Shayari Bazar

The Gulabi gang is a group of women vigilantes and activists active across North India The gang was founded in 2006 by Sampat Pal Devi as a response to widespread domestic abuse and other violence against women Gulabis visit abusive husbands and beat them up with laathis (bamboo sticks) unless they stop abusing their wives In 2008 they stormed an electricity office in Banda district and forced officials to turn back the power they had cut in order to extract bribes They have also stopped child marriages and protested dowry and female illiteracy