In Jharkhand violence against women are rampantly prevalent still there are more serious crimes against women prevails which is different from other states.

Sexual Harassment: - Sexual harassment ranges from teasing and molestation to violent sexual abuse. Women continued to be victim of sexual abuse in Jharkhand total number reported was just 2nd to Assam. It is a subject on which women across all class and age groups can be readily mobilized. In many areas powerful and upper caste groups often target poor Dalit women. Sexual abuse and other forms of violence are often used to inflict political lessons and to crush dissent. Criminal law does not use the term sexual harassment but speaks instead of outraging the modesty of a woman.

 Rape: - It is the most violent, abrupt and physically painful instance of male aggression. At the physical level, it represents an invasion of person; at the psychological, it results often in deep trauma, shame and guilt. Marital rape is excluded from the definition except when it is committed on a girl below 12 years of age. In addition, although the law prohibits evidence on the antecedents of the accused, it applies a different yardstick for women when such antecedents are often brought into prove cases against the woman. Rape is punishable under law with minimum years of seven years but the courts have the power to reduce sentences which they usually do. 753 cases are recorded in 2005. In April- November 2011, 592 cases are recorded as per the Jharkhand police.
Dowry & Dowry Deaths :- Dowry deaths as being one where a woman dies of burns or other injuries within seven years of her marriage and there is evidence of cruelty and harassment by the husband or any relative of her husband , “ for or in connection with any demand for dowry “Harassment in itself can be cause for considerable agony , anguish and trauma for married women whereas the Cruelty may cause a women to commit suicide or ‘cause grave injuries or danger of life , limb or health’ , whether mental or physical of the women and harassment related to property demands. However, Dowry is not prevalent in tribal but in other class of society, it is predominant problem. This is only the reason why girls are not desired and there is the craving for the boy child. Having price of Rs. 50,000- Rs.2,00,000 (even in poor’s) is given to the groom as Tilak. If not given marriage doesn’t take place. Jharkhand stands 17th among states for crime against women to 257 dowry cases were recorded in 2005. Only in the month July 2011, 34 dowry death case has taken place as per the Jharkhand police Data.

Witchcraft/ Witch hunting: – Women in Jharkhand continued to be targeted as “witches”. Many of the alleged witches were meted out inhuman and degrading treatment. In the tribal belt of Jharkhand the incidence of witchcraft is very common. In a majority of the cases, it is found the real motive of the killers was to grab property or to settle personal scores with the victim family. In order to garner support for their nefarious activities, villager’s particularly influential people brand female member of a particular family as a witch so that they could get the support of their co-villagers in hounding out or killing the victims’ family. The villagers believe that the women branded as witch are responsible for the illness, death, and drought and desire that is overwhelming the lives of the communities’ women. In April- November 2011 total 32 cases are recorded as per the Jharkhand police.

Caste & Class Conflicts:- In Jharkhand caste politics play a very important role in any violence. In this state not only the number of castes and sub castes is very large, but the politicization of each caste or caste group has left specific imprint on the political process of the State. In fact, the politics has been characterized by a fourfold division – forward – castes, backward-castes, harijan and tribals. Narrowness of caste feeling has contributed a lot to the occurrence of violence in the society. The feeling of casticism and the awareness among the low and the middle classes has mainly led to caste-conflict and tensions. The class conflicts depends on the process of production and the economic infra-structure. The society has been clearly divided into two classes. The haves and the have nots. The awareness amongst the have nots has been broken the old relational norms and they are ready to get their economic positions and other rights in society by hook or crook. In fact it has opened a new vista in the field of violence and it is the women who are the ultimate victims.

Communal Violence: – Communal violence is more visible in urban areas as compared to caste violence taking place in rural areas, though with its acceleration in recent years, it may spread to rural areas also. Earlier it was generally thought that riots takes place between the Hindu and the Muslim communities. But the recent development of attacks on minorities may take the serious shape of violence.

Domestic Violence: – The term domestic violence is wide and encompasses in its scope the types of violence resorted to within the home. The overwhelming majority of victims of domestic violence are woman. Domestic violence not only includes conduct which amount to cruelty on a woman by her husband or any of his relative but also includes any act which is unbecoming of the dignity of the woman. The woman are brutally beaten or abused by her husband or in-laws.

Trafficking of women: - Trafficking in women and children is one of the worst and most brazen and abuses of human rights. Trafficking is the legal or illegal moment of women and children by force or through other forms of coercion for the purpose of exploitation and for the consideration of economic and other benefits. Migration, especially illegal migration though distinct and separate is integrally connected to trafficking. Trafficking is a modern forms of slavery which forces a Jharkhand’s (Jharkhand is a source point of trafficking) women for the purpose of the prostitutions and domestic works in metro cities.

There are some cases of women sexual violence intervened by HRLN, such as Moushmi rape case in which A student of Air Hostess Academy, Mousumi 17 aged had allegedly sustained fatal injuries on the first day of her hospitality training at Hotel Sonnet’s laundry section in the morning of May 9, 2009. Her scarf had reportedly got trapped in the roller press, injuring her neck but the fact is not so. The Supreme Court ordered to CBI for enquiry again the case but the CBI didn’t get the exact fact.
In my early days of starting of my career in the field of legal advocacy i intervened in some cases which i would like to share as on the 20th of October 2009, The BBC carried a news item entitled ‘Village Witches Beaten in India’, detailing how five women from Deonagar District in Jharkhand state were paraded naked, beaten and forced to eat human excrement by villagers after being branded as witches. Six days later, on the 26th of October 2009, the Hindustan Times carried another news article entitled ‘The Lost Case of Witches’, reporting that another resident of Jharkhand state was branded as a witch because of her refusal to have sexual relations with some influential people in her village. In the same month, on the 16th of October 2009, a woman named ‘Shama Parveen’, a resident of Dhanbad District in Jharkhand sought legal assistance after she had been branded as a witch, thrown out of her village, and beaten within an inch of her life. In light of these alarming incidents, a team of lawyers and social activists researched and investigated the issue of witch hunting in the state of Jharkhand. This article is the product of those investigations.
Another big problem of our society is violation against child which is increasing as inflation of particular product. Child Labour is such kind of issue which is increasing at an alarming rate. The people especially industrialist, businessman and shopkeeper etc appoints the children as an employee and forced them to work with a very less wage. Many children around the world face a similar scenario when they are forced to work and provide by their family instead of sending them to school. As the Government of India made a law which provide a free and compulsory education to all the children of the age of Six to Fourteen year in such manner as all the State and various policy taken out for the poor children such as Government Schools, Colleges, many NGOs, Anganwadi in which even food, clothes are provided to poor children free of cost and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan etc. But then also people didn’t ever put their eye on law and always try to avoid the law and appoints the children’s as an employee. This issue of child labor demonstrates that ideals such as the innocent and carefree life that children in most industrialized nations are able to enjoy do not ever enter in the poorer section of the world. Children work under abhorrent conditions; those that work in looms become “disabled with eye damage, lung disease and stunted growth as they grow older. As we had seen many rag pickers in the slum street mostly of them are children, these all are mostly because of poverty as well as forced from their family.