Pratiksha Baxi

This pandemic has taught us that by refusing to even give interim bail to women undertrials, including mothers and pregnant women or the elderly and the seriously ill, and victims of prison rape, the criminal legal system is attached to a spectacular form of cruelty.

In violation of the non-discrimination clause of the disaster law, many undertrials are constructed as “undeserving” and condemned to inhuman, cruel and degrading treatment.

The idea that women students have rights was totally irrelevant to these male mobs. The space for a college festival turned into a theatre of macabre sexual violence.

When society celebrates an encounter killing of rape suspects, our judiciary should worry.

SC does well to criminalise marital rape of a minor wife. It also needs to classify child marriage as forced marriage

Despite overwhelming protest, critique and lobbying, there is little change in the way rape is trivialised.

Inscribed in the tragedy are rapacious systems of dominance.

Disciplinary action cannot replace legal proceedings against sexual violence.

The Ruchika Girhotra case is a study in brute power and legal indifference.....