NEW DELHI: Chief Justice B R Gavai on Saturday mentioned regardless of constitutional ensures, many women proceed to be tragically denied their elementary rights and even primary requirements for survival and face dangerous practices like feminine genital mutilation (FGM). Curiously, a PIL difficult the validity of FGM, practised amongst sure Muslims, is pending earlier than a ninejudge SC bench, which can also be seized of the problem to alleged discriminatory practices in opposition to girls at Sabarimala, Agiyari of Parsi communities and mosques.Threats confronted by ladies now lengthen into the digital world, says CJIA a nationwide session on ‘Safeguarding the lady baby: in the direction of a safer and enabling atmosphere for her in India’ organised by juvenile justice committee headed by Justice B V Nagarathna, CJI B R Gavai mentioned, “This vulnerability exposes them (ladies) to disproportionately excessive dangers of sexual abuse, exploitation, & dangerous practices equivalent to FGM, malnutrition, sex-selective abortions, trafficking, and baby marriage in opposition to their will.” He mentioned development in expertise, although empowering, has given rise to new vulnerabilities for the feminine baby. “Threats confronted by younger ladies are not confined to bodily areas, they lengthen into the digital world. From on-line harassment, cyberbullying, and digital stalking to misuse of private information and deep faux imagery, the challenges have advanced in each scale and class,” the CJI mentioned. Calling upon establishments, coverage makers & enforcement authorities to understand realities of presentera challenges, he mentioned expertise should function a software for liberation moderately than exploitation. “Safeguarding the lady baby at present means securing her future in lecture rooms, workplaces, and on each display she encounters,” he mentioned. Justice Nagarathna mentioned, “A younger lady in India might be mentioned to be a really equal citizen solely when she will be able to freely aspire to do something that her male counterpart does and obtain the identical high quality of help and sources to take action, dealing with no limitations particular.”