Law's labour lost
Updated On: 30 July, 2009 08:37 AM IST | | Daipayan Halder
When Bhanwari Devi was gangraped in 1992 in a forgettable Rajasthan village, her only hope for justice was the court of law
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When Bhanwari Devi was gangraped in 1992 in a forgettable Rajasthan village, her only hope for justice was the court of law. She couldn't expect help from her village panchayat as it was on the instruction of the village elders that she was raped as punishment for speaking out against child marriages. But what Bhanwari, a Dalit, had not discounted for was the biases of men of law.
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