In the latest episode, a 20-year-old woman from western Uttar Pradesh is
fighting for her life in the intensive care unit of a government hospital
after she was gang-raped and brutally assaulted by four men from her
village. The girl belongs to the Scheduled Castes community, while all four
accused are from a so-called upper caste. The incident allegedly happened on
September 14.
Doctors say the woman has multiple fractures all over her body and her
tongue was cut too. Her condition in critical.
The victim and her mother had gone to a field for some grass. 4 or 5 men
came from behind, threw my sister's dupatta around her neck and dragged her
and raped her.
The police acted only after four-five days, her brother said. The police
claim they have arrested all the four accused, charged them with gang-rape
and murder, and sent them to jail.
But the police are known to lie.
SOURCE: NDTV news
UP, with a population of 220 million (more than three times that of
Britain) is the most rape prone State.
It is ruled by a semi-literate anti-Muslim CM called Adityanath Yogi,
appointed by Modi's BJP regime.
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A FEW EXAMPLES:
June 2014: two teen sisters were abducted by three men, taken to the woods
and gang-raped. The incident happened in the Etah district of western UP.
May 2014: LACK OF TOILET FACILITIES forces girls out to open fields,
inviting rape
Badaun: On the night of May 28, two girls, aged 14 and 15 years, stepped
out of their house in Katra village, in Uttar Pradesh's Badaun district, to
relieve themselves.
They were allegedly abducted and raped by some men from the same village;
their bodies were found hanging from a tree the next day.
In rural India, the acute shortage of basic facilities like bathrooms forces
women and girls to venture out to the open fields - also makes them
vulnerable to horrific sexual violence.
Nearly two months ago, four girls from Bhagana in Haryana, who had stepped
out to answer nature's call, were picked up from right outside their
residence. They were raped and then dumped at the Bhatinda railway station
in Punjab. Over 80% of rural population defecate in the open.
June 2014: A 22-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped, forced to drink
acid and later strangled to death in Baheri area in Bareilly in Uttar
Pradesh.
Her face was mutilated to hide her identity and later strangled.
In Oct 2017 ( NEWSCLICK), two minors were raped in Baghpat and Shahjahanpur
(UP). The cases were reported to the police but no action taken. That led
the culprits to rape again. The victims committed suicide .
Over 95 rapes are believed to be committed each day in India.
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Eddie
