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Santra Devi inherited two bighas of government-allotted arid land in the 1970s, which sustained her family until her husband's death in 2013, after which village leaders harassed her with casteist slurs and burned her hut in 2015 to force her off the property, leading her to seek legal protection that was repeatedly denied.
According to the complainant, the appellant had married her in her house in front of the photo of Lord Sai Baba and thereafter, he continued to live with her as husband and committed sexual intercourse on several occasions.
The plea also referred to similar instances of "period-shaming" and invasive checks in schools and workplaces over the years, including a 2017 case where 70 girls in Uttar Pradesh were allegedly stripped naked to check for menstrual blood, and a 2020 incident in Gujarat where 68 college students were asked to remove their underwear for inspection.
The legal title to this land is currently sub-judice, pending a decision in the court of the Upper Collector and SDM of Bada Malhera.
For Afghan women, the fight is twofold: escaping the Taliban's clutches, only to face economic strain, insecurity, and a haunting sense of invisibility in a nation that doesn't formally recognize them as refugees.
In this election, BAPSA secured only one seat – the SSS Councillor won by Komal Devi.
From Kerala to Gujarat, fisherwomen across India marked International Fisherwomen’s Day with powerful assertions of rights and dignity.
This is not the first time Rana Ayyub has faced such harassment. Last year, her personal number was leaked online.
The film is scheduled for release on November 7.
The Kerala High Court rejected the notion of registering a second marriage "behind the back of the first wife," invoking principles of fairness from the Quran and Hadith.
The incident took place near Varkala railway station on November 2, when the young woman from Thiruvananthapuram was allegedly pushed out of a moving train by a person reportedly under the influence of alcohol.
The young doctor, who had been serving at the rural hospital for over a year, reportedly took her life amid extreme distress caused by alleged repeated sexual assaults and intimidation.
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