SRINAGAR: A woman was found dead under mysterious circumstances in Karnah area of North Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Monday.
An official said that unidentified female body was spotted by some locals under mysterious conditions at Sulmanpadi Karnah following which police was informed.
He said that police rushed to the spot and took dead body into their custody for legal-medico formalities while identification is being ascertained.
Meanwhile inquest proceedings U/s 174 CRPC has been initiated. (KS)
The measure is the culmination of a long-running messaging campaign Republicans have built across the country directed at passing a “Women’s Bill of Rights.” And the GOP’s victory in Kansas may signal the success of their tactics as similar proposals get introduced or advance in Oklahoma, South Carolina, North Dakota and Tennessee.
Kansas House Republicans touted their override as a win for protecting women’s rights.
The chamber’s top lawmakers said in a statement that they “stand with women and girls in Kansas and their right to privacy, safety and dignity in single-sex spaces. Trading one group’s rights for another’s is never okay.”
Montana, where both chambers of the statehouse have cleared a bill that would also codify a definition of sex into law, is expected to join Kansas in the next few days.
“We saw they began with sports bans, but we know that the goal of the people targeting the trans community was never about sports — it was about eradicating trans people from public life,” Montana Rep. Zooey Zephyr, the first transgender woman elected to the state legislature, said in an interview.
Zephyr gained national attention this month for telling her GOP colleagues they would have blood on their hands for supporting bills that prohibit youth gender-affirming care. She was censured by the Montana state Legislature Wednesday after refusing to apologize for her remarks and hundreds of people protested her silencing at the state Capitol. The restrictions prevent her from speaking on the floor for the rest of the legislative session, though she will be able to vote remotely.
“Trans people exist,” Zephyr, a Democrat, told POLITICO. “Non-binary people exist, intersex people exist and you cannot legislate us out of existence.”
After being shut out of power in Washington, conservative women’s groups quickly turned their attention to state capitals, most of which are run by GOP majorities or supermajorities, having tested gender issues in a number of 2022 campaigns. These statehouse fights over codifying a binary definition of sex will also likely rattle school districts caught between conflicting state and federal laws that dictate which bathrooms and sports teams transgender students can access.
More than 20 states have laws restricting transgender students from playing on sports teams consistent with their gender identity, at least seven states block them from using facilities and more than 15 states bar transgender minors from accessing gender-affirming care.
The Kansas measure defines a female as someone “whose biological reproductive system is developed to produce ova.” It also specifies other terms, including “girl,” “woman,” and “mother.” A similar proposal backed by several conservative women’s groups was first introduced in May 2022 on the federal level and reintroduced this Congress in February.
“The Kansas bill would certainly be among the most restrictive ones that we’ve seen in the country — one of the most expansive, one of the most extreme and really just one of the most mean spirited and hurtful,” ACLU of Kansas Executive Director Micah Kubic said before the House vote. “School districts are probably one of the very first places where this bill and all of the other ones like it will show up.”
Republicans nationwide have been increasingly targeting transgender issues to rally their base, message on Capitol Hill and attract moderate women voters ahead of the 2024 elections.
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona was pressed by Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) to answer “what is a woman” during an April hearing about the Education Department’s fiscal 2024 budget. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) led the same line of questioning against Ketanji Brown Jackson during her nomination for the Supreme Court last year.
And in Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ rebuttal to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address, she described the president as “the first man to surrender his presidency to a woke mob that can’t even tell you what a woman is.”
House Republicans also used their slim majority to pass a bill to restrict transgender students from playing on women’s sports teams — a rebuke to the Biden administration’s Title IX athletics proposal unveiled in April.
The new rule would make categorical transgender sports bans illegal and allow transgender girls to play on girls sports teams, but with some limitations. The rule acknowledges competition levels, fairness and a school’s interest in preventing injuries especially in contact sports.
“Even if you look at Biden’s Title IX proposed rule on sports, there is a recognition that there are differences between men and women,” said May Mailman, senior legal fellow at the Independent Women’s Law Center, which has pushed for federal bills and the one in Kansas. “You can’t say women are deserving of protection, but we don’t know what women are.”
Women’s groups and conservative political leaders say the “bill of rights” laws are needed to protect sex-separated spaces like prisons and domestic violence shelters.
Lauren Bone, who served as legal director for the Women’s Liberation Front, which is backing the measures, said they are not meant to ostracize or harm people. She said there is a pressing need for definitions of sex and gender identity that people struggle to define, especially as lawmakers present legislation with the terms.
“This is codifying everybody’s definition that they already have in their head,” Bone said.
A similar bill is advancing in Montana, where the state legislature is finishing some procedural hurdles for the measure before sending it to Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte, who is expected to sign it over the objections of one of his sons who identifies as nonbinary.
Unlike Kansas’ proposal, the Montana bill is not rooted in the argument of protecting sex-separated spaces. Instead, LGBTQ advocates say the bill looks to advance and make permanent restrictions on transgender, nonbinary and intersex people that started with 2021 legislation from GOP state Sen. Carl Glimm that made it onerous for them to change their sex designation on their birth certificate. Glimm has said the bill is necessary because people conflate sex and gender.
