http://www.centralchronicle.com/20080119/1901304.htm
*State Pulse: Goa: India world's rape capital? * Two more rape cases of foreign tourists has forced all the States and Union Territories to sit up and apply stringent measures, including increased policing to curb this most heinous of crimes. Especially against the backdrop of India that is Bharat fast gaining notoriety as the world's rape capita! Two women, one British and the *other Russian, were raped in just under a week in the lush tourist paradise of Goa. At the rate matters are deteriorating, the State will fast lose its title from a popular tourist country to a forbidding rape centre.* In Rajasthan, it was bad enough for the State having to come to terms with the scandalous spectacle of a senior Orissa police Officer, BB Mohanty, surrendering for his son's rape of a German tourist. Now the Government finds itself rocked by the news of another heinous rape of a Japanese tourist in the holy city of Pushkar and of a British woman in Udaipur. According to the latest crime statistics released by the Union Home Ministry's National Crime Bureau, 53 women become victims of rape daily. Shockingly, Delhi topped the list with 4,134 cases (nearly one-fifth of the total crime against women) followed by cyber city Hyderabad with 1,755 cases in 2006. Among the States, Andhra Pradesh had the highest number of 'fair sex' crimes--21,484 cases or over 13 per cent of the total cases, with Uttar Pradesh a close second with 9.9 per cent. To Madhya Pradesh went the ignominious honour of the highest number of rape and molestation cases (2,900). Distressingly, over 7,618 women became victims of dowry deaths of which UP recorded the highest number at 1,798, with Bihar at 1,188. Clearly, this has shredded the last vestige of the UPA Government's tall claims of being the leading champion for women. Notwithstanding Renuka Chowdhary assertion that she would personally monitor the probe into the Mumbai New Year day molestation of an NRI woman incident!