protests, debates, introspection, and a call for serious action to stem the rising menace of rape in India. The police swung into action, and even before Nirbhaya succumbed to the horrific injuries she suffered, the perpetrators had been apprehended. A trial followed and all the accused were found guilty and sentenced.

Ordinarily, the sentencing would have taken the case to its logical conclusion, bringing about a sense of closure. However, there was one discomfiting element. Among the five rapists, there was a minor and he was supposedly the most vicious and barbaric of the perpetrators. Due to the prevailing laws, the maximum punishment he could receive was three years in a juvenile home. That three-year sentence recently came to an end and he walked free. In the immediate aftermath of the incident, the process for formulating a new law dealing with juveniles accused of committing heinous crimes had been initiated. However, due to political differences, this new law had been stuck in the Rajya Sabha, the Upper House of Parliament.
The run-up to the rapist’s release led to another round of turmoil and angst, and reopened old wounds. The public sentiment against the juvenile rapist was so strong that it even compelled the Rajya Sabha to finally pass the bill, although it was not applicable retroactively. Several attempts were made to thwart his release and various organisations explored multiple avenues to ensure his continued incarceration. These efforts ultimately went in vain as the courts interpreted the laws in letter and spirit.
As much as all of India would have liked to see him behind bars forever, the judiciary had to respect the letter of the law, which is actually a reflection of the solidity of the country’s judicial set up. Many people nevertheless felt frustrated with what they see as the impotence of the legal system. Very often it has been seen that people get disproportionately harsh sentences for minor offences while in certain cases, people have gotten away with relatively lighter punishment for more heinous crimes. At any rate, the juvenile rapist, now 20-years-old, was a free man on the evening of December 20[SUP]th[/SUP], 2015.
Those opposing his release, including Nirbhaya’s parents, see this situation as a travesty of justice. They advance the argument that a person who is capable of committing such savagery is surely not deserving of any leniency and will clearly be a threat to society. He is unlikely to be reformed and it has been reported that he remained unmoved and uncommunicative with reform home workers through his three-year term. The Delhi state government is giving him a sewing machine and a grant to start a tailoring shop. The question many Delhiites want to ask Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is whether he would be willing to send his own daughter, alone, to such a tailor to give her measurements.
The authorities do plan to monitor him but they need to ensure that it is done effectively. He must not be allowed to slip under the radar and get involved in more violent and destructive activities.
The Nirbhaya case was a pivotal moment in the continuing evolution of Indian society. The one positive thing that has come out of this tragedy is that sexual violence, which is actually a global issue, took centre stage in Indian public discourse. Since then genuine efforts have been made to reduce this kind of violence against women.
Toughening the laws is a welcome step, but it will be a tough battle in the backdrop of the prevailing patriarchy and misogyny in society across South Asia. It will require tough enforcement of the laws, a sustained campaign to sensitise young males about the need to respect women, a reformation of the mind-set that mostly blames the victim for the crime, and ultimately education in responsible management of personal sexual desire. All societies owe it to themselves to equip their members with the skills to manage their energies and impulses at the mental, emotional, and physical levels in ways that are not harmful to other people.
In addition to robust preventive measures, it is also important to reform the way rape is treated. There is much to learn from the way ancient India handled these issues. Rape is deeply traumatic, but it need not be stigmatised. That’s an extremely important aspect to consider and society must provide complete support and sympathy for the victim. Her physical violation should not be linked to her honour or self-worth. Rape is abhorrent and reprehensible. Every incident of rape deserves the utmost indignation and outrage and every perpetrator must be held to account. Hopefully, the country is moving in the right direction, towards a more equal society, liberated from the burden of gender oppression.

20 June 2011 Last updated at 05:48 BST
A woman has been stripped naked and paraded through her village in Pakistan.
The people who assaulted her accused one of her sons of having an affair.
Speaking to the BBC, Shahnaz Bibi says she cried and pleaded with the men, who she says continued to beat her.
Aleem Maqbool reports.

