Here’s your wrap of news for the week gone by: The centre's controversial citizenship law will start rolling once the COVID-19 vaccination is over, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Thursday, in an assurance to a community of Hindu immigrants in West Bengal ahead of elections. The CAA, which came into effect last January, had triggered widespread protests as many feared that coupled with the planned nationwide National Register of Citizens or NRC, it would result in lakhs of Muslims losing their citizenship. The Nirbhaya Fund, announced eight years ago to reduce violence against women, goes “underused” and underfunded, and is “predominantly slotted for services that don’t directly help the women”, a new report by NGO Oxfam India said. The new Oxfam report, published in February 2021, highlighted that since inception in 2013, the fund has received several annual additions, but it remains underfunded and underutilised. Activist Rona Wilson, accused in the Elgaar Parishad case, moved a petition in Bombay High Court Wednesday seeking quashing of the FIR and chargesheet filed against him, citing in support the report of a US-based digital consultant that says “incriminating evidence” found by investigators in his laptop were “planted”. Wilson’s petition referred to a report by Arsenal Consulting which concluded that his computer was “infected with a malware”, allegedly planted through an email in June 2016. Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra’s remarks over allegations of sexual harassment against former Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi, are at the center of the storm. Without naming the former CJI, Moitra said: “The sacred cow that was the judiciary is no longer sacred. It stopped being sacred the day a sitting chief justice of this country was accused of sexual harassment, presided over his own trial, cleared himself” Mahua Moitra faces a privilege motion over her remarks in parliament and sources say the ruling BJP decided to proceed with the motion after Mahua Moitra shared video clips on Wednesday of her controversial remarks in the Lok Sabha. Unregulated OTT content may soon become a thing of the past. Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar said the government will soon issue guidelines for the regulation of OTT platforms that will address issues such as sensitive content and added that a lot of suggestions and complaints on this have been received. Objectional content on OTT platforms includes sexual discrimination and abusive language, he said adding that the government should, without delay, implement the Internet regulations. ------------------------------------------------------------- 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
