Topic: Rape
“Raped by MP, booked by police, summoned by judge…” UP woman who set herself on fire dies
The 24-year-old woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghazipur district who had set herself on fire along with a male friend outside the Supreme Court last week following she had lodged a rape case against BSP MP Atul Rai, and accused police of supporting him, succumbed to burn injuries on Tuesday. The male friend, a 27-year-old Delhi University graduate, had died during treatment on Saturday.
9-year-old Dalit girl raped, murdered, forcibly cremated by a priest: Family in Delhi
In a shocking incident, a nine-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly raped and murdered and her body forcibly cremated by a priest named Pandit Radhey Shyam and his companions in the capital city, New Delhi.
“Will you marry her?” Supreme Court asked accused in a rape case
"If you want to marry (her) we can help you. If not, you lose your job and go to jail. You seduced the girl, raped her," Chief Justice of India SA Bobde told a rape accused Monday.
Dalit women body demands judicial probe into OBC minor girl’s death in Delhi
On 4 October, a 17-year-old OBC girl, was found dead at her employer’s house at D10/3, Model Town, New Delhi. A fact finding report has been released on friday by All India Dalit Mahila Adhikar Manch (AIDMAM), an autonomous unit of National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR) and a platform for women from Dalit communities in India to escalate voices for justice.
A similar road taken by Delhi Police like that of Hathras
In national capital Delhi, an issue of refusal to take an FIR on the alleged rape and murder of a Dalit girl, inhuman physical torture inflicted on the victim's family along with constant threats and ending up burning off the body of the victim forcefully.
Radhika Vemula and 10 Dalit-Bahujan-Adivasi-Vimukta activists seek intervention in Hathras case before Supreme Court
11 women and queer activists, academics, and journalists belonging to Dalit-Bahujan-Adivasi-Vimukta communities have filed an Impleadment Application in the matter pertaining to the rape and murder of the 19-year-old Dalit woman in Hathras by upper-caste Hindu men.
