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  • Most effective 5 out of 31 gang rape instances have ended in convictions in Gujarat between 2017-21

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    AHMEDABAD:  Gujarat is regarded as a protected state for girls. However the choice of crimes towards ladies reported within the state would possibly not beef up this. Within the 5 years as much as 2021, the state has reported 2,633 instances of rape and 31 instances of gang rape and homicide of ladies.

    Consistent with the Executive of India’s answer within the Lok Sabha, whilst handiest 5 other people were prosecuted in gang rape and homicide instances, 4,820 instances were reported in 5 years below the class ‘Attack on Ladies with Intent to Outrage her Modesty’.

    On July 25, MPs requested within the Lok Sabha whether or not incidences of harassment of ladies, together with rape and homicide, have escalated. In reaction, the Ministry of House Affairs gave the statistics of 5 years of violence towards ladies in India.

    Consistent with Gujarat statistics, 4 instances of gang rape and homicide of ladies have been reported in 2017, however no person was once convicted. In 2018, six instances have been reported and no person was once convicted. Subsequent 12 months, seven instances have been reported. Once more, no person was once convicted. Seven instances have been reported in 2020, with out someone being punished. In 2021, seven instances have been reported, and 5 other people have been prosecuted.

    Meenakshi Joshi, All India Ladies Sanskrutik Organisation, mentioned, “The state equipment is accountable for non-convictions in heinous crimes corresponding to gang rape since there are loopholes within the registration of FIRs. Beneath Phase 164 of the related Act, the survivor’s observation must be taken as temporarily as imaginable, but the state equipment is both no longer or it’s gradual.”

    Consistent with statistics introduced within the Lok Sabha, 477 instances of rape have been registered in Gujarat in 2017. Whilst 37 accused have been convicted, 283 individuals have been acquitted. In 2018, 553 instances have been registered; 20 have been convicted and 179 have been set loose.

    Whilst 528 instances have been registered in 2019, 31 individuals have been convicted and 165 acquitted. In 2020, 486 instances have been registered; 8 individuals have been convicted and 77 have been acquitted. In 2021, 589 instances have been registered, with 14 convicted and 134 acquitted.

    AHMEDABAD:  Gujarat is regarded as a protected state for girls. However the choice of crimes towards ladies reported within the state would possibly not beef up this. Within the 5 years as much as 2021, the state has reported 2,633 instances of rape and 31 instances of gang rape and homicide of ladies.

    Consistent with the Executive of India’s answer within the Lok Sabha, whilst handiest 5 other people were prosecuted in gang rape and homicide instances, 4,820 instances were reported in 5 years below the class ‘Attack on Ladies with Intent to Outrage her Modesty’.

    On July 25, MPs requested within the Lok Sabha whether or not incidences of harassment of ladies, together with rape and homicide, have escalated. In reaction, the Ministry of House Affairs gave the statistics of 5 years of violence towards ladies in India.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Consistent with Gujarat statistics, 4 instances of gang rape and homicide of ladies have been reported in 2017, however no person was once convicted. In 2018, six instances have been reported and no person was once convicted. Subsequent 12 months, seven instances have been reported. Once more, no person was once convicted. Seven instances have been reported in 2020, with out someone being punished. In 2021, seven instances have been reported, and 5 other people have been prosecuted.

    Meenakshi Joshi, All India Ladies Sanskrutik Organisation, mentioned, “The state equipment is accountable for non-convictions in heinous crimes corresponding to gang rape since there are loopholes within the registration of FIRs. Beneath Phase 164 of the related Act, the survivor’s observation must be taken as temporarily as imaginable, but the state equipment is both no longer or it’s gradual.”

    Consistent with statistics introduced within the Lok Sabha, 477 instances of rape have been registered in Gujarat in 2017. Whilst 37 accused have been convicted, 283 individuals have been acquitted. In 2018, 553 instances have been registered; 20 have been convicted and 179 have been set loose.

    Whilst 528 instances have been registered in 2019, 31 individuals have been convicted and 165 acquitted. In 2020, 486 instances have been registered; 8 individuals have been convicted and 77 have been acquitted. In 2021, 589 instances have been registered, with 14 convicted and 134 acquitted.

