She said that both would assault and verbally abuse her if she protested.
In March 2016, her eldest brother had punched her in the abdomen when she refused to satisfy his lust. She then decided to lodge a police complaint.
As per the complaint filed by the victim when she was a Class 12 student, she said the incidents started when she was 11 & in Class 5.
Her eldest brother, then 19, would touch her inappropriately, but she did not tell anyone about it as she did not understand what was happening.
He had then drugged her at night and forced himself on her when she was incapable of protesting due to the effect of the drug. Three months later, he repeated it. This time, her younger brother, then 16, had learnt about the incidents and subjected her to the same by drugging her
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In 1951, the world decided to legally protect itself from genocide. So they codified it into a document.
This document is called The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG), or Genocide Convention.
India is one of the 152 signatories
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This convention is a response to the atrocities of the holocaust.
Polish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin coined the term genocide in 1944 to describe Nazi policies in occupied Europe, and the Armenian Genocide campaigned for its recognition as a crime under international law.
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The important thing is to focus on what makes genocide stoppable.
The convention is not a fact after an event. It asks us to recognise the "intentional effort to completely or partially destroy a group based on its nationality, ethnicity, race, or religion"
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The Mumbai Police had sent notices to GitHub, GoDaddy and Twitter demanding details of the app’s creators, their website and accounts. The platforms refused to provide these details and demanded a subpoena instead
Hyderabad police refused to include trafficking charges.
"The listed “closed” programmes include Emeritus Fellowship, Dr S. Radhakrishnan Post Doctoral Fellowship in Humanities and Social Sciences, Post Doctoral Fellowship to Women Candidates and Post Doctoral Fellowship to SC-ST Candidates."
The National Fellowship for Scheduled Caste students is also shown to have been discontinued in 2018-19.
Forms od violence include: 'arms twisted, hair pulled, being kicked, dragged, beaten up, punched with a fist or something that could hurt her, choked or burnt, the report stated'
“Eight per cent of married women in the age group of 18-49 reported that their husbands physically forced them to have sex even when they did not want to,
Religious fault lines in Tripura have been getting sharper due to political dynamics that have been developing in the state since the BJP took office in 2018.
A new element has been introduced into the equation by the attempts of the Trinamool Congress from neighbouring West Bengal to expand its footprint into Tripura.
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Tripura’s Muslims, who form 9% of the population, are overwhelmingly Bengali speakers. They have not been in the limelight before because the conflict lines in the state have so far been between the Bengali Hindus and the indigenous tribal people.
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