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Five youths drug and gang-rape a 17-year-old in Haryana

Sat, 27 Feb 2021 11:38:16 +0000

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A 17-year-old girl, studying in class 12, was allegedly drugged and sexually-assaulted by five youths near her village in Kurukshetra district of Haryana, reported NDTV on February 25, 2021. One of the accused, is the cousin of the survivor’s friend, whose house she last visited.

Three of the accused were arrested by police. Of them, two youths are 18-years-old and the third person, a juvenile, has been sent to an observation home. According to District Superintendent of Police Himanshu Garg the FIR was registered based on a complaint filed by the survivor’s family after the minor failed to return home.

Sub-Inspector Praveen Kaur said the survivor had gone to her friend’s house after school on February 22. Her father said the girl visited a coaching centre for an English-speaking course from 1:30 PM and returned by 4 PM. However, on that day, the centre said the girl had not attended the class.

Instead, her friend’s cousin took the girl, suffering a dizzy spell, to a place near Umri Chowk where the other youths, including a youth working at a hotel and a juvenile, were already present. The girl said she was also drugged at the time of the crime.

She was finally rescued by her parents who spotted the girl on a motorcycle travelling from the Ladwa town side, placed between two boys. Her parents were heading towards the police station at Barara chowk at 7 PM.

“They recognised her from the school dress. While the girl was seated in the middle, the boy sitting behind her had been pointing a country-made pistol at her head,” the complaint said.

The girl’s family members intercepted the motorcycle and managed to rescue the girl after overpowering one of the accused. Yet again, the girl was drugged during the altercation, said police.

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Madhya Pradesh: On being refused water, four gang-rape, brutalise woman with iron rod

Mon, 11 Jan 2021 13:06:49 +0000

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A 45-year-old woman has been brutalised and raped in Madhya Pradesh’s Sidhi district, and is now being treated in hospital where she was admitted in a critical condition. According to a news report, the woman was raped after she refused to give water to four men who approached her late at night on Saturday.

According to news reports, the police stated that the woman’s husband had died about four years ago, and her two children. Her sister lived in a shanty on a hillock near Hardi village, about 60 km from the district headquarters. She ran a small shop from her shanty. Her two sons, aged 16 and 18, were not at home at the time of the incident.

Manjulata Patle, additional superintendent of police, Sidhi was quoted by Hindustan Times stating that the woman was attacked by the men who “men tried to enter her house late at night on the pretext of asking for water. When the woman refused to give them water, the men broke into her house, raped her and injured her with an iron rod.” Police have stated that the four men, have been arrested on Sunday and were identified as residents of a neighbouring village.

The victim had been brutalised with the iron rod and subsequently fainted due to excessive bleeding, the police told the media, adding that her sister could not call anyone for help at that time as their house is in a desolate place. However she eventually managed to call an auto-rickshaw and took her to the police station, from where she was taken to the district hospital, and later referred to a medical facility in Rewa.

A case has been registered under Indian Penal Code Sections 376 (rape), 324 (voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons), 452 (house-trespass after preparation for hurt, assault or wrongful restraint) and 34 (common intention). On Monday Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra told the media in Bhopal that no culprit will be spared and a speedy trial will be conducted.

Ironically, on Monday, both Mishra and MP Chief Minister Shivraj Chouhan were guests of honour at an event on raising public awareness towards the safety of women in the state.

“नारी का सम्मान जहां हैं, संस्कृति का उत्थान वहां हैं।”

मातृशक्ति का सम्मान हमारी संस्कृति की विशिष्ट पहचान है।लेकिन समाज में महिलाओं के प्रति घृणित सोच रखने वाले लोगों के नजरिए में बदलाव लाने के लिए अपराधियों को कठोरतम सजा के साथ जन जागरूकता लाना भी जरूरी है।@BJPMahilaMorcha pic.twitter.com/x1t6CyzB2V

— Dr Narottam Mishra (@drnarottammisra) January 11, 2021

स्वाभाविक रूप से हमारे यहां मां, बहन और बेटियों का सम्मान है; वह अन्यत्र दुर्लभ है।

सीता-राम, लक्ष्मी-नारायण, गौरी-शंकर, राधे-कृष्ण; पहले नाम देवी मां का आता है। यह इस बात का परिचायक है कि यह केवल परंपरा नहीं, संस्कार हैं हमारे! #AsliHero pic.twitter.com/GvSZwAOmID

— Shivraj Singh Chouhan (@ChouhanShivraj) January 11, 2021

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Chhattisgarh: It took a suicide attempt by the grieving father of a rape victim, for cops to pay heed

Thu, 08 Oct 2020 14:41:46 +0000

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A grieving father tried to kill himself on Tuesday, two months after his daughter died by suicide. The minor girl had been gang-raped allegedly by seven men, while they were at a wedding in Kondagaon district of Chhattisgarh, reported the Times of India. Her father couldn’t even get a first information report (FIR) registered as the first step to seek justice for his child. In desperation and grief he attempted to take his own life. He survived, and it was then that the local police were moved to react to the case. Bastar range IGP Sundarraj told TO that the girl’s body has been exhumed for an autopsy.

