Several arrested after new gang rape in India

[newarkhiphop]

At least five men have been arrested over the rape of a passenger on a coach in India, police said, weeks after the gang-rape and murder of a student on a bus in New Delhi sparked nationwide protests.

The victim had boarded the service to her in-laws' home in the northern state of Punjab when she was abducted Friday and driven to a district bordering the Sikh holy city of Amritsar, local police officer Raj Jeet Singh said.

Five men joined the driver and conductor, who had taken her by motorbike to an unknown address, and took turns to rape the victim before dropping her off near her in-laws' village on Saturday morning, he said.

"Six men have been arrested on allegations of having raped a 29-year-old woman... after forcibly taking her to an unknown location on the night of January 11," the policeman said, adding that a seventh suspect was being hunted.

"The lady, after being kidnapped, was raped brutally throughout the night by the seven accused," he said.

"After raping the victim throughout the night, one of the accused dropped her near her in-laws' house the next morning where she narrated the whole incident to her two sisters-in-law."

He said the extent of her injuries had yet to be established.

The attack is disturbingly similar to the December 16 gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old student in Delhi, where five men are on trial in a case that has fuelled anger across India over the treatment of women.

Partap Singh Bajwa, a local Congress Party politician, blamed the police for not enforcing stringent checks on buses operating in the state.

"It all happened due to laxity of police as they never bother to check out the buses moving on national highways during night time," Bajwa said.

Several arrested after new gang rape in India - Central & South Asia - Al Jazeera English

 

[superunknown23]

Rapistan strikes again

 

[The Real]

Tragic as this is, I don't find all this sudden attention on rape in India in good faith at all, especially when the rape stats for Indian cities like Delhi aren't significantly different from rape stats for London or even NYC (which actually has a higher rape rate than Delhi.)

A mentally-ill girl was allegedly just gang-raped in NYC, and almost no one is focusing on that story, while we're getting a flood of articles about a rape on the other side of the world.

This seems more like white liberal/conservative paternalism and abjection/denial than genuine concern for women. Anyway, I hope the additional coverage on India helps change that country.

 

[the cac mamba]

Tragic as this is, I don't find all this sudden attention on rape in India in good faith at all, especially when the rape stats for Indian cities like Delhi aren't significantly different from rape stats for London or even NYC (which actually has a higher rape rate than Delhi.)

A mentally-ill girl was allegedly just gang-raped in NYC, and almost no one is focusing on that story, while we're getting a flood of articles about a rape on the other side of the world.

This seems more like white liberal/conservative paternalism and abjection/denial than genuine concern for women. Anyway, I hope the additional coverage on India helps change that country.

i feel like the articles are calling out india because the culture in india tends to lead to justice not being served? or am i wrong

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

Tragic as this is, I don't find all this sudden attention on rape in India in good faith at all, especially when the rape stats for Indian cities like Delhi aren't significantly different from rape stats for London or even NYC (which actually has a higher rape rate than Delhi.)

A mentally-ill girl was allegedly just gang-raped in NYC, and almost no one is focusing on that story, while we're getting a flood of articles about a rape on the other side of the world.

This seems more like white liberal/conservative paternalism and abjection/denial than genuine concern for women. Anyway, I hope the additional coverage on India helps change that country.

anything to damage control for all the recent news about high school and college football players gangraping unconscious girls right here in the good old USA. that being said india does have
a deadly combination of fixed patriarchy and corruption that deserves international outrage so it is what it is

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

The difference here is that usually rapists are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Not so much in India. Its sad and sickening really

 

[The Real]

The difference here is that usually rapists are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Not so much in India. Its sad and sickening really

That's actually not true (about here, that is... we have a lot of work to do on that front,) but even if it was the case, then the media should be focusing on court cases where the suspects are released and prosecution is not pursued instead of focusing on the crimes themselves. I think the focus on the crimes as if they are worse/happen more/there is something unique about them gives the game away.

 

[88m3]

Tragic as this is, I don't find all this sudden attention on rape in India in good faith at all, especially when the rape stats for Indian cities like Delhi aren't significantly different from rape stats for London or even NYC (which actually has a higher rape rate than Delhi.)

A mentally-ill girl was allegedly just gang-raped in NYC, and almost no one is focusing on that story, while we're getting a flood of articles about a rape on the other side of the world.

This seems more like white liberal/conservative paternalism and abjection/denial than genuine concern for women. Anyway, I hope the additional coverage on India helps change that country.

Do you seriously believe this?

come on son

 

[The Real]

Do you seriously believe this?

come on son

Believe what?

 

[88m3]

Believe what?

New Dehli and India may be the rape capitals of the world. I personally even know people who have been sexually assaulted there. How many rapes do you think get reported and are calculated. T
here are dozens of current Indian politicians facing prosecution for rape or have been convicted. Yeah lets compare it to New York or London!

Spoiler

 

[zerozero]

The Real is right. This sudden international media interest is a new construct and if continued can lead to really confused people like 88m3 declaring above about the rape capital of the world

 

[88m3]

The Real is right. This sudden international media interest is a new construct and if continued can lead to really confused people like 88m3 declaring above about the rape capital of the world

You're the one who lives there if you want to close your eyes to the situation thats on you.


I'm not going to pretend for anyone I can walk out of my flat and not get murdered by a cop.

 

[zerozero]

You're the one who lives there if you want to close your eyes to the situation thats on you.


I'm not going to pretend for anyone I can walk out of my flat and not get murdered by a cop.

Regardless of where you live or open or close eyes and all that one just has to be accurate about things. Like I said, six months ago none of this was in the international press. Today it is. It's a media trend situation. Don't let that distort your understanding of reality.

 

[88m3]

Regardless of where you live or open or close eyes and all that one just has to be accurate about things. Like I said, six months ago none of this was in the international press. Today it is. It's a media trend situation. Don't let that distort your understanding of reality

Are rape and sexual assault not an issue in India?

Rape is a big deal right? Scale of one to ten, ten being the most severe where would you place it? Personally I'd put it at at a ten next to murder.

You are against rape I take it. You're a pretty forward thinking young man after all.


Why hasn't there been progress to deal with the situation internally?

Why are Male and Female Politicians in India unable to handle this issue like adults. Please don't blame religion.

If it takes external pressure for change perhaps instead of being embarrassed you should be happy.

You talk the feminist talk but you don't seem to want to walk the feminist walk.

 

[zerozero]

That's a great set of random statements but I fail to see how they're relevant to what I said. How can you possibly say New Delhi is the "rape capital of the world" when South Africa exists with orders of magnitude worse a situation?

Though I'm sorry for the people you know who had those experiences here. Regardless of the general stats, each incident is very sad and outrageous