 

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Sharia in Action: Christian women forced to parade naked in Pakistan

[COLOR=#333333 !important]ByPAMELA GELLER on June 21, 2013[/COLOR]

PAKISTAN: ONE BULLET AWAY FROM JIHAD NUKE
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"Christian women forced to parade naked in Pakistan" Zee News, July 20, 2013 (thanks to Hindujagruti.org) hat tip Coumar

Islamabad: Pakistan's
Christian women were attacked and paraded naked by a mob with the
support of the ruling party. The revelation was made by a press release
issued by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC).
According to the Daily Times, three Christian women, Arshad Bibi, Sajida
Bibi and Sauriya Bibi, the daughter-in-laws of Sadiq Masih, were
brutally beaten and then paraded naked by armed men hired by Muhammad
Munir, the son of Abdul Rasheed, a landlord who has the support of the
ruling party, the PML-N.
The incident occurred on the night of June 3 when the male members of the family were attending to their jobs.
The attackers entered the house by jumping the boundary wall of their house and unlocked the gate from the inside.

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At that time, the women were sleeping in the house along with their
father-in-law Sadiq Masih, 73, and mother-in-law Rani Bibi, 70.
The mob invaded the house and started looking for Masih's sons, but when
they could not find his sons, they started beating the three women. The
party workers then took the three Christian women out into the street
and tore their clothes off. Then they started shouting to attract the
attention of the people nearby, to let them see the extent of the
revenge and the power of the landlord.
As the women screamed and shouted for help, some elderly people of
the village came out and put their turbans on the feet of the attackers,
pledging them to leave the women.
After this, the attackers released the women but threatened the villagers against complaining to the police.



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[h=1]Nirbhaya gangrape case: No law, juvenile rapist to walk free tomorrow[/h]DECCAN CHRONICLE | SANJAY KAWPublishedDec 19, 2015, 7:40 am IST
UpdatedJan 10, 2016, 8:38 am IST


Victim’s father expressed disappointment and said it should have had a deterrent effect.

The convict, now 20 years old, is expected to walk out of the reformation home on December 20 after he completed his three-year jail term. (Photo: PTI)

[COLOR=#4B4B4B !important]New Delhi: A debate is raging across the country and in Parliament as the juvenile convicted in the December 16, 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape is all set to walk out a free man on Sunday, as scheduled, after the Delhi high court refused to intervene in the case.​

[COLOR=#4B4B4B !important]The decks were cleared for the release of the convict, who attained legal adulthood within a year of committing the heinous crime, with the Delhi high court on Friday refusing to intervene, saying he cannot be stopped from walking free under existing provisions of law.[/COLOR][COLOR=#4B4B4B !important]The convict, now 20 years old, is expected to walk out of the reformation home on December 20 at the end of his three-year term in a reform home, unless there is a stay from the Supreme Court.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=#4B4B4B !important]Brushing aside the public outcry against his release, a two-judge bench comprising Chief Justice G. Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath directed the Juvenile Justice Board to interact with the convict, his parents and concerned officials of the Department of Women and Child Development regarding his “rehabilitation and social mainstreaming”.[/COLOR][COLOR=#4B4B4B !important]“Crime has won and we have lost (Jurm jeet gaya, hum haar gaye)” was the immediate reaction of the family of the gangrape victim after the court refused to stay the release of the convict. A dejected Asha Devi, mother of the victim, told reporters: “Despite all our efforts for three years, our government and our courts have released a criminal. The assurance we were given was that we will get justice, but that has not been delivered. We are very disappointed. Although we haven’t seen him, not met him, but despite all our efforts, the criminal will walk free.”[/COLOR][COLOR=#4B4B4B !important]The victim’s father also expressed disappointment over the order and said it should have had a deterrent effect. He indicated that they have no plans to move the Supreme Court for now. “The order must be delivered while keeping in mind that it helps in the betterment of society and acts as a deterrent so that no one can commit such kinds of crimes in future,” he said, adding that the law must be changed.[/COLOR][COLOR=#4B4B4B !important]Read:[/COLOR][COLOR=#4B4B4B !important]Release of juvenile convict: Now, Maneka Gandhi blames Rajya Sabha[/COLOR][COLOR=#4B4B4B !important]DCW chief too opposes juvenile move[/COLOR]

