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20% of Indian men admit to forcing their wives or partners to have sex. [41] Marital rape can be classified into one of three types: [42] Battering rape: This includes both physical and sexual violence. The majority of marital rape victims experience battering rape. Force-only rape: Husbands use the minimum amount of force necessary to coerce ...
Female infanticide in India has a history spanning centuries.Poverty, the dowry system, births to unmarried women, deformed infants, famine, lack of support services, and maternal illnesses such as postpartum depression are among the causes that have been proposed to explain the phenomenon of female infanticide in India.
This figure includes all forms of forced sexual activity by husband on wife, during their married life, but not recognised as marital rape by Indian law. [ 16 ] In 2005–2006 nationwide family and health survey report, the lowest domestic violence prevalence rate was reported by women of Jainism religion (12.6% of women), the highest by women ...
Mass murder and rape of Muslims by Indian Armed forces and Hindu paramilitary groups. [51] Matikhrü massacre: 6 September 1960 Matikhrü (now in Phek district, Nagaland) 9 civilians The incident took place on September 6, 1960, when forces of the 16th Punjab Regiment of the Indian Army committed an act of mass murder against the village of ...
Uxoricide (from Latin uxor meaning "wife" and -cide, from caedere meaning "to cut, to kill") is the killing of one's own wife. It can also be used in the context of the killing of one's own girlfriend. It can refer to the act itself or the person who carries it out. Conversely, the act of killing of a husband or boyfriend is called mariticide.
A hitman who was one of two people who shot and killed a man acquitted in the 1985 bombing of an Air India flight has been jailed for life in Canada without the possibility of parole for 20 years.
The 2013 Mumbai gang rape, also known as the Shakti Mills gang rape, [1] [2] refers to the incident in which a 22-year-old photojournalist, who was interning with an English-language magazine in Mumbai, was gang-raped by five people including a juvenile.
The Nellie massacre took place in central Assam during a six-hour period on the morning of 18 February 1983. [5] [6] The massacre claimed the lives of 1,600–2,000 people [7] from 14 villages—Alisingha, Khulapathar, Basundhari, Bugduba Beel, Bugduba Habi, Borjola, Butuni, Dongabori, Indurmari, Mati Parbat, Muladhari, Mati Parbat no. 8, Silbheta, Borburi and Nellie—of Nagaon district.