Sexual violence against women in India

[Nova]

17-year-old raped by two in Delhi on December 31 night

NEW DELHI: Just hours before Nirbhaya's ashes were immersed in the Ganga, a 17-year-old girl studying in class XI of a prominent south Delhi school was allegedly sedated and raped by two men at a New Year's party in the upscale Safdarjung Enclave area of south Delhi, police sources told TOI on Tuesday. The two accused, who work in leading IT companies, were arrested late at night after the girl approached the police. They live in Sarojini Nagar with their families. Both are in their late 20s. While one is a computer engineer with an IT company, the other works in the HR department of a blue-chip tech and consulting multinational, an officer said. The accused were produced in Saket court on Tuesday afternoon and later sent to Tihar jail. The whole operation was kept under wraps by the police. TOI attempted to call senior police officers to confirm the report and also sent text messages but got no response. Sources in Delhi Police revealed that the girl had said in her statement that one of the accused had befriended her on a social networking site a few months ago. The accused had expressed his wish to meet the victim several times and use to chat with her online. On New Year's Eve, the accused convinced the girl to meet at a south Delhi market after which he coaxed her to accompany him in his car to an undisclosed location. As per the girl`s statement, the accused gave her a drink which was laced with a heavy dose of sedatives after which she began to feel dizzy. The girl alleged that the accused then took turns to rape her inside the flat and then left her alone. They even threatened her with dire consequences if she disclosed the incident to anyone. However, the girl managed to flee from their clutches after the accused left her alone and went out. She rushed to Safdarjung Enclave police station after taking an auto and reported the incident to the cops. The stunned cops immediately formed six teams and dispatched them to various locations on the basis of the information provided by the victim. The operation was supervised by the joint commissioner of police southern range, Vivek Gogia and DCP south Chhaya Sharma, the source said. The raiding teams were being led by additional DCP south P S Kushwah. Meanwhile, the girl`s medical examination was conducted at Safdarjung Hospital which confirmed rape, a source said. The girl was provided with medical help and counseling and a case of outraging a woman`s modesty and criminal intimidation was registered on the basis of her statement. The call records of the victim helped cops get the location of the accused and one of the teams nabbed the two and placed them under arrest. During interrogation, the accused accepted their involvement before the police and confessed to having lured the girl on pretext of meeting on New Years Eve, police said. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/New-year-old-shame-17-year-old-raped-by-two-in-Delhi-on-December-31-night/articleshow/17848610.cms

Educated retards are raping now? Delhi is a curse. :(( I go on TOI to read some news and this is headlines for the new year. :facepalm: These young Indians are so sex starved. What can't they just sit at home and jerk off to some porn. At this rate, it woudn't be a bad idea to create "The Great Delhi rape thread".

[Stuge]

we seriously need tough laws to deal with it and quick justice is required .. really .

[Tiger-Don]

Can we make a thread of where all the rape news from all over the thread goes...cuz there's too many rape threads being opened@

[Clarke]

The CJI did inaugurate a fast track court, lets see if that gets things rolling.

[CandyFloss]

http://m.timesofindia.com/city/noida/Class-X-girl-gang-raped-in-moving-car-in-Noida/articleshow/17798298.cms

Class X girl gang-raped in moving car in Noida Dec 28, 2012, 08.29PM IST TNN[ Purusharth Aradhak ] NOIDA: A class X student was allegedly gang raped by her uncles and cousins in Greater Noida on Friday. What is more shocking is that the victim has alleged that the police tried to hush up the entire incident and were forcing the victim and her family to come to a compromise with the accused. Also, The accused's car with tinted glass kept moving in several arterial roads in the city but no policemen stopped the car. It was only when the locals staged a protest against police inaction, that the police lodged an FIR. The village panchayat also pressurized the victim's family for compromise. The victim lives with her family in Chaysa village while she studies in an inter college in a nearby village. The victim was kidnapped on Wednesday morning when she was going to her school. The accused in a car stopped the victim and pulled her in the car. The accused reportedly put a handkerchief laced with sedative which put the girl in an unconscious state. The girl was found in an unconscious state near a railway track in Dadri later in the evening on Wednesday. The family came to know about the incident after a local informed the family. When the victim regained consciousness, she narrated that two uncles and cousins allegedly kidnapped and then raped her. SP (rural) Ashok Kumar said that the family initially had alleged that their girl was kidnapped and thrashed. "On the basis of complaint we had registered an FIR now family also alleged that the victim was also raped. Henceforth we sent the girl for medical examination. Initial report of medical examination suggests that there were no external injury marks on the private part but final report is not here yet. We will also add rape charges in the FIR," Kumar said So far no accused has been arrested but manhunt has been lauched to nab the culprits. Meanwhile the victim's family was reportedly pressurized by the local panchyat and police for settlement. The family is demanding stringent action against the culprits. On Friday the victim's family members and supporters also staged the protest demanding early arresting of the accused. The incident raised questions on the inadequate law and order in the region.

