Samina Kanchawala, DBWRF secretary

If those working on the first-of-its-kind study on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C), which was released in New Delhi last afternoon, had hoped for vindication, it doesn't seem to have come their way. The Dawoodi Bohra Women's Religious Freedom (DBWRF), a 65,000-strong body dedicated towards "conserving and guarding the cultural and religious rights of Bohra women", which calls itself the "Bohra women majority", has junked the findings of the study titled 'The Clitoral Hood a Contested Site: Khafz or FGM/C in India'.