[COLOR=#4B4B4B !important]‘Crime has won', says Nirbhaya's family after Delhi HC refuses stay on juvenile convict's release[/COLOR][COLOR=#4B4B4B !important]The rape case had raised a major debate across the country on whether the age of juvenility should be lowered or they should be treated as adults in cases of heinous offences. Cutting across party lines, women MPs had also opposed the release of the juvenile convict in this case.[/COLOR][COLOR=#4B4B4B !important]Union minister Maneka Gandhi blamed Rajya Sabha for not passing the bill to amend the Juvenile Justice Act, which seeks stringent punishment for children aged between 16 and 18 years involved in heinous crimes. “I would blame the Rajya Sabha for not passing the law. Had they passed the bill, he (accused juvenile) would not have gone scot-free,” Ms Gandhi said outside Parliament. [Any such amendment would need to have restroactive effect, which is another sticking point in law.] She said the existing law was insufficient to hold the punishment of the accused juvenile who was the most gruesome of all six rapists.[/COLOR][COLOR=#4B4B4B !important]

[/COLOR][COLOR=#4B4B4B !important]Union water resources minister Uma Bharti said though the court’s decision cannot be questioned, the matter needs to be deliberated upon to find a solution. “I cannot question the court’s decision as it works in the ambit of laws. We will have to deliberate upon possible solutions in this matter.”[/COLOR][COLOR=#4B4B4B !important]But BJP leader and former top cop Kiran Bedi said even after the juvenile convict is released, the 20-year-old youth can be arrested by the Delhi police for apprehension of breach of peace. “Rapist being released can be arrested by Delhi police under 107/151 of CrPC for apprehension of breach of peace till SC considers parents’ petition,” she tweeted.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=#4B4B4B !important]Congress leader Sharmistha Mukherjee said, “It is a collective responsibility, but primarily of the state, because the whole focus of our judicial system is not retributive but reformative. And we focus on giving a second chance to a person, and specifically in the cases like this. Youth have got so much energy, and if it is not channelised positively it can turn destructive.”[/COLOR][COLOR=#4B4B4B !important]The Delhi Commission for Women said the court’s refusal to stay the release was a “dark day” in the history of the country and that the DCW would appeal against his release. DCW chairperson Swati Maliwal said she would appeal to the Chief Justice of India, the Delhi high court and also write to the President against the release of the juvenile.[/COLOR][COLOR=#4B4B4B !important]Earlier, the high court said BJP leader Subramanian Swamy’s plea seeking a stay on the release of the juvenile convict cannot be allowed as statutory and existing law was coming in its way. “Having regard to the fact that the maximum stay that can be directed in the Special Home under Section 15(1) of the Juvenile Justice Act is three years and that the convict would be completing the period of three years by December 20, 2015, there cannot be any direction to continue his stay in the special home beyond December 20. Hence we decline to issue any direction as prayed by the petitioner.”[/COLOR][COLOR=#4B4B4B !important]The high court said the issue of reformation of a juvenile in conflict with the law required deeper consideration and sought the response of the Centre and Delhi government on the issue within eight weeks. “The need for ascertaining the factum of reformation of the juveniles in conflict with law before they are released from the special home on expiry of the period of stay ordered by the JJ Board is a larger issue of public importance which requires deeper consideration...”[/COLOR][COLOR=#4B4B4B !important]The release of the convict was also opposed by the Centre which had said several mandatory aspects were missing from the post-release rehabilitation plan which needed to be considered before setting him free.[/COLOR][COLOR=#4B4B4B !important]The case dates to December 29, 2012, when six persons, including the convict who was then a juvenile, had brutally assaulted and raped a 23-year-old girl in a moving bus in South Delhi. The victim had died in a Singapore hospital on December 29, 2012. Mukesh, Vinay, Pawan and Akshay were awarded the death penalty by a trial court in the gangrape and murder case which was later confirmed by the Delhi high court. Their appeals are pending before the Supreme Court. Accused Ram Singh had allegedly committed suicide in Tihar Jail on March 11, 2013, and proceedings against him were abated following his death.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=#4B4B4B !important]In his petition, Mr Swamy had claimed that there is a lacuna in the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act of 2000, as amended in 2011. The JJ Board had sentenced the juvenile to three years’ detention in a reformation home. In the petition, Dr Swamy contended that “no provision has been made in the act to provide for vicious unregenerate convicted juveniles who, despite having undergone the reformation process for the maximum penalty of three years custody in a special home, continue to be a menace to society...”[/COLOR]​