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights chairperson Yashwant Jain has also written to the Kondagaon SP, and sought action against the local police inspector for not registering an FIR earlier. The commission has asked for a detailed investigation report within 10 days stated the news report. The police on the other hand maintain that they had not been informed about the gangrape allegations. However TOI quotes sources in Kondagaon saying local police had promised her father that they would take action, but did nothing.

Bhim Army Chief, Chandra Shekhar Aazad, has also raised this issue over social media:

https://twitter.com/BhimArmyChief/status/1314162459985362944

रायपुर, छत्तीसगढ़ में एक किशोरी के साथ 07 दरिंदों ने गैंगरेप किया। मुंह खोलने पर हत्या की धमकी दी गई। पुलिस ने FIR दर्ज नहीं की। न्याय की उम्मीद टूटने पर पीड़िता ने आत्महत्या करके अपनी जान दे दी। पीड़िता के पिता ने भी आत्महत्या की कोशिश की। कड़ी कार्यवाही करें। @ChhattisgarhCMO

— Chandra Shekhar Aazad (@BhimArmyChief) October 8, 2020

Bastar police has now said five accused were arrested, after the FIR was registered on October 7, under sections 376(D), 306,201,34 IPC against the accused persons, “for abetment of suicide of the victim, who was sexually assaulted in Kanagaon village, where she went to attend her uncle’s marriage”

https://twitter.com/bastar_police/status/1314172134772469760

05 accused arrested in Odegaon incident of Kondagaon district. On 07/10/2020 FIR registered u/s 376(D), 306,201,34 IPC against the accused persons for abetment of suicide of the victim, who was sexually assaulted in Kanagaon village, where she went to attend her uncle’s marriage pic.twitter.com/flxhBBfbQP

— Bastar Police (@bastar_police) October 8, 2020

According to a late update by news agency ANI, the then Station House Officer (SHO) of Dhanora has been suspended for “negligence in registering the case of rape” and a departmental inquiry will be conducted against him.

The extensive report by TOI revealed how the poor father also attempted suicide “because he believed a case couldn’t be registered since two months have passed and his child is dead,”. However, he luckily survived, and the police woke up. Now as the media, and now the Bhim Army too took cognisance the police are expected to move ahead, according to news reports the FIR has been registered and attempts are being made to nab the seven accused. The men are said to be residing in villages adjoining the girl’s, around 190km from Raipur.

The TOI reported that the victim was about 16-17 years old and had gone to attend a relative’s wedding at a neighbouring village with family and friends “ she was enjoying a dance when two drunken youths spotted her,” stated the report, the two dragged her to a nearby forest, five other men came and the teenager “was raped for several hours,” TOI quoted IGP Sundarraj. The teenager told her friend “that the rapists threatened to kill her” if she spoke about the rape or complained to anyone. The accused reportedly brought her back to the wedding venue. The traumatised teenager hanged herself on July 20.

According to the IG the local police did investigate her suicide and asked family members to contact them in case they come to know what triggered it. The news report states that it was the victim’s friend who told the family about the gangrape days after she had died. The family did not know if a case could be registered even after the victim was dead. “In their ignorance of the law, the family didn’t get back to the police. After two months, her father also attempted suicide by consuming pesticide, but was saved by doctors,” IG Sundarraj told the TOI

However the TOI report also quoted Kondagaon SP Siddharth Tewari suggesting that the girl’s father was mentally ill, and that his suicide attempt had “nothing to do with girl’s suicide.” However, sources in Kondagaon said that after her suicide, the local police station inspector had assured that an FIR would be registered and asked the family to be prepared to record their statements. But police allegedly took no action on the promise.

As expected local Bharatiya Janata Party leaders aired their opinions on the Kondagaon gangrape. “Daughters in Chhattisgarh are not safe, right from Balrampur to Bastar. What kind of ‘Nava Chhattisgarh’ does the Congress government plan to create? They don’t even have words of consolation for the victims. The state government is busy playing political drama over the Hathras incident,” leader of opposition Dharamlal Kaushik was quoted by the news report.

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