Medical associations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association, support gender-affirming care for adolescents, which rarely, if ever, includes surgery for children. But Gianforte has pressed for legislation that would ban the use of public funds for gender-affirming care for minors, preferring they make the decision as adults.
If the state clears a binary definition of sex, the Montana ACLU said school districts and other agencies caught between conflicting state and federal laws could risk their federal funding.
“This bill would likely jeopardize $7.5 billion of federal funds — which is about half of Montana’s budget — because these definitions do not comport with federal regulations and the existing Civil Rights Act,” said Keegan Medrano, ACLU Montana’s director of policy and advocacy. “This impacts universities, schools and other elements where federal funds are currently being accessed by Montana.”
Civil rights organizations say if the legislation continues to spread across the country, transgender, nonbinary and intersex people’s existence is at risk, according to Liz King, senior education program director at the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, which represents more than 200 groups.
“There has been an effort to capitalize on fear mongering around otherness for a very long time,” King said. “And this is only the latest manifestation.”
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SRINAGAR: A 39-year-old woman was critically injured after being attacked by a black bear in Lolab area in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district this afternoon.
Shaheena Begum wife of Abdul Ahad Shah, a resident of Gangbugh Lolab was attacked by a black bear while she was busy working in her kitchen garden. The woman sustained grievous injuries in the incident and was immediately evacuated to SDH Sogam for treatment.
Quoting locals, GNS reported that a group of locals in the meantime rued the lackadaisical approach of Wildlife Department officials. “There are two black bears roaming in the human habitation for almost a week now and despite informing the Wildlife Department officials about this, no action has been taken so far”, they said.
“There is every apprehension that the presence of the bears may cost us precious lives if not neutralized timely”, they said adding “We again reiterate the authorities concerned to look into the matter to allay the terror created by the wild animal.”
Lucknow: The father and brother-in-law of a newly-married woman have been arrested for strangling her and making her drink toilet cleaner.
The woman was found naked in the bushes on the Lucknow-Delhi highway on Wednesday.
The accused had poured toilet cleaner on her face in order to disfigure her and conceal her identity.
SSP (Bareilly) Prabhakar Chowdhary said the woman, Munni Devi, a resident of Dhadha village under Shahi police station limits of Bareilly district, was found lying in an injured state under Fatehganj West police station./
The woman, was spotted by some passers-by who informed the police. She was rushed to a hospital where she is battling for life.
“Tota Ram, the father, and her elder sister’s husband, Dinesh, have been arrested for making her forcibly drink acid and throttling her. The accused committed the crime due to ‘social humiliation’ caused by the woman’s illicit relationship with another man,” the police official said.
The woman was unable to speak due to her burn injuries and confirmed her identity by writing her name on paper, after which the entire story behind the incident came to fore, said the officer.
Circle officer (Meerganj) informed media persons that Munni Devi was in a relationship with one Ajay Kumar for many years, but her family members did not approve of it.
Her father said she had eloped with Ajay Kumar twice in the past, added the CO.
He said the woman’s family forcibly got the woman married to one Devendra of Badaun on April 22 and she was shifted from Bareilly.
But she remained in touch with Ajay Kumar. The woman’s father stated she was even found talking to Ajay Kumar on phone when they reached there and was adamant on living with her lover despite getting married to another person, said the CO.
The CO said the woman’s father and brother-in-law took her along when Devendra expressed desire not to live with her.
Visakhapatnam: Visakhapatnam Police on Wednesday arrested a woman and recovered gold ornaments, worth lakhs, from his possession, police said.
According to Visakhapatnam City Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Crime G Naganna, a team was formed and a search operation was launched on Wednesday.
The team arrested Patti Durga from Ayyappa Nagar Road.
“Gold black beads garland, gold rope, and a gold pearl chain weighing 75 grams, among other items were recovered from her,” the officer said.
He said during interrogation, the arrested woman revealed that owing to her debt of Rs 9 lakh, an amount she borrowed for her ageing father’s treatment, she indulged in theft.
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Police on Wednesday demolished the house a man who allegedly shot dead a 22-year-old woman in broad daylight in Dhar district. The accused, who has been identified as Deepak Kumar (22), is yet to be arrested.
As per the police, the accused had fired twice at the victim from a very close range, one on her head and the other on her chest. The police said the accused was a jilted lover of the victim, who was following her for the last two year.
“Deepak was following the woman for the last two years. On Wednesday, he found her alone on the road and opened fire on her. He is still on the run and police teams have been formed to nab him. An award of Rs 10,000 has also been announced for any information that might lead the police to Deepak,” Dhar district Superintendent of Police, Manoj Kumar Singh, said.
The incident occurred at around 11 a.m. when the victim, who was a resident of Basant Vihar, had gone to a temple along with her friend.
Later on Wednesday evening, the police carried out a bulldozer operation and demolished the house of the accused.
