No history of gender justice laws in India can be written without drawing a direct, scarred line from the brutal assault on Bhanwari Devi in 1992 to the gut-wrenching tragedy of the 2012 Delhi gang ...

It was a case that jolted Rajasthan and dominated the headlines: the disappearance and murder of Bhanwari Devi, an auxillary nurse, in 2011 that unravelled a crime of sex blackmail and videotape. And ...

In 1992 a young woman, Bhanwari Devi, was allegedly gang-raped near her village of Bhateri, some 40 miles from Jaipur, capital of the Indian state of Rajasthan. The incident has to be couched in ...

Four months after she disappeared from her home in Rajasthan, the CBI on Wednesday claimed to have cracked the Bhanwari Devi case with the arrest of Kailash Jakhar, who allegedly disposed of her body.

Poor and illiterate, Bhanwari Devi doesn't have a cellphone. She doesn't use hashtags. She hadn't heard of India's burgeoning #MeToo movement until a human rights worker visited her rural farming ...