COVER STORY
This issue of Outlook is our attempt at a ‘Herstorical’ approach, where we have tried to listen again to stories of rapes as an act of remembrance and to bring to the surface again what has been submerged
Outlook Magazine - 11 September 2024
Lest We Forget...
Public outburst of anger over the rape and murder of a junior doctor in Kolkata has left the Mamata Banerjee government puzzled, worried
After the initial uproar over the many rapes during the violence between Kuki and Meitei communities in Manipur, investigations now seem to have hit the snooze button.
At least five tribal girls in Sidhi district in MP were raped by a 30-year-old man, who used a voice-changing app to pose as a woman college professor offering them scholarships
In May, a nine-year-old girl was raped in a village in Latehar district of Jharkhand, the state which is currently placed third in the country for rapes of minor girls
Despite global outrage at the gang rape and murder of two minors in Badaun, UP in May 2014, nine years later the case has not reached trial stage. The family continue to live in fear in the same village, awaiting justice
Can the police demand that a victim submit their complaint in writing? Can they refuse to register a crime because it occurred outside their jurisdiction?
On November 27, 1973, Aruna Shanbaug, a staff nurse at the KEM Hospital in Mumbai, was brutally attacked by a male sweeper, Sohanlal Valmiki. He raped and sodomised her, while strangling her with a dog chain
In 1991, 40 Kashmiri women alleged that Army officers raped them. The case remains pending
From a mother who can't forget her daughter's injuries to a neighbour who keeps a victim's memory alive, the demand for justice for in Bihar continues
Public outburst of anger over the rape and murder of a junior doctor in Kolkata has left the Mamata Banerjee government puzzled, worried
After the initial uproar over the many rapes during the violence between Kuki and Meitei communities in Manipur, investigations now seem to have hit the snooze button.
At least five tribal girls in Sidhi district in MP were raped by a 30-year-old man, who used a voice-changing app to pose as a woman college professor offering them scholarships
In May, a nine-year-old girl was raped in a village in Latehar district of Jharkhand, the state which is currently placed third in the country for rapes of minor girls
Despite global outrage at the gang rape and murder of two minors in Badaun, UP in May 2014, nine years later the case has not reached trial stage. The family continue to live in fear in the same village, awaiting justice
Can the police demand that a victim submit their complaint in writing? Can they refuse to register a crime because it occurred outside their jurisdiction?
On November 27, 1973, Aruna Shanbaug, a staff nurse at the KEM Hospital in Mumbai, was brutally attacked by a male sweeper, Sohanlal Valmiki. He raped and sodomised her, while strangling her with a dog chain
In 1991, 40 Kashmiri women alleged that Army officers raped them. The case remains pending
From a mother who can't forget her daughter's injuries to a neighbour who keeps a victim's memory alive, the demand for justice for in Bihar continues
OTHER STORIES
The case from Sikar, Rajasthan shows how calls for punishment of perpetrators don’t always mean empathy for the victim
Survivors of marital rape face twin hurdles: a lack of legal framework to deal with these cases and the social stigma that comes with reporting them
How do the residents of Sheikhpur Gudha, Phoolan Devi’s village in Uttar Pradesh, remember her: as a survivor, a rebel, a leader?
On March 14, 2006, Latabai and her son, six, were paraded naked in a village in Solapur. Less than six months later, four members of a Dalit family were paraded naked; mother & daughter were allegedly gang-raped
UP has the highest rate of crimes against women, and the district of Unnao has seen some of the State’s most gruesome cases
The 2012 Delhi gang rape is reflective of a systematic failure to cleanse the societal malaise
Muhammad Iqbal Shah’s 14-year-old cousin was gang-raped and murdered at Handwara town, Kupwara, in 2007. The family is still trudging along the long road to justice
From a legal perspective, justice appears to have been served in the 2017 Gudiya rape and murder case at Kotkhai, Himachal Pradesh. But several questions persist
The lawyer of Bilkis Bano on the woman who fought for justice after losing 14 members of her family and suffering the extreme trauma of gang rape
