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By Pranjal Baruah Guwahati: Assam has been witnessing protests since February 3, 2023, as the state police decided to launch its ‘war against child marriage’. In just 24 hours, the police arrested over 2,044 persons who were allegedly involved in child marriages. The state government has cited the high Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) and Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) as the prime reasons to curb child marriages. The National Family Health Survey that was conducted in 2019-20 and released last year revealed that Assam had an underage pregnancy rate of 11.7%, that’s significantly higher than the nat...
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By Samriddhi Sakunia Delhi \- Nearly two months after a 14-year-old girl was killed in Uttar Pradesh's Badohi district, her family escaped their village in search of justice. The family alleges that the 14-year-old was gangraped by villagers connected to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. The police has arrested four people in the case, but the FIR has no mention of rape. "We escaped to Delhi very quietly," the family told BOOM. They said the police tracked them, threatened to file charges against them if they spoke to the media, and prevented them from leaving the village, till they escaped. ...
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By Ritika Jain A local court in Panipat on May 20 acquitted Ikhlak Salmani of sodomising a minor boy a year and a half after he was arrested by the Haryana Police. A fast-track court cleared Salmani—who alleged that his arm was chopped off because he was a Muslim—of all charges after observing that the prosecution had failed to make its case beyond the shadow of reasonable doubt. The testimonies of the victim and the key witnesses could not be corroborated by medical evidence, the court observed adding that they ran "rather contrary to the assertions made by the victim." "The entire case of th...
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