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.
In July, 2021, when the Sulli Deals app surfaced, multiple FIRs were registered following complaints by the women whose names and pictures had appeared on the app. Seven months on, no progress has been made in the investigation of the case by the police.
In Kolkata Noor Mahvish, a law student, whose name and picture had appeared on Sulli Deals, had to go through a “harrowing” experience to get an FIR registered.“I had gone to file a complaint around 8 July...
Despite having provided them with screenshots and all the necessary details, I had to explain everything over and over again,” she said. It took Kolkata Police almost a month to register the FIR,
“Justice is a far-fetched dream for Muslims in India. The system is apathetic towards our sufferings. We have been auctioned and treated like sub-human individuals. Yet suo moto cognizance of the case was not taken and the onus to act was put on the women,” - @Fatima_Z0hra
“all women need not file complaints individually. The police have the power to take suo moto cognizance and act once they receive information on a cognisable offence.” - @Vakeel_Sb
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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 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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