For almost a decade now, the National Crime Records Bureau has registered “love affairs”as the fastest rising cause for murders in the country. The Sonam Raghuvanshi story, which has shocked the nation, has reaffirmed a new and brutal trend: women who are willing to take the extreme step of murder to escape an unsuited marriage
A judge’s comment blaming a rape survivor has sparked national outrage and led to the apex court’s intervention—and re-ignited urgent questions about gender bias, judicial accountability, and a deepening crisis in one of India’s most prominent High Courts