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20 June 2011 Last updated at 05:48 BST
A woman has been stripped naked and paraded through her village in Pakistan.
The people who assaulted her accused one of her sons of having an affair.
Speaking to the BBC, Shahnaz Bibi says she cried and pleaded with the men, who she says continued to beat her.
Aleem Maqbool reports.

 

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http://news.excite.com/odd/article/id/259243|

Pakistan Woman Councilor Beaten, Paraded Naked

LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan's leading rights group said Sunday it was shocked at the public humiliation of a woman councilor beaten and paraded naked through a village on the orders of a powerful landlord.

The News Sunday newspaper said the incident happened on Dec. 7 in a village near Sialkot, an industrial town north of Lahore.

It said in an ordeal that lasted several hours, the woman, the widowed mother of seven, was beaten, stripped and paraded naked through the village by the landlord and his sons after she refused to back his candidate in a local election.

Kamila Hyat, director of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, said the incident was not the first of its kind.

"At least four similar cases have been reported this year," she said, adding the incident was indicative of the low status of women in Muslim, male-dominated Pakistan.

"People think they have the license to humiliate women on some pretext or the other, to subject them to this kind of degradation," she said.

Hyat said more such incidents were inevitable unless the government took tough steps to ensure women's rights were upheld.

Earlier this year a woman was gang-raped on the orders of a traditional jury in a village in the Punjab province. A Pakistani court later sentenced six men to death for the rape, in a trial which highlighted the abuse of women in rural areas.

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After she refused to back someone's candidate in a local election? Are these people for real? Since when does being a landlord give one the right to dictate opinion to their tenents?

This article indicates that at least some Pakistanis would love the Taliban, or those who share their blind ignorance, to be in power:

 

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According to a data, charge-sheeting rates were high for rape (95.6 per cent).


Despite an increase in the number of cognisable crimes in India during 2014, the rate of conviction rose as well.
There were over 9.4 lakh cases under the IPC pending investigation at the end of 2013 (over a third from Assam, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu alone), to which 28 lakh cases registered during 2014 were added.
Cause for concern

While theft accounted for the largest number of pending cases, rash driving added the most new cases in 2014. In over one lakh cases, the final police report found the complaints false; these included over 2,500 rape cases and nearly 10,000 abduction cases.
However, the largest number of cases deemed false were of cheating. At the end of 2014, the number of cases pending investigation had grown to over 10 lakh.

In all, the police filed charge sheets in nearly 80 per cent of all IPC cases deemed true. Charge-sheeting rates were high for rape (95.6 per cent) and low for theft (35.6 per cent). Among the States, the rates were the highest in Kerala (96.7 per cent), Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh, and the lowest in Manipur (9.9 per cent), Assam and Meghalaya. They were also high for special laws, but particularly low in the cases of the Electricity Act and the Railways Act.
At the level of courts, nearly 80 lakh cases under the IPC were pending at the end of 2013, to which 20 lakh cases were added and sent to trial during 2014. Trials were completed in over 13 lakh of these cases during 2014.
The conviction rates for the cases under the IPC rose to 45.1 % in 2014 from 40.2 % the previous year. They tend to be the highest for rash and negligent driving, and low for cruelty by husband and his relatives; attempt to rape and rape, too, have low conviction rates, which have not risen since 2013.
“You have to examine the type of cases that come before us,” an additional sessions judge in a Delhi court told The Hindu. “There may be some biased judges, but the majority would not be able to convict for the rape cases that come before us. Even in the higher courts, the acquittal is upheld,” the judge said.
Mizoram and Kerala have high conviction rates, while Bihar and West Bengal have the lowest conviction rates, at just over 10 per cent.
Even as the number of registered crimes against the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes rose by nearly 20 per cent, the rate of conviction under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act remained low, at under 16 per cent.

