Arindam Sil, a distinguished Bengali filmmaker, has been suspended indefinitely by the Directors Association of Eastern India (DAEI) following serious allegations of sexual harassment. This suspension will remain in effect until the accusations are fully investigated and resolved. This move comes as part of a larger trend of addressing sexual misconduct in the Indian film […]
Before raping the young woman in Mohammadpur, Nazmul had picked up a woman (25) in March and molested her in the car. A case was registered in this regard at Mohammadpur police station on March 19. According to the police report, the woman lives with her family in Kalyanpur in the capital. On March 1, […]
The crimes range from so-called sextortion, in which predators demand money from victims to keep images private, to the misuse of AI technology to create deepfake videos and images. The problem is global, but research shows the United States is a particularly high-risk area, with one in nine men admitting to having at some point […]
These appear in police records only when cases are registered regarding incidents of oppression against women. Police headquarters records say a total of 16,000 to 22,000 cases were registered from 2018 to 2023. That means an average of 20,000 cases are registered every year. Only when incidents of atrocities are at their peak do they […]
He said the university's syndicate decided to suspend Shahid Emon and remove the department chairman from his post. The female student had become vocal about harassment following the suicide of JNU student Fairuz Sadaf Abantika, who died soon after accusing her classmate and an assistant proctor of mentally abusing her. The student of Film and […]
Both reports state that this environment of injustice has emerged under the influence of power and political patronage and has more or less become the norm. The matter of concern is that allegations of sexual harassment are made against teachers as much as students. Many of these teachers are relatively young. Although there is no […]
JU Cell documents revealed that victims filed 14 complaints between January, 2022 and March, 2024. Of them, 12 have been disposed of while two are under investigation. In the resolved incidents, various types of punishments were given to the accused. A JU student was expelled for six months and fined Tk 50,000 for harassing a […]
Abantika, a student of JNU's law department for the academic year 2017-18, hanged herself at her Cumilla residence around 10:00 pm on Friday night after accusing her classmate Amman and assistant proctor Deen Islam in a Facebook post. Hours after Abantika's death by suicide, massive protests broke out in the university and continued till Saturday […]
University authorities were forced to fire the assistant proctor and suspend the student to quell the agitation. Also, the university administration has formed a four-member committee to investigate the incident. A team of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested the teacher and the student from Dhaka on Saturday night.
Since the allegations were made a year ago, how was the evidence found now? In response to the question, the Additional Commissioner of DMP said that there is never any limit in the hearing of criminal cases. These can be brought for trial even after 50 years. When he was asked whether such allegations could […]
Ahead of the awards, French Culture Minister Rachida Dati condemned the “collective blindness” that has lasted “for years” in the industry in an interview with the magazine Le Film Français. Of Godrecht he said, “Creative freedom is absolute, but here we're not talking about art, we're talking about pedophilia.” Godreche, 51, has claimed that Doillon, […]