Tag: Woman
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‘Abuse every day’: Indian female medics speak out after brutal murder
Saving lives was the childhood dream for 28-year-old Indian doctor Radhika, but after the brutal rape and murder of a colleague her own safety has increasingly become a top concern. Earlier this month, at the government-run hospital where Radhika works in the eastern city of Kolkata, the battered and bloodied body of a 31-year-old woman…
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Woman keeping babies in freezer not charged
A 69-year-old woman from Boston, whose apartment was found to have frozen infants in the freezer in 2022, will not be charged. A probe into the case started back in 2022 — which was deemed as “one of the most complex, unusual and perplexing” investigations by District Attorney Kevin Hayden. It has been said in…
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Five suspects granted bail in two honour killing cases
Peshawar High Court has granted bail in two separate cases involving honor killings. The first case involved Swat resident, Akhtar Ali, suspected of being involved in the killing of his wife and another man over three months ago. The bail was granted by Justice Shahid Khan of a single-member bench, who directed the submission of…
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Woman arrested in Tandlianwala for false blasphemy accusations against neighbours
A woman has been arrested by the Tandlianwala City Police in Toba Tek Singh after she threatened to falsely accuse neighbours of desecrating the Quran. Under the First Information Report (FIR) filed under Section 211 of the Pakistan Penal Code and Section 16 of the Punjab Maintenance of the Public Order Ordinance 1960 , 21…
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Alarming surge in violence against women in Punjab with Lahore at top
A staggering surge has been witnessed in violence against women, with over 10,000 cases reported in the first four months of 2023 alone in Punjab. Startling data from the Sustainable Social Development Organisation (SSDO), a research-based advocacy firm, reveals that 5,551 women were kidnapped during this period, translating to an alarming average of two women…
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TW: mentally challenged girl gang-raped by six men in Kasur
On Wednesday, the police in Kasur arrested six men for the brutal gang rape of a mentally challenged teenaged girl found unconscious by her mother in the basement of a private restaurant. In the case filed at the Kot Radha Kishan police station, the mother revealed that her daughter had gone out of the house,…
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Pakistani family arrested for torturing daughter-in-law, forcing her to drink engine oil
A Pakistani man and four of his family members in Britain have been sentenced to years in prison after forcing his wife to become a house slave, subjecting her to cruelty and torture from October 2017 to April 2019. The husband, Mohammed-Shuaib Arshid, brought his wife from Pakistan to the UK, after an arranged marriage,…
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Daska motorway rape case: Woman takes back statement, says she was not raped
A case was registered against a National Highways and Motorway Police (NH&MP) police inspector at the Daska Saddar police station for allegedly raping a woman. However, the woman has now taken back her complaint saying that she was not raped. The First Information rape (FIR) stated that the woman who belonged to Lahore, went to…
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Woman murders tutor, after crime shows spike her ‘curiosity’
Jung Yoo-Jung of South Korea posed as a student to murder her tutor with whom she had scheduled an online consultation. Yoo-Jung signed up on an online app by posing as the concerned mother of a daughter who was looking for a suitable English tutor. After connecting with another woman who was in her 20s,…
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It’s all about self-love: 77-year-old Ohio woman marries herself
Dorothy Fedeli, or Dottie, of Ohio, has married herself over the weekend. Fedeli is an American woman who was living alone since divorce after nine years of marriage and was living a single life since the past 44 years. Fideli is a resident at the O’Bannon Terrace Retirement Home. The mother of three and grandmother…