Masooma Ranalvi, Shabana Diler and Lakshmi Anantnarayan
Mumbai, Pune and Bengaluru
Women's rights activists, who conducted a survey on khatna in four states, which proved for the first time that the practice was prevalent in the Bohra community 
In December 2017, the Ministry for Women and Child Development submitted an affidavit to the Supreme Court stating: "At present there is no official data or study [by National Crime Records Bureau, etc.], which supports the existence of FGM in India." It proved to be an obstacle in the battle for a ban on the practice of khatna in India, a practice of cutting the clitoral hood.

Masooma Ranalvi's own experience with khatna was at the age of seven, when her grandmother took her 'for an outing' to Bhendi Bazaar. In a first floor room, she was pinned down by her granny and another woman, her panty pulled down while a blade cut a part of her genitals.