Will a Horrific Bus Gang-Rape in Delhi Finally Change India's Culture of Rape?

[Ed Anger]

Steubenville has gotten rough.

[Neil]

Acid attacks weren't a criminal matter before?  Assault is assault, no?

[MadImmortalMan]

Oh, India.

Woman gang-raped inside lawyer's chamber
Published: Tuesday, Mar 19, 2013, 23:20 IST
Place: New Delhi | Agency: PTI

A woman has alleged that she was raped by four men, including her estranged husband, inside a lawyer's chamber here, police said on Tuesday.

The victim claimed that the incident took place in a chambers of the lawyer practicing in Patiala court complex.

She claimed that her husband's lawyer called her to the court on pretext of settling her divorce petition.

She claimed her husband and sister-in-law took her to the chamber where she was raped by the lawyer, his assistant and her husband and her brother-in-law.

A case has been registered.

[Phillip V]

Indian Car Ad Goes Viral



http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/25/indian-car-ad-goes-viral-not-in-a-good-way/

[Malthus]

Oh man, that's wrong on every possible level.

What ad executive gave that particular concept the green light? 

[CountDeMoney]

We already have a thread about it.

[Syt]

It has also made [...] acid attacks and the trafficking of women punishable under criminal law.

They weren't before?

[merithyn]

[NOTE: For the squeamish, DON'T READ THIS ARTICLE.]

I hope the mother fucker roasts in hell... but I wouldn't be surprised if he gets off without serving a day in prison.

The accused in rape of a five-year-old girl in Delhi was arrested from Muzaffarpur in Bihar on Friday night, said police.

The five-year-old girl was raped, battered, had a plastic bottle and candles shoved into her vagina and was left to die in a locked room in east Delhi by her 25-year-old neighbour before she was discovered two days later, lying in a pool of her own blood.

When her father went to the police for help, they gave him Rs. 2,000 to hush up the matter.

And when protesters gathered outside the hospital the girl was taken to, a senior police officer thought nothing of slapping a woman demonstrator.

Clearly, nothing has changed in rape capital Delhi, despite the public outrage and government assurances that followed the December 16 gang rape of a 23-year-old woman on a moving bus and her subsequent death.

The little girl was playing near her rented house in Dilshad Garden last Sunday evening when she was abducted by Manoj, a tailor who doubles up as a labourer. For the next 72 hours, she was raped and brutalised over and over again in a room right below her own house, as her family searched desperately for her.

She was rescued from her dark prison on Wednesday, after her parents heard her feeble cries and called the police.

[CountDeMoney]

Yeah, I could've done without the image of a cop slapping a female protester.

[merithyn]

Yeah, I could've done without the image of a cop slapping a female protester.

I intentionally didn't bold the bad part.

[Phillip V]

The protesters should try violence.

[Phillip V]

2nd Suspect Arrested in India Child Rape as More Cases Emerge

'The police arrested a second suspect in the rape and torture of a 5-year-old girl on Monday and announced that the number of reported rapes in New Delhi had more than doubled since December, while molesting cases had risen sixfold.'

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/23/world/asia/india-child-rape.html

[merithyn]

Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar said at a news conference Monday that the increase in the number of reported sex crimes in New Delhi was a measure of how much more seriously the police took such reports since the gang rape of a medical student in December led to widespread protests and the enactment of a new rape law.

Based on the fact that the police tried to buy the parents' silence for 2000 rupees, I'm gonna go with a big fat NOT.

[Malthus]

Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar said at a news conference Monday that the increase in the number of reported sex crimes in New Delhi was a measure of how much more seriously the police took such reports since the gang rape of a medical student in December led to widespread protests and the enactment of a new rape law.

Based on the fact that the police tried to buy the parents' silence for 2000 rupees, I'm gonna go with a big fat NOT.

My guess is that the prominence of the issue, raised by the high-profile Bus Case, has simply made reporting by members of the public more frequent.

Whether there has been any improvement on the part of the cops is an open question. Obviously, even if there has, not all cops there have got the memo. 

[merithyn]

My guess is that the prominence of the issue, raised by the high-profile Bus Case, has simply made reporting by members of the public more frequent.

Whether there has been any improvement on the part of the cops is an open question. Obviously, even if there has, not all cops there have got the memo.

Yeah. I'd guess the increase in reporting has more to do with the fact that women are refusing to be shamed by what's happened to them more than that the police are "taking it seriously".