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Tag: Violence against women

  • Angered by rejection, Mumbai man uploads woman’s phone number on porn site, sends her sex toys

    By PTI

    MUMBAI: A 26-year-old man was arrested here for allegedly uploading the phone number of a woman on a porn website and sending her sex toys, after she rejected his advances, police said on Thursday.

    The Malad police last week arrested the man who had been harassing the woman after she rejected his proposal earlier this year, an official said.

    According to the police, the woman, who is a college student, had approached the police in February with a complaint that she had been getting calls from people seeking sexual favours and some unidentified person had been couriering her sex toys.

    During the probe, the police set about tracking down the IP addresses used to upload the woman’s phone number on the porn site and order sex toys online and zeroed in on the accused, the official said.

    The accused has been arrested under relevant sections of the Information Technology (IT) Act and further investigation is underway, he added.

  • Study finds over 78 per cent respondents have faced violence in public places

    By PTI
    NEW DELHI: A study on bystander behaviour has revealed that 38.5 per cent of them didn’t intervene during violence in public spaces because they did not know what to do.

    According to the study — ‘Decoding Bystander Behaviour: Actions to Address Violence Against Women’ — 78.4 per cent of the respondents said that they had faced violence in public spaces.

    The study by Breakthrough with support from Uber India and IKEA Foundation was conducted in Jharkhand (Hazaribagh district), Bihar (Gaya district), Haryana (Jhajjar district), Delhi, Maharashtra (Mumbai), Telangana (Hyderabad) and Kolkata, covering over 721 respondents through digital survey and 91 in-depth interviews.

    Most participants, particularly women, identified violence as a broad term, consisting of physical, mental, verbal, and sexual abuse.

    The study also highlighted how patriarchal practices were culturally embedded in society and its correlation between deteriorating mental health and everyday misogyny and patriarchy.

    The study found that 54.6 per cent of the respondents said that they have intervened in an incident of violence against women in a public space, while 55.3 per cent respondents observed the discomfort of woman/girl facing violence.

    Around 67.7 per cent respondents said that their intervention resulted in the violence stopping.

    People who intervened to stop the violence did so in a variety of ways which included swapping seats with the survivors/victims, giving one’s mobile number to connect later, taking the survivor for medical help.

    Respondents also said they helped by physically escorting someone home when she is being harassed.

    The study also found 45.4 per cent of the respondents said that they have not intervened in an incident of violence against women.

    Over 38 per cent respondents said that they did not intervene because they did not know what to do.

    Around 31 per cent of them said that they were worried about their own safety, and about 11.5 per cent of them felt that they would be dragged into police/legal matters if they intervened.

    “For us, promoting positive bystander action to address violence against women has been a consistent focus area.

    Breakthrough’s intent in undertaking such campaigns is to move the general public from identifying violence against women and girls as a personal issue to identifying violence against women and girls as a shared community issue, a shared responsibility, requiring community action,” said Sohini Bhattacharya, President & CEO, Breakthrough.

  • UP horror: Three-year-old girl raped by her uncle

    By PTI
    MAU: A three-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her uncle here, police said on Friday.

    The girl was raped on Thursday and a compliant in this regard was filed by her mother against her brother-in-law (girl’s uncle), Superintendent of Police (SP) Sushil G said.

    The accused is absconding and the police is trying to arrest him, the SP said, adding that the medical examination of the girl has been done.

    The matter will be taken to the fast track court to ensure justice to the girl.

  • UP man gets seven years in jail for murdering wife for dowry

    By PTI
    PRATAPGARH: A local court has sentenced a man and his parents to seven-year imprisonment for killing his wife for dowry in 2014.

    Additional Sessions Judge Santosh Kumar Tiwari awarded the sentence on Wednesday to Sanjay Shukla, his father Radhey Shyam, mother Gayatri Devi and three others identified as Vijay Shukla, Ajay and Rajesh.

    Sadhna was killed on March 31, 2014 following which a dowry death case was registered by her father.

  • Suspecting wife of infidelity, man kills minor daughter in Gujarat

    By PTI
    AHMEDABAD: A 23-year-old man allegedly killed his five-year-old daughter suspecting his wife of infidelity in Gujarat’s Anand district, police said on Thursday.

    The Anklav taluka police on Wednesday arrested Shailesh Padhiyar, a farmer, for strangling his daughter at a field near his house in Mujkuva village, sub-inspector P K Sodha said.

    Investigations have revealed that the accused quarrelled with his wife frequently and suspected that his daughter was born out of an extramarital affair, he said.

    “On January 26, Padhiyar approached the police claiming that someone had killed his daughter by strangling her,” the official said.

    The police found something amiss and on interrogation, the accused broke down and admitted to the crime, he said.

    Padhiyar took the child to a field and strangled her, following which he returned home and started looking for her, before approaching the police, the official added.