The gang-rape of a 23-year-old paramedical student on a moving bus in Delhi on December 16, 2012, shocked India and left the world shaken at the way women are treated in the 21st century. Unfortunately, India is far from overcoming the 'rape culture
In March 2013, a Swiss couple was physically assaulted by a gang of eight locals near Agra. The 39-year-old was raped in front of her husband, who was tied up.
A girl was gang raped allegedly by her lover and two of his friends in Bangalore in November 2013. The girl said her lover took her to a room in a desolate place on the pretext of introducing her to his friends and later threatened her with dire
A teenager was allegedly raped by a youth on the pretext of marriage in Andhra Pradesh. Prashant, a degree student, allegedly developed physical relationship with the 16-year-old girl and promised to marry her. But when he began avoiding her, she
But when the drivers were arrested, police found out that the girl was actually raped inside the cab in the heart of Hyderabad. <b><a href="http://bit.ly/1b9PIzy">Read here</a></b>
Fear of isolation forced a 22-year-old software professional in Hyderabad to shy away from registering a rape complaint against cab drivers, whom she trusted to take her to her hostel. She filed a false complaint of attempted rape against the
In yet another shocking case, a 35-year-old woman was gang-raped by four, including a police constable, at a bus stand in Andhra Pradesh. The incident occurred around 1 AM when the woman was waiting for a bus.
“I was raped, tortured and drugged by him in a room in his flat. Whenever I became conscious, I shouted for help. Then he would threaten to kill me and torture me more,” said the victim in the complaint. One fine day, she managed to escape when he
In a shocking incident, a 20-year-old polytechnic student was allegedly kidnapped and raped by the college canteen owner for almost 17 months in Hyderabad. Satya Prakash Singh, 34, a native of Bihar, owner of the canteen at TRR College of Technology
A 17-year-old UP girl's mistake was that she trusted her own dad Ramesh Rajvar, who raped and killed her in Mumbai. Rajvar, who was against her daughter's relationship with one of their relatives Anil Rajvar. To teach her a 'lesson', he and his
It is not just in Delhi. A 23-year old photojournalist of an English magazine was gang-raped at dilapidated Shakti Mills in Mumbai when she along with a male colleague went for an assignment. The five accused threatened her with broken beer bottle
What's gruesome is that after the national rage over the December 16 rape, the number of rapes in Delhi alone has gone up by 100 pc.
Another innocent five-year-old was raped by her uncle and dumped on road, over 15 km from her house in Karni Vihar in Rajasthan. The girl's mother, a labourer, said the kid was taken away when she was playing with her friends. (Pic for
The accused, Vishal Galitkar, 25, a relative of the girl, took the kid to his house and first beat her up, then raped her and fled the scene. (Pic for representational purpose only)
While the whole nation recalled the horror of Delhi rape a year later on December 16, 2013, media reported yet another ghastly story of a three-year-old girl being raped by her neighbour in Nashik in Maharashtra.
According to a BBC report in February 2013, over 7,200 children are raped each year in India.
In a country that is trying to overcome the stigma of female foeticide, women also have a constant sense of insecurity on road, in bus, cabs--, almost everywhere. Irrespective of age-- three-year-old to 80-year-old-- victims of sexual assault lead a
The gang-rape of a 23-year-old paramedical student on a moving bus in Delhi on December 16, 2012, shocked India and left the world shaken at the way women are treated in the 21st century. Unfortunately, India is far from overcoming the 'rape culture