WOMEN IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES
In 1992, Bhanwari Devi, an administration social specialist in the north Indian province of Rajasthan, was assaulted before her better half by higher position neighbors infuriated by her endeavors to stop a youngster marriage in their loved ones. quity evaded Bhanwari Devi. A lower court cleared the blamed for assault and indicted them with lesser offenses for which they served nine months in prison. The allure is as yet forthcoming in the state's High Court today, after 28 years. However, public shock and activism catalyzed by her trial made ready for new legitimate securities against lewd behavior in the working environment for a large number of Indian ladies.After state specialists, her boss, rejected obligation since she had been assaulted in her own fields, activists recorded a public interest request in the Supreme Court requesting that "working environments should be made safe for ladies and that it should be the obligation of the business to safeguard ladies worker at each progression."