Since 2015, more than 11,000 women married to Indians abroad have approached India’s foreign missions with complaints of domestic crises. Many cases involve allegations of fraud and abuse. But in most instances, overseas officials are able to do only so much to help.
According to the police, the incident took place on Friday night when the minor girl and her mother were heading to Roorkee from Kaliyar, Haridwar in a rickshaw.
Polygyny or the practice of having more than one wife is legal in India only for Muslims, but National Family Health Survey (NFHS) data shows it is almost as prevalent in other communities, though on the decline in all.
Noting that the gang-rape and murder of a three-year-old girl in Ramesh Nagar in 2012 was done in the most “brutal and diabolic manner”, the Delhi high court on Tuesday awarded life imprisonment (for the remainder of their natural lives) to three persons convicted of the crime.
It was the tragic death by suicide that has laid bare the daily trauma of the three sisters from a landless household married to an affluent family with demands for dowry from impoverished parents.
Chandigarh: Parents of minor children who are victims of sexual crimes cannot arrive at a compromise with the perpetrator, the Punjab and Haryana high court has ruled.
Four of the five juveniles, who were arrested in early June in connection with the gang rape of a 16-year-old girl abducted from a Hyderabad pub, were released on bail late on Tuesday.
Four men allegedly gang-raped a 16-year-old girl in Chhattisgarh’s Jashpur district when she was on her way to a relative’s place on Saturday, police said on Tuesday.
An Act to protect the rights of married Muslim women and to prohibit divorce by pronouncing talaq by their husbands and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Before discussing the subject, first let us see the definition of rape.