  • ‘Lacking’ girls of Gujarat: Police officers say not able to track 2,124; 39K go back

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    AHMEDABAD:  After The New Indian Categorical document on 41,621 lacking girls in Gujarat went viral, Gujarat Police in defence of the state govt issued a explanation on social media that 39,497 have since then returned.

    It’s, on the other hand, a self-admission that 2,124 girls are nonetheless lacking and the police are not able to track them. Considerably, the police have no longer contended the numbers within the information document.

    The state govt has no longer shared info and figures for 2021 and 2022 which requires extra explanation.

    “Out of 41,621 girls long gone lacking right through the duration 2016-20 as in keeping with the information revealed in Crime in India-2020, 39,497 of the lacking girls had been traced and they’re united with their households. The stated knowledge could also be a part of Crime in India, 2020,” Gujarat Police tweeted. 

    “The investigation has published that girls pass lacking because of circle of relatives disputes, elopement, failure in examinations, and so on,” it added.  

    In keeping with the TNIE document according to the Nationwide Crime Data Bureau (NCRB) knowledge, 7,105 girls went lacking in 2016, 7,712 in 2017, 9,246 in 2018, and 9,268 in 2019.

    In 2020, 8,290 girls have been reported to have long gone lacking. The whole quantity provides as much as 41,621.

    By the way, as in keeping with a observation made via the state govt within the Meeting in 2021, 4,722 girls went lacking in only one 12 months (2019-20) in Ahmedabad and Vadodara.

    AHMEDABAD:  After The New Indian Categorical document on 41,621 lacking girls in Gujarat went viral, Gujarat Police in defence of the state govt issued a explanation on social media that 39,497 have since then returned.

    It’s, on the other hand, a self-admission that 2,124 girls are nonetheless lacking and the police are not able to track them. Considerably, the police have no longer contended the numbers within the information document.

    The state govt has no longer shared info and figures for 2021 and 2022 which requires extra explanation.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    “Out of 41,621 girls long gone lacking right through the duration 2016-20 as in keeping with the information revealed in Crime in India-2020, 39,497 of the lacking girls had been traced and they’re united with their households. The stated knowledge could also be a part of Crime in India, 2020,” Gujarat Police tweeted. 

    “The investigation has published that girls pass lacking because of circle of relatives disputes, elopement, failure in examinations, and so on,” it added.  

    In keeping with the TNIE document according to the Nationwide Crime Data Bureau (NCRB) knowledge, 7,105 girls went lacking in 2016, 7,712 in 2017, 9,246 in 2018, and 9,268 in 2019.

    In 2020, 8,290 girls have been reported to have long gone lacking. The whole quantity provides as much as 41,621.

    By the way, as in keeping with a observation made via the state govt within the Meeting in 2021, 4,722 girls went lacking in only one 12 months (2019-20) in Ahmedabad and Vadodara.

  • Jharkhand: IAS officer Sayyed Riyaz Ahmed suspended over sexual harassment of IIT pupil

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    RANCHI:  IAS officer Sayyed Riyaz Ahmed, who was once posted as sub-divisional Justice of the Peace in Khunti and arrested previous this week for allegedly sexually harassing an IIT pupil, has been suspended.

    As consistent with the FIR lodged by means of the sufferer at Mahila Police Station in Khunti on July 4, the bureaucrat careworn her sexually after making her under the influence of alcohol early within the morning on July 2.

    A observation from the executive minister’s workplace mentioned, “Leader Minister Hemant Soren has directed to droop Syed Riyaz Ahmed, running as SDM in Khunti. The SDM was once accused of sexual harassment.” 

    Ahmed is dealing with fees below IPC sections 354 (attack or legal power to lady with intent to outrage her modesty), 354A (sexual harassment) and 509 (phrase, gesture or act supposed to insult the modesty of a girl), police mentioned.

    A courtroom on July 5 remanded the officer to judicial custody for 14 days.

    In keeping with the police, the alleged incident took place all over a birthday celebration on Friday evening, which persevered until early morning on Saturday, and when only a few other folks had been left on the venue within the wee hours.

    The complainant is alleged to be a pupil who had come to Khunti for a month to pursue her internship.

    When the SDM discovered her on my own on the birthday celebration, he allegedly sexually careworn her there, the sufferer informed the police in a observation.

