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This chapter is an academic effort to look into the current nature and status of the various cybercrimes against women in India, their evidential aspects, their investigational aspects, and also their prevention aspects. It looks at the gender dimension of the escalating cyber abuses in India, before and during Covid-19. It tries to provide information inputs to theoreticians in Women’s Studies and law practitioners related to women’s rights.
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The author would like to express his sincere gratitude to Dr. Pichirikkat Bhaskaran Nayar, former faculty member of Lincoln University, UK, for his valuable inputs on cultural discourse, cross-cultural communication, feminism, and so on, and also to Mr. Loknath Behera IPS, the Director-General of Police and the State Police Chief of Kerala for sharing information on ‘Operation Paedophile-Hunt’ in Kerala.
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Polpaya Bhattathiripad, V. (2021). Cybercrimes Against Indian Women: Before and During COVID-19. In: George, I., Kuruvilla, M. (eds) Gendered Experiences of COVID-19 in India. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85335-8_13
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