Here’s your wrap of news for the week gone by: A 22-year-old Dalit youth was reportedly assaulted by a group of men in rural Ahmedabad on Sunday night allegedly for “sporting a moustache”. Three accused have been detained in this connection, police said. According to police, an FIR was lodged against six named and four unnamed people under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (SC/ST) Prevention of Atrocities Act after the incident. The victim was admitted to Shiv Hospital on late Sunday night after he suffered head injury in the attack, police said. The government, in response to WhatsApp moving the Delhi High Court against new rules that would require it to break end-to-end encryption, said that it respects the Right to Privacy and has no intention to violate it. At the same time, it said compliance requirement is necessary for public interest and identifying the first originator of messages leading to crimes. Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union minister for Electronics, IT and law, in a statement stressed that according to all established judicial dictum, no fundamental right, including the right to privacy, is absolute and it is subject to reasonable restrictions. A sessions court in Goa while acquitting journalist Tarun Tejpal in a 2013 rape case questioned the complainant woman's conduct, holding that she did not exhibit any kind of "normative behaviour" such as trauma and shock which a victim of sexual assault might show. In her 527-page judgment delivered on May 21, which was made available late Tuesday night, sessions court judge Kshama Joshi said the victim's actions such as "proactively" sending messages to the accused about her location in the aftermath of the alleged sexual assault did not support her "narrative of extreme implausibility". The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices to the Centre and the states over allegations of “poor working conditions” of ASHA workers in the rural areas across the country. It has observed that the allegations of “poor working conditions”, if true, raise very crucial issues as the entire health management system of the vast rural population across India depends upon these ASHA workers. “The NHRC has taken cognisance of a complaint that the ASHA (Accredited Social Health Activist) workers are not getting their dues and safety equipment despite being working on the frontline during the COVID-19 pandemic in the rural areas across the country,” a statement said. Weeks after Actress Munmun Dutta used a casteist slur, another actress has repeated it and is now being called out on social media. Yuvika Chaudhary has apologised for using the word - a colloquial reference to a lower-caste community - in a video, claiming, just as Ms Dutta did, that she did not know what it meant. Like Munmun Dutta, Chaudhary also used the word in the context of her appearance ----------------------------------------------------------------- Follow Feminism In India: Website: https://www.feminisminindia.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/feminisminindia Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/feminisminindia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/feminismini... Telegram: https://t.me/feminisminindia Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/cjuLbv