    The police, prima facie, discovered the allegation to be true after Ahmed and a few visitors who attended the birthday celebration had been wondered.

    (With PTI Inputs)

  • Youths accused of raping minor woman lynched, set on fireplace in Jharkhand’s Gumla

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    RANCHI: In but every other incident of mob lynching in Jharkhand, two tribal youths have been burnt alive via the villagers in Jharkhand’s Gumla, allegedly for raping a minor woman from the village. Each have been rushed to the clinic however one in every of them succumbed to his accidents right through remedy, whilst the opposite one remains to be suffering for existence.

    The formative years, who misplaced his existence, has been recognized as Sunil Oraon, whilst the opposite one as Ashish Oroan, each intended to be shut pals of one another. The incident came about at Amba Toli village beneath Basua Panchayat, about 18 km from district headquarters in Gumla past due within the night on Wednesday.

    Consistent with the police, the woman had long gone to a relative’s position in Lohardaga to wait a serve as in conjunction with her mom and aunt. Whilst returning house on Wednesday, they have been status on the bus stand, right through which, two youths of her village reached there on a motorbike and requested why they have been status there.

    “After a temporary conservation, they introduced the woman to drop her house because the bus was once getting past due. However, as a substitute of shedding her house, they took her to the close by jungle and raped her one after the other,” mentioned Gumla Sub-divisional Police Officer (SDPO) Manish Chandra Lal. After the incident, they dumped the woman close to her house, he added.

    After achieving house, in line with SDPO, she informed her father and brother concerning the incident. Enraged over the incident, the woman’s members of the family and a couple of different villagers began in search of them and located them at Ashish’s space. After a temporary altercation, they satisfied each Sunil and Ashish to come back with them announcing {that a} Panchayat has been referred to as to settle the topic.

    “When they reached Amba Toli, the motorcycle was once set ablaze via sprinkling petrol on it and the 2 youths have been crushed up via punches and bamboo sticks. After thrashing them badly, the 2 youths have been additionally placed on fireplace after glowing kerosene oil on them following which, they ran against their respective house and took safe haven over there,” mentioned the SDPO.

    Later, police have been knowledgeable and so they have been rushed to Sadar Medical institution in Gumla from the place they have been referred to Rajendra Institute of Clinical Sciences (RIMS) in Ranchi, he added. “Sunil Oraon succumbed to his accidents right through remedy, early within the morning on Thursday, whilst Ashish Oraon remains to be suffering for existence,” mentioned the SDPO.

    An FIR has been lodged within the incident in opposition to 5 named and 10-12 unknown individuals, he added. One FIR has additionally been lodged from the woman’s aspect in opposition to the 2 individuals – Ashish Oroan and Sunil Oroan.

    SDPO mentioned the woman has filed a grievance with Sadar police station alleging rape and has been put beneath scientific supervision. In the meantime, the members of the family calling it lynching, have demanded motion and repayment accordingly.

  • Pass judgement on’s area burgled in Bihar’s Rohtas, spouse, daughter crushed up

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    SASARAM: Armed burglars struck on the place of dwelling of a judicial officer in Bihar, beat up his spouse and daughter, and decamped with money and different valuables price greater than Rs 3 lakh, a senior police officer mentioned on Tuesday.

    In line with Rohtas Superintendent of Police Kumar Ashish, the incident happened on the executive lodging equipped to Judicial Justice of the Peace Mahendra Nath Pandey, who was once away within the court docket.

    “In line with the pass judgement on’s spouse Gunja Kumari, the burglars had been 3 in quantity. They’d come to the home round 10 am below the pretext of assembly the pass judgement on. Upon being instructed that Pandey was once no longer at house, they asked for some water to drink,” mentioned the police officer.

    No quicker than the spouse went to fetch water, the burglars barged within, aimed their firearms at her and made her phase with all of the jewelry she was once dressed in.

    Additionally they made her free up the cabinet and picked up Rs 50,000 in money and a few extra adorns which have been stored within.

    The SP mentioned the burglars additionally beat up the pass judgement on’s spouse and his little daughter once they attempted to position up a resistance.

    They’ve estimated the overall worth of the loot at greater than Rs 3 lakh.

    “It’s an act of audacity and a large problem for the police. We unravel to crack the case and convey the culprits to e-book on the earliest,” mentioned the police officer.