Declare Delhi the rape capital of India

[DomainK]

Sexual violence is not a cultural phenomenon in India - it is endemic everywhere

We donÃÕ know the name of the 23-year-old student who was raped and killed on a city bus in Delhi. We do know that, after getting on a bus home after watching a film with a friend, she was tortured so badly that she lost her intestines. Six people including the bus driver have been arrested; they have been widely denounced as ÅÂnimals on social media. ItÃÔ always comforting to think despite everything that the 20th century should have taught us that those who commit vile acts are sub-human, are not quite like us, so we can create emotional distance from them. But it was thinking, feeling, living human men who committed this rape, however nauseating it is to accept. The death of a woman popularly named Damini ÅÍightning in Hindi has provoked thousands to take to IndiaÃÔ streets, furious at endemic and unchecked violence against women. Some have been met with police batons, tear gas and water cannon. But, in the West, DaminiÃÔ death has triggered a different response: a sense that this is an Indian-specific problem. ŵhe crime has highlighted the prevalence of sex attacks in India, says the Daily Telegraph; Ūndia tries to move beyond its rape culture, says Reuters. Again, itÃÔ comforting to think that this is someone elseÃÔ problem, a particular scandal that afflicts a supposedly backward nation. It is an assumption that is as wrong as it is dangerous. Rape and sexual violence against women are endemic everywhere. Shocked by what happened in India? Take a look at France, that prosperous bastion of European civilisation. In 1999, two then-teenagers named only as Nina and Stephanie were raped almost every day for six months. Young men would queue up to rape them, patiently waiting for their friends to finish in secluded basements. After a three-week trial this year, 10 of the 14 accused left the courtroom as free men; the other four were granted lenient sentences of one year at most. Shocked? Again, let us Brits not get all high and mighty, either. Amnesty International conducted a poll in the United Kingdom a few years ago. Only four per cent of respondents thought that the number of women raped each year exceeded 10,000. But according to the GovernmentÃÔ Action Plan on Violence Against Women and Girls, 80,000 women are raped a year, and 400,000 women are sexually assaulted. It is a pandemic of violence against women that given its scale is not discussed nearly enough. All rape is violence by definition, but particularly horrifying incidents take place here, too. Exactly a year ago, one woman was raped by 21-year-old Mustafa Yussuf in central Manchester; shortly afterwards a passer-by who the rape survivor thought was coming to help raped her again as she lay on the floor. Or take 63-year-old Marie Reid, raped and savagely murdered earlier this year by an 18-year-old boy she had treated like a ÅÈrandson? ItÃÔ important to clarify that most rapes in India or elsewhere are not carried out by strangers waiting in alleys to pounce on women. It is mostly by people known to the rape survivor or victim; often someone they trust. It is a concept that the law itself took a long time to recognise, which is why until 1991 it was legal to rape your wife. Other myths are even more disturbing. The Amnesty poll found that a third of Britons believed a woman acting flirtatiously was partly or completely to blame for being raped, while over a quarter found women who were wearing revealing clothes or were drunk shared responsibility. This victim-blaming was echoed by a judge at Caernarfon Crown Court a few weeks ago, who told the rapist: Å´he let herself down badly. She consumed far too much alcohol and took drugs, but she also had the misfortune of meeting you. A Thames Valley Police poster combating underage drinking featured a young woman being attacked underneath the headline Å©er mum bought her the cider? If we are to defeat rape, we have to understand where it comes from and that means linking it to a broader continuum of violence against women. According to the GovernmentÃÔ own estimates, one million women in England and Wales are victims of domestic violence every year. Those punches, slaps, kicks and bile-filled screams are happening all around us yes, undoubtedly on our own streets. A quarter of women will face this abuse at some point in their life and horrifyingly two women will be murdered by their current or former male partner each week. ItÃÔ not just the overt aggression. ItÃÔ the sexual harassment and objectification of women by men that provide fertile ground for this violence. In a poll by End Violence Against Women this year, 41 per cent of women aged between 18 and 34 had experienced unwanted sexual attention in London. Some men may regard a few ÅËokes about rape as a bit of harmless banter, but it all helps normalise violence against women. As a country, we still donÃÕ take rape survivors seriously. A 2009 study revealed that Britain has the lowest conviction rate of 33 European countries: itÃÔ a shockingly pathetic 6.5 per cent. Survivors often struggle with a misplaced sense of shame, of somehow bringing it on themselves, of fear; an all-too pervasive sense of victim-blaming discourages them from coming forward and having to facing down their attacker. If any good is to come from the horrors of the Jimmy Savile scandal, it must be that these voices are taken far more seriously. But although the voices of women must be heard above all else, men must speak out too. ItÃÔ really important that we show solidarity with women, educate each other and challenge prejudice in our ranks. In the US and Australia there are more flourishing movements of men against sexual violence, such as Men Can Stop Rape. But there are similar campaigning groups in Britain such as the White Ribbon Campaign and Respect: they have a crucial role to play, too. There is nothing inevitable about violence against women, here or anywhere. Struggle by courageous women and their allies has already had an impact. But the worst thing we can do is allow our horror at what happened on that Delhi bus to make us complacent. Let the death of Damini inspire everyone everywhere to defeat this horror once and for all.