PAKISTAN: ONE BULLET AWAY FROM JIHAD NUKE
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Obama say, "respect it!"
"Christian women forced to parade naked in Pakistan" Zee News, July 20, 2013 (thanks to Hindujagruti.org) hat tip Coumar

Islamabad: Pakistan's
Christian women were attacked and paraded naked by a mob with the
support of the ruling party. The revelation was made by a press release
issued by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC).
According to the Daily Times, three Christian women, Arshad Bibi, Sajida
Bibi and Sauriya Bibi, the daughter-in-laws of Sadiq Masih, were
brutally beaten and then paraded naked by armed men hired by Muhammad
Munir, the son of Abdul Rasheed, a landlord who has the support of the
ruling party, the PML-N.
The incident occurred on the night of June 3 when the male members of the family were attending to their jobs.
The attackers entered the house by jumping the boundary wall of their house and unlocked the gate from the inside.

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At that time, the women were sleeping in the house along with their
father-in-law Sadiq Masih, 73, and mother-in-law Rani Bibi, 70.
The mob invaded the house and started looking for Masih's sons, but when
they could not find his sons, they started beating the three women. The
party workers then took the three Christian women out into the street
and tore their clothes off. Then they started shouting to attract the
attention of the people nearby, to let them see the extent of the
revenge and the power of the landlord.
As the women screamed and shouted for help, some elderly people of
the village came out and put their turbans on the feet of the attackers,
pledging them to leave the women.
After this, the attackers released the women but threatened the villagers against complaining to the police.



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[h=1]3 Years After Delhi Rape, Conviction Rates Same[/h]

With controversy continuing over the ban on India’s Daughter, a British documentary on the Delhi rape case of December 2012, what has not been discussed as much is the record of the justice system in prosecuting such cases.



Only one in four rape trials leads to conviction in India, according to the latest data tabled in the Rajya Sabha. The conviction rate for rape trials was 26.4%, 24.2% and 27.1% in 2011, 2012 and 2013, respectively.

Among the reasons for low conviction rates, according to Majlis, a Mumbai-based legal advocacy, are: victims recanting statements, delays in registering a first information report, faulty investigation, indifferent prosecutors, inconsistencies and contradictions in witness statements, insensitive judges and gruelling cross-examination of even minor children by astute criminal (defence) lawyers.

India’s conviction rate is higher than developed countries, such as the United Kingdom, which recorded a conviction rate of 7% in 2011-12. The conviction rate as low as 10% in Sweden and 25% in France, according to Time magazine.

Nagaland, which recently witnessed the lynching of a man accused of rape at the time, had India’s highest conviction rate of 85.7% in 2013, followed by Sikkim at 73.8%.

Conviction rates in West Bengal and former Andhra Pradesh are the worst among large Indian states. Only 11.6% of rape trials in Andhra Pradesh led to conviction in 2013, a marginal increase over 11.2% the previous year. West Bengal had a conviction rate of 12.6% in 2013, an increase over the 2012 rate of 10.9%.

In other words, about one in nine rape trials in West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh ends in conviction.

Maharashtra, Assam and Gujarat also perform poorly with conviction rates of 17.5%, 13.9% and 18.8%, respectively, for 2013.

There is a possibility that the actual national conviction rates could be lower than reported by the National Crime Records Bureau, which compiles data sent by states.


Source: Rajya Sabha

Reported rape cases rise. It may not mean rapes have risen

Rape cases registered in India increased 35% over a year, from 24,929 in 2012 to 33,707 in 2013.

