50 years after her rape changed law, ‘Mathura’ lives in hunger | Nagpur News – The Times of India

50 years after her rape changed law, ‘Mathura’ lives in hunger | Nagpur News – The Times of India

Unable to read and write, and with her fingerprints not registering due to age, Mathura can’t access welfare schemes GADCHIROLI: More than five decades after her rape inside a Maharashtra police station sparked protests across India and forced the rewriting of the country’s sexual assault laws, the woman known to the world only as ‘Mathura’…

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Maharashtra maoist chief surrenders: Mallojula Venugopal Rao, 62 cadres lay down arms ending 50-year insurgency; last Naxal stronghold falls | Nagpur News – The Times of India

Maharashtra maoist chief surrenders: Mallojula Venugopal Rao, 62 cadres lay down arms ending 50-year insurgency; last Naxal stronghold falls | Nagpur News – The Times of India

A file photo of Mallojula Venugopal Rao alias Sonu Bhupati. NAGPUR: Senior most guerrilla Mallojula Venugopal Rao, alias Sonu ‘Bhupati’, 69, the Central Committee powerhouse and politburo firebrand who had earlier appealed for a truce, surrendered at Gadchiroli police headquarters in Maharashtra on Tuesday with 62 cadres, signaling the end of state’s five-decade-long Maoist insurgency….

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