'“Women need male protection from birth to death and their energy/power (urja) should be controlled lest it becomes worthless and destructive.” “Only controlling women power will foster the birth and rearing of great men.” “There are inherent dangers in making women like men. If men acquire women like qualities they become God, but when women acquire men like qualities they become “rakshas” (demons).
'The Supreme Court has refused to share any information about how it resolved a former employee’s sexual harassment complaint against former Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, RTI documents with The Wire show. In replies to queries filed by RTI activist Anjali Bhardwaj, the Supreme Court said that information regarding the setting up of the Justice S.A. Bobde-led in-house committee which probed the allegations of sexual harassment against Justice Gogoi and the induction of Justice Indu Malhotra as its third member in place of Justice N.V.
'On 8 January, the Central Bureau of Investigation submitted its latest status report in the Muzaffarpur shelter-home case to the Supreme Court, in a sealed envelope. The agency told the court that there had been no murders in the shelter home and that all the “35 girls were alive.” The Caravan’s ongoing investigation of the case revealed that the witness statements of over a dozen minors refuted the CBI’s claim.
'SAYING THAT internet was just used to watch “dirty films (gandi filmein)” in Jammu and Kashmir, NITI Aayog member V K Saraswat said on Saturday that suspension of services in the region, following the government’s decision to revoke J&K’s special status under Article 370 on August 5 last year, did not have a “significant” effect on the economy...'
'On 8 January, the Central Bureau of Investigation told the Supreme Court that no children were murdered in the Muzaffarpur shelter-home case. Appearing on behalf of the agency, the attorney general, KK Venugopal, informed the court that all the “35 girls were alive.” The bench, headed by the chief justice of India, SA Bobde, accepted the argument without any comment. The CBI made the claim while updating the court about its investigation in the shelter-home case, which the court is overseeing.
'Students and civilians who gathered on Thursday near Ministry of Human Resources and Development (MHRD) to protest the violence in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) were lathi-charged and a dozen of them were detained from the location by police. Protesters alleged they were lathi-charged by the police near Shastri Bhawan even though they were marching peacefully from MHRD towards Rashtrapati Bhavan after students met HRD ministry officials... A female protester who was present at the demonstration alleged she was hit by a male cop.
'The students of Jawaharlal Nehru University have been agitating to get the proposed fee hike rolled back for weeks now and adding to this are the anti-CAA protests. In the midst of these, on January 5, masked men and women entered the campus, hitting students and destroying public property. This attack has led to fresh dharnas inside the university campus which have been covered by the media extensively.
'Police on Tuesday registered a case of murder, kidnap, gang rape and related charges against four persons in connection with the death of a 19-year-old Dalit girl whose body was found hanging from a tree in a village four days after she went missing on January 1. The FIR was registered under various provisions of the Indian Penal Code and Scheduled Caste & Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act following protest by hundreds of people from the Dalit community in front of Modasa Rural police station since Monday night...
'On key social indices — no poverty, zero hunger, quality education, gender equality, sustainable consumption and production — Gujarat is at the bottom of the ladder while the undivided state of Jammu and Kashmir is among the performing states. On gender equality, Jammu and Kashmir is among the top performing states — in a league of three, the other two being Himachal Pradesh and Kerala. Jammu and Kashmir outperforms the other two by a notch with a score of 53 while Himachal scored 52 and Kerala 51...'
'...Though he was the first CJI to face a sexual harassment charge, the controversy deepened when he sat on the bench hearing the case in a Saturday hearing devised by him. Justice Gogoi was absolved by a questionable due process, and then the Central government persuaded the woman not to file further internal proceedings on the promise of reinstatement for her relatives and herself. This cloud will remain on his tenure, and the court... He had his own home-grown agenda relentlessly to push the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam.
