New Delhi: National Family Health Survey-5 revealed that one-third of women in the court faced physical or sexual violence.

The report state that domestic violence has declined from 31.2% to 29.3% against women, however, age groups between 18 and 49 in the country experienced physical assault from the age of 15.

Shockingly, only about 14% of women brought up the issue before authorities who have experienced physical or sexual violence.

The survey shed light that 32% of married women between 18-49 years experienced physical, sexual, violence. In over 80% cases of violence against women, the accused is the husband, the survey revealed.

Meanwhile, the highest cases of violence against women reported in Karnataka at 48%, followed by Bihar, Telangana, Manipur and Tamil Nadu. Likewise, Lakshawdeep has the recorded least domestic violence at 2.1%.

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New Delhi: In a horrific incident, a woman police constable has reportedly gang-raped by three men in Madhya Pardesh’s Neemuch district, police said on Saturday.

Accused had also filmed the act and threatened to kill the victim, the police said.

According to the information, the incident took place early this month but 30-year-old filed a complaint on September 13 after which investigation was conducted into the matter and a case was registered against five people into the matter.

The accused included the mother of the main accused.

In her complaint, the woman told the police that she was raped by three people including main accused, his brother and another man at a birthday party and main accused’s mother also blackmailed her and a relative also threatened to kill her and tried to extort money from her.

“Main accused had befriended me on Facebook and had been interacting with me on WhatsApp since April. He invited me to his younger brother’s birthday party there he along with two other men raped me,” she told the police.

Anuradha Girwal, in-charge of the women police station that a case has been registered and further investigation is underway into the matter.

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