Is there a new rule of law where survivors have to be respectful towards their abusers in their dialogue? Has India gone back to primitive times when women were expected to restrict their speech?
Raised to be wary of everyone and everything, women are vulnerable to the world around them until they learn on their own how to protect themselves.
The survivor alleged that from January last year until April 2022, Joshi had allegedly raped her multiple times.
The women came forth and shared their stories in the aftermath of anonymous allegations of inappropriate behaviour about the DJ circulating on social media in June 2020.
Policies intended to prevent intimate partner femicide should not become narrowly focussed around gendered factors such as men’s attitudes to women and toxic masculinity.
Gujarat Home Minister Harsh Sanghavi the leading cause of rapes in India is easy access to pornographic videos on mobile phones. Basing his comment on a “recent survey”, he added that mobile phones and known people committing crimes were major reasons for the high incidence of rapes in India.
The conductor asked the aggressor to get off the bus; he also asked the 21-year-old to ignore the incident. However, she was determined to not let this instance pass. She got off the bus when the man did and chased him with her phone’s camera turned on to get pictorial proof for the police.
However, neither of the parties has reported the issue to the police.
The four accused are swimmers and belong to Gurugram. They were in city for training.
The National Commission for Women (NCW) sent a fact-finding team to Dholpur, Rajasthan, on Tuesday (March 22), where a 26-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped in front of her children and husband.
