Found 12 Articles for Crimes

"Anatomy is destiny, " wrote Sigmund Freud. This quote encapsulates the implications faced by taking birth as women and the way women are perceived by men due to their physicality.We have been hearing about eve teasing and physical molestations of women happening around every corner of the country round the clock. We look up to the police to help us in this situations. What if policeman starts teasing a woman? Where shall we go and what shall we do?If I am standing alone at the bus stop and see one girl being teased by a policeman, I would capture the ... Read More

To begin with, it's a straightforward question of lack of infrastructure and staffing that has resulted in a backlog of over 28 million pending cases in lower courts. Over one-fifth of these pending cases have been stuck in the lower or district courts for more than 5 years.Shortage of JudgesIn the high courts, there are almost 500 posts of judges that are lying vacant while in the lower courts, the number is ten times higher. This has come to mean that there is just one judge in India for nearly every 74, 000 people. According to an estimate calculated by ... Read More