Published on : 29 Oct 2025, 3:28 am 2 min read

The Delhi High Court recently quashed a 17-year-old attempt-to-murder case against academic Madhu Kishwar [Prof Madhu Kishwar v State of NCT of Delhi & Ors] .

The first information report (FIR) was registered against Kishwar in 2008 on a complaint filed by the members of the Basoya family while she (Kishwar) was clicking pictures in the Sewa Nagar Street Vendors’ market for a project run by her organisation, Manushi.

Kishwar had alleged that the Basoya family runs a string of illegal businesses in the area.

In an order passed on October 16, Justice Amit Mahajan termed the FIR “maliciously motivated counterblast” to an earlier case in which Kishwar had accused the complainant (Basoya family members) of thrashing her while she

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