While it is hard to say that rapes have increased (although they might have), it does indicate that more victims have been willing to come forward and register complaints after thewidespread protests that followed the Delhi rape case in December 2012.

The highest increase in cases registered has been in Delhi, which has reported a 132% rise, from 706 in 2012 to 1636 in 2013.

Over the same period, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra reported a 55% and 67% rise respectively.

West Bengal and Mizoram were the only two states that saw declines in registered rape cases, by 18% and 14%, respectively.

Data indicate massive under-reporting of rape

These figures, in many ways, are indicative of a more serious problem–under reporting of cases.

Flavia Agnes of Majlis narrated the case of a professional at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), who said she was raped/sexually assaulted by an IIT professor.

“She refused to lodge a complaint despite the support which was offered to her,” Agnes toldIndiaSpend. “But now, under the new law on child sexual abuse, as well as the recent criminal law amendment, not reporting a crime is an offence.”

About 5.8%, or one in 17 cases, of sexual violence by men other than a survivor’s husband are, according to some estimates, reported to the police, according to a 2014 study by Aashish Gupta, a research fellow at the Research Institute for Compassionate Economics. (The study was based on data from 2005.)

Additionally, only about 0.6%, or one in 167 incidents of sexual violence by husbands is reported. Marital rape is not a crime in India.

Under-reporting of rape is evident in the data put out by Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh.

UP, with a female population of 98.8 million women, registered 3,050 rape cases in 2013. Bihar with a female population of 48.6 million women recorded 1,128 cases in 2013.

So, UP and Bihar reported a rape case rate (rape cases registered per 100,000 women) of 3.08 and 2.3, respectively, in 2013.

Madhya Pradesh, with 35.8 million women, recorded 4,335 rape cases in 2013, a rape case rate of of 12.1. This is four times the rate in UP and five times the rate in Bihar.

Madhya Pradesh fares better than UP and Bihar on human development index indicators, such as sex ratio and literacy.

So, for MP to have a far higher crime rate is improbable. The data indicate under-reporting in UP and Bihar. The same trend is evident across India.

‘A harrowing experience from police station to medical examination’

Why do victims hesitate to report rape to law-enforcement agencies?

“It is indeed a harrowing experience right from the police station to the medical examination, the test-identification parade, cross-examination in court, the indifference of the prosecutor and the callousness of the judge,” said Agnes, referring to the case of recently deceasedwomen’s rights activist and ‘Park Street Rape’ survivor Suzette Jordan of Kolkata.

“Why would a victim want to be subjected to it especially when she knows that the conviction rate is so low?”, said Agnes. “What does she get out of it except humiliation and stigma? Is it a wonder that women do not report [rape]?”

LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan's leading rights group said Sunday it was shocked at the public humiliation of a woman councilor beaten and paraded naked through a village on the orders of a powerful landlord.

The News Sunday newspaper said the incident happened on Dec. 7 in a village near Sialkot, an industrial town north of Lahore.

It said in an ordeal that lasted several hours, the woman, the widowed mother of seven, was beaten, stripped and paraded naked through the village by the landlord and his sons after she refused to back his candidate in a local election.

Kamila Hyat, director of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, said the incident was not the first of its kind.

"At least four similar cases have been reported this year," she said, adding the incident was indicative of the low status of women in Muslim, male-dominated Pakistan.

"People think they have the license to humiliate women on some pretext or the other, to subject them to this kind of degradation," she said.

Hyat said more such incidents were inevitable unless the government took tough steps to ensure women's rights were upheld.

Earlier this year a woman was gang-raped on the orders of a traditional jury in a village in the Punjab province. A Pakistani court later sentenced six men to death for the rape, in a trial which highlighted the abuse of women in rural areas.

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After she refused to back someone's candidate in a local election? Are these people for real? Since when does being a landlord give one the right to dictate opinion to their tenents?

This article indicates that at least some Pakistanis would love the Taliban, or those who share their blind ignorance, to be in power:[/B]