[DomainK]

The reason for posting this article is not to downplay what is happening in India. We need some serious changes in our society regardless of what is happening abroad. The point is that the problem is widespread in even some developed countries. It's not just Delhi, it's not just India - women are suffering in the same way even in places we imagine as safe. I hope the protests in India infects these countries as well. It's time people stood up and confronted this evil, no matter what the country is.

[The Dark Horse]

Yes, another article about CHina-> In China, Delhi gang rape spurs online debate, then censorship Chinese authorities have moved to censor news about the Delhi gang rape and ensuing protests after the incident triggered a heated debate online between State media outlets and pro-democracy voices. The incident and the protests in New Delhi in recent days have received wide attention in China. While the brutal attack was initially highlighted by Communist Party-run outlets as indicative of the failures of India’s democratic system to ensure stability, the following protests in New Delhi triggered calls from pro-reform bloggers for the Chinese government to learn from India and to allow the public to express its voice. The rape case was one of the most discussed topics in Chinese microblogs over the past week, prompting thousands of posts and comments. By Sunday, however, the authorities appeared to move to limit the debate: on Monday, a search for the topic triggered a message on Sina Weibo – a popular Twitter-equivalent used by more than 300 million people – saying the results could not be displayed according to regulations. The message is usually seen as an indicator of a topic being censored by the authorities. Hu Xijin, controversial editor of the nationalistic party-run Global Times, argued last week in a widely criticised message to his three million followers on Weibo that the case had shown the limits of rule of law in a democracy. “For a backward society, no law can help,” he said. “India calls itself the world’s biggest democratic State, but it is also one of the most disorderly. In the 1960s, China and India had the same level of development, but now China’s GDP is three times India’s.” Another commentary published in the newspaper on Monday echoed Mr. Hu’s views, describing India as “an inefficient and unequal democracy.” “The Indian democratic system seemingly can’t solve these problems but provides legitimacy for [rulers]. India’s democracy is now manipulated by a small number of elite and interest groups … Efficient democracy means more than electoral politics.” That Communist Party media outlets and academics often point to India’s “disorderliness” as an outcome of the democratic system and to justify one-party rule is a sore point among many liberal Chinese who are pushing for democratic reforms. The government-run Beijing Youth Daily in a Weibo message said “the current problem of India is fundamentally the problem of Indian democracy, which is reflected on the weak regime and the invalid social management.” One Internet user in northeastern Jilin responded that “at least India allows protest. If such things happen in China, will we have a large scale protest?” Feng Zetang, a blogger in Guangzhou, added, referring to a case in Henan last year where local officials were found to have raped school students: “Chinese officials harass female children; however the government could not care less.” Bruce Wang, another microblogger, wrote that “China Central Television [the official channel] intensively reports the rape case in India. But please don’t turn a blind eye to our own country’s sexual harassment of children!” Kai-Fu Lee, former founding president of Google China, who has 24 million followers on Weibo and maintains a hugely popular blog, wrote that “the system [in India] allows the people to take to the street and to expose the scar, so the government has to face it squarely”. “If the scar is hid firmly,” he added, cryptically, “it will instead fester and become inflamed, and by that time, it would be too late to face it.” http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/in-china-delhi-gang-rape-spurs-online-debate-then-censorship/article4259878.ece

[rageaddict]

According to the GovernmentÃÔ own estimates, one million women in England and Wales are victims of domestic violence every year. And I thought that only Indian men like to beat their women . Tsk Tsk . How is this happening on such a large scale in countries where men and women have an equal status ?

