Posted on November 5, 2014 by Rita Banerji
2 November 2014, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh
Furious that his daughter was in love with a boy she knew, he first stopped her going to school, and then drugged and raped her every night for a year.
http://m.timesofindia.com/city/hyderabad/Man-rapes-daughter-for-falling-in-love/articleshow/45008742.cms
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Posted on September 30, 2014 by Rita Banerji
26 September 2014, Rajasthan
A police constable has been charged with raping and strangling to death his 8 year old niece. Later he pretended to help the family search for her and file an FIR (police complaint). He also had a history of sexually abusing children in the family, for which the family had beat him up, but lodged no police complaint. Families often choose to be secretive about routine sexual abuse and sexual violence within the family.
http://m.timesofindia.com/city/jaipur/Rajasthan-constable-arrested-for-rape-murder-of-8-year-old-niece/articleshow/43483472.cms
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Posted on September 29, 2014 by Rita Banerji
27 September 2014, Rampur, UP
A woman whose had complained about being sexually harassed by her daughter’s father-in-law, was attacked and gang raped inside her home by him and six other armed accomplices. While there is social outrage against increased incidents of sexual violence and gang rapes on women outside their homes in India, there is very little attention brought to the same crimes frequently committed within the homes.
http://m.ibnlive.com/news/woman-gangraped-by-relative-six-others-in-uttar-pradesh/502311-3-242.html
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Posted on September 8, 2014 by Rita Banerji
In 2005 a high profile rape case of a woman called Imrana by her father-in-law brought to light an ugly reality of young women living with their in laws. Many are subject to sexual abuse by their husband’s male relatives and forced by the family to live with the abuse and the dark secret. Click on the link below
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/father-in-law-rapes-woman
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Posted on September 7, 2014 by Rita Banerji
September 06, 2014
A Muslim woman in Muzzafarnagar, UP, who was raped and made pregnant by her father-in-law has been told by Muslim clerics that under Sharia law she is to carry the fetus to term and consider her husband her son. The woman wants an abortion and her father-in-law prosecuted for rape. This appears to be a repeat of a high profile case from 2005,which involved the rape of a woman called Imrana, who also was told she was to divorce her husband and marry her father-in-law. Judgements like these though in conflict with constitutional laws, are often indulged under the ambit of ‘personal laws’ for minority communities, even when they are abusive towards women. There is a growing demand for one law for all under the Constitution.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/muslim-clerics-india-ask-rape-victim-consider-husband-son-after-she-impregnated-by-father-law-1464310
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