Scroll’s Rokibuz Zaman on Wednesday won a 2025 Laadli Media Award for Gender Sensitivity in the English language web news report category.

Zaman received the honour for his article about how a disc jockey from Guwahati was held captive by her family to stop her from getting married to a Kashmiri Muslim man. He highlighted that police forces in three states – Assam, Maharashtra and Meghalaya – did not file a first information report against the woman’s family members, despite her partner filing multiple complaints.

The citation for the award said that Zaman had been conferred the award for “spotlighting a chilling case of family control and police apathy in obstructing an inter-faith marriage, and for foregrounding the urgent need to uphold women’s agency and choice”.

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