[surajmal]

Indian Culture = Hindu Culture (for the most part). So when they are bashing India, they are actually bashing Hindus. It has been their basic tactic since Max Mueller appeared 150 years ago. Allows the Church to raise money for their proselytizing campaign in India and Social Scientists and Historians to rework and rewrite the existing narrative of India. Basically its Hindus bad, Goras good while seculars cheer from the sideline.

[rageaddict]

Indian Culture = Hindu Culture (for the most part). So when they are bashing India' date=' they are actually bashing Hindus. It has been their basic tactic since Max Mueller appeared 150 years ago. Allows the Church to raise money for their proselytizing campaign in India and Social Scientists and Historians to rework and rewrite the existing narrative of India. Basically its [i']Hindus bad, Goras good while seculars cheer from the sideline.

Ager thoda dum hai en secular cheer leadero main to Jara Burkha/Veil bhi ban karwa ke dikhae na India main . us grey area main jaane se enki etni phat kyu jaati hai .

[surajmal]

Ager thoda dum hai en secular cheer leadero main to Jara Burkha/Veil bhi ban karwa ke dikhae na India main . us grey area main jaane se enki etni phat kyu jaati hai .

Owaisi video appeared 10 days ago on youtube and they have tried everything to bury and ignore it. There is a reason they are called pseudo-seculars and not seculars. Look at the remark from chew tiya in charge Rajdeep Sardesai ‏@sardesairajdeep India at 9: Should anti-rape law be named after girl who was raped? Is Owaisi's brand of politics dangerous for Hindu-Muslim relations? :hysterical: No **** sherlock.

[EnterTheVoid]

Wow, words failed me.

[surajmal]

20-30 yr olds are horn dogs. Not much else to say.

[Clarke]

The reason for posting this article is not to downplay what is happening in India. We need some serious changes in our society regardless of what is happening abroad. The point is that the problem is widespread in even some developed countries. It's not just Delhi, it's not just India - women are suffering in the same way even in places we imagine as safe. I hope the protests in India infects these countries as well. It's time people stood up and confronted this evil, no matter what the country is.

This brings up another important point: our police & judicial system need major reform to be effective by any measure. But they're far better in all Western/developed countries, and that does not deter the amount of crime there. So is their education system. So what else can be done to prevent crimes other than law & order and general education ? Ye merge kyun kiya, this thread/post isn't about India :mad:

[The Dark Horse]

Why was this thread merged

[Anonymous]

20-30 yr olds are horn dogs. Not much else to say.

what? If thats the case, there would've been millions of rape cases given that the vast majority of our population is under 30. Reeks of hypocrisy after you say western nations bash Hindus using the excuse of such incidents.

[surajmal]

what? If thats the case' date=' there would've been millions of rape cases given that the vast majority of our population is under 30. Reeks of hypocrisy after you say western nations bash Hindus using the excuse of such incidents.[/quote'] You must be a one stupid cat if you think making laws (no matter how stringent) is going to make rape disappear. Realistic goal can only be accountability. Anything more and you are living in a pipe dream. And I'm not making some sort of revelation when I say 20-30 yr olds are horn dogs. It is a fact.

[Anonymous]

You must be a one stupid cat if you think making laws (no matter how stringent) is going to make rape disappear. Realistic goal can only be accountability. Anything more and you are living in a pipe dream. And I'm not making some sort of revelation when I say 20-30 yr olds are horn dogs. It is a fact.

Where was I talking about laws Einstein? stop painting everyone with the same brush. If you ask the girls here, they will tell you that a middle aged or even worse an old guy are far more dangerous especially on public transport. Its the cultural mindset prevalent in our country and that needs changing...

[surajmal]

Where was I talking about laws Einstein? stop painting everyone with the same brush. If you ask the girls here, they will tell you that a middle aged or even worse an old guy are far more dangerous especially on public transport. Its the cultural mindset prevalent in our country and that needs changing...

Culture is organic. You can't (rather you shouldn't) artificially affect its direction. If you try to do so you may end up with something even worse i.e. Nazi Germany or Cultural revolution in China. Good and effective laws are your only tools.