Meanwhile, the opposition Congress has question the law and order situation in Madhya Pradesh, besides demanding a compensation for the victim’s family.
“The woman had earlier lodged a case of molestation against the accused. It is a matter of great concern that the government could not save the woman’s life,” Madhya Pradesh Congress President Kamal Nath said.
Riyadh: In an image that represented the highest meanings of humanity and human cohesion, a Saudi woman soldier appeared embracing a sleeping boy after his arrival at King Faisal Naval Base in Jeddah as part of the evacuations from Sudan.
An image circulated on social media showed a baby boy wearing a white and yellow shirt and shorts clinging to a Saudi Ministry of Defense soldier as she got off the ship.
Arabic channel Saudi Al-Ekhbariya published the video clip and captioned on it by saying, “A female employee of the Ministry of Defense embraces a child the moment he arrives in Jeddah as part of the Saudi evacuation from Sudan.”
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The soldier’s act of compassion has won praise from many social media users, who see the image as a representation of humanity and compassion at its best.
The Kingdom has been working for days to evacuate citizens and nationals from Sudan, against the background of the battles taking place between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
On Wednesday, the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that it had succeeded in evacuating about 2,148 people from Sudan. Of them, 114 are Saudi citizens, and 2,034 are from 62 nationalities; To translate its humanitarian and influential role globally.
Bareilly: In a shocking incident, a woman who had been married three days ago, was found in a naked condition with nearly 40 per cent burn injuries on the Delhi-Lucknow national highway in Bareilly.
The condition of the woman, 25, is said to be critical.
The doctors treating her said that attempts had been made to strangle the woman to death but she survived.
According to reports, the woman got married on April 22 but she returned to her maternal house the next day.
On Tuesday morning, she was found by some locals in the bushes near a medical college in the Fatehganj West area.
The woman somehow managed to give her contact details to the police who called her father.
Emergency medical officer Dr J.P. Maurya said, “She was brought to the ward by police with chemical burn injuries, possibly caused by acid, on her face, neck, arms and chest. There are marks on her neck which suggest that someone tried to strangle her. She was examined by a gynaecologist, ENT surgeon and burn specialist who referred her to a higher medical centre in Lucknow as her condition was deteriorating.”
Multiple teams have been deployed by Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Prabhakar Chaudhary to crack the case.
Rajkumar Agarwal, ASP (Bareilly rural), said, “She was found about 20 km from her house. We have questioned her husband, but he was unaware of the incident. Her father is yet to give a written complaint. We are also questioning a few suspects.”
A woman has been arrested on suspicion of premeditated murder after she was accused of poisoning a friend using cyanide in Ratchaburi, central Thailand, with police saying they are also investigating the circumstances of nine further deaths.
The accused, identified in Thai media as Sararath Rangsiwutthiporn, or Am, had travelled with her friend, Siriporn Khanwong, known as Koi, to make merit by releasing fish at a pier in Ratchaburi on 14 April.
Police said an autopsy had found cyanide in the victim’s body. They are investigating the deaths of nine more people known to Sararath.
Sararath, who was arrested on Tuesday morning, has not commented publicly on the accusations. Her lawyer told the broadcaster Channel 3 that such allegations were serious, and that evidence must be seen.
Surachate Hakparn, the assistant national police chief of the royal Thai police, said the accused was known to all of those who died, and that it was possible she had targeted them for financial reasons.
Surachate said police had identified 11 victims in total, including one person who survived. The survivor had gone to eat food with the defendant, he said. “The victim vomited and fainted, but she survived,” he said.
Surachate said the defendant denied all the charges. Autopsies had been carried out on three of the bodies, he said.
A report by Thai media said that items had been stolen from Siriporn, including two phones, two bags and money.
Recovering evidence from previous deaths that were considered suspicious would be challenging, Surachate said. “As no case was filed [at the time of such deaths] there wasn’t any investigation of crime scenes, or anything,” he said.
Surachate said police were not aware of any accomplice but that investigations would continue. Affected families were in contact with police, he said. “Some of them thought that their beloved died of natural causes. We will talk and find more links today,” he said.
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Hyderabad: A youth was bludgeoned to death with boulders by family members of a woman he was harassing, in Telangana’s Mancherial district on Tuesday.
Mahesh (24) was killed in broad daylight by three persons at Indaram village in Jaipur mandal of the district.
Mahesh was allegedly harassing a woman of the same village by uploading her private videos on social media.
The deceased was also responsible for the suicide of the woman’s husband.
According to villagers, Mahesh and the woman had an affair in the past. About six months ago, her family married her to another man.
To apparently take revenge, Mahesh uploaded some videos and pictures of intimate moments with the woman. Upset over this, the woman’s husband committed suicide.
After her husband’s death, the woman returned to her parents’ house. However, Mahesh again started harassing her by sharing the videos with others.
Unable to bear this any further, the woman’s family members killed him.
Police rushed to the village and launched a hunt for the assailants, who were absconding.
