Three men found guilty of gang-raping two women in Mumbai last year have been sentenced to death.

Three men found guilty of gang-raping two women in Mumbai last year have been sentenced to death. (NDtv).

Three men found guilty of gang-raping two women in the abandoned Shakti Mills in Mumbai last year have been sentenced to death by a court.

Yesterday, the men were convicted under a new legal provision that punishes repeat offenders in rape cases with a life term or death sentence.

Vijay Jadhav, Kasim Bengali and Salim Ansari are the first to be sentenced to death for rape not involving the death of the victim, as part of stronger laws enacted after the fatal gang-rape of a young student in Delhi in December, 2012. A fourth convict, Siraj, has been sentenced to life in jail and a minor accused is being tried separately.

"Any leniency in this case would be a travesty of justice. Life term would be inadequate sentence. We have to do justice to the victim and society," said a Mumbai sessions court.

The three men were the common factor in the gang-rapes of a photojournalist and a telephone operator in the deserted mill in the heart of Mumbai, which dented the city's image as one of India's safest.

They were described as unemployed school dropouts known for petty thefts, who used to drink and spend time at Shakti Mills. The prosecution told the court that when they spotted the photojournalist and her colleague on August 22, they called two of their friends saying, "Come. The shikar (prey) has arrived."

The 23-year-old photographer was on assignment at the mill when five men tied up her colleague and took turns to assault her, holding a broken bottle to her head. The attackers were found guilty of offences that included showing pornography to her and forcing her to perform similar acts, stripping her, and destroying evidence.

The phone operator came forward after learning of the photographer's ordeal. She revealed that the same men had raped her nearly a month before, on July 31.

Prosecution lawyer Ujjwal Nikam told the court that after repeatedly raping the photojournalist, they laughed at her and boasted, "We are evil. We have raped many girls but no one has ever caught us."

Mr Nikam said, "This shows that they were not afraid of the law."

"Rape[Istan] - 4-year-old who was raped has brain injuries, is on life support - Delhi five-year-old rape victim stable, is speaking to parents and nurses.

"Rape[Istan] - 4-year-old who was raped has brain injuries, is on life support - Delhi five-year-old rape victim stable, is speaking to parents and nurses.(NDtv).Nagpur: The four-year-old girl who was allegedly raped in a village in Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday and moved to Nagpur in Maharashtra in an air ambulance last night still unconscious, said doctors attending to her. She has been kept on life support, they added.

Doctors said she has suffered severe brain injuries. The condition of her body is bad, said doctors, adding that her brain is not functioning properly. Her heart and pulse, however, are fine, doctors said.She is unable to breathe normally apparently because her alleged rapist tried to strangle her, doctors added.

The minor was moved to Nagpur amid concerns over her deteriorating health. This morning, she was taken to another hospital for some brain tests.A team six specialist doctors is looking after her round the clock.

The four-year old was lured with a chocolate and kidnapped from outside her home in a village near Seoni on Wednesday. Her parents found her lying unconscious at a farm the next morning, following which she was taken to a hospital in Jabalpur.

While the man who kidnapped her has been arrested, her alleged rapist is still on the run. According to the police, both the men were known to the girl's family.

New Delhi: The five-year-old girl who was brutally raped in the national capital is in "stable" condition after undergoing surgery, doctors said on Sunday.

"She is stable and is responding well to treatment," D.K. Sharma, medical superintendent of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), told reporters.

"Her vital parameters are ok and she faces no threat to her life. She is alert and spoke to her parents and doctors," said Sharma, adding that she had "mild fever".

"The child is showing gradual recovery. She slept well during the night. She is responding well to anti-biotics."

He said the girl, raped by her 22-year-old neighbour, had undergone "colostomy" surgery. This is a procedure to create an alternative route for stool to pass. Hmmmm.....Sometimes you just ask "Why Lord?"Read the full story here.

"Rape[Istan] - Man accused of raping five-year-old in Delhi arrested from Bihar, say police.

Stuffed animals on rape victims hospital bed.

"Rape[Istan] - Man accused of raping five-year-old in Delhi arrested from Bihar, say police.(NDtv).

New Delhi: A 22-year-old man, who is accused of raping and mutilating a five-year-old girl in the national capital, was arrested from Muzaffarpur in Bihar late last night.

The accused, Manoj Kumar, had come to Muzaffarpur by train from Delhi after the incident. He is a native of Bharphua village of the district, according to reports. Kumar was traced after tracking the location of his mobile phone, police sources said. He recently got married and his wife had left for Muzzafarpur a few days before to the crime. He was produced in a local court this morning and will be brought on transit remand to Delhi.

Kumar allegedly raped the five-year-old girl at his rented accommodation in east Delhi's Gandhi Nagar. The girl and her family stayed in the same building.

The five-year-old was kidnapped on Monday while she was playing outside her home, and was then kept captive in the basement of the same building where she lived by a man who rented a room there about a week ago. On Wednesday evening, it was not the police but neighbours who found her after they heard her cries.

Doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi, where she is undergoing treatment, said this morning that her condition was stable.

The barbarous attack on the girl - she was violated with pieces of a candle and a bottle - has outraged the city. Through Friday, protestors shouted slogans against politicians and the police at the hospital where she was being treated in East Delhi till she was moved to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).

Security is very tight at AIIMS after protests erupted this morning demanding justice for the victim and punishment to policemen who allegedly did not help locate the girl who went missing on April 15.

Meanwhile, the Union Home Ministry has sought a report from the Delhi Police on the progress in the case.

Since December, when the fatal gang-rape of a student on a Delhi bus stunned and incensed the country, the city's police and government have vowed that no effort will be spared to protect women. But a slew of attacks, many of them against young girls, prove that despite the introduction of tougher anti-rape laws and pledges of better policing, little has changed for a city titled "the rape capital" of India.Hmmm....May God give him swift and eternal punishment.Read the full story here.

"Rape[Istan]" Capital Delhi - five year old Indian girl ‘critical’ after brutal rape.

"Rape[Istan]" Capital Delhi -  five year old Indian girl ‘critical’ after brutal rape.(ET).

NEW DELHI: A five-year-old Indian girl was battling for her life on Friday after being kidnapped and brutally raped in the latest incident of sexual violence which has triggered nationwide protests.

The girl was attacked inside a locked room over a 48-hour period, police said, after being abducted as she played outside on Monday in a lower-middle class area of the capital New Delhi.

“We initially registered a case of kidnapping. We have now launched a preliminary inquiry into rape and attempted murder,” Rajan Bhagat told AFP, adding a hunt was on to catch a family neighbour who is the main accused.

The child was admitted to the intensive care unit of a city hospital on Wednesday and doctors said her condition was “critical” as news channels provided wall-to-wall coverage.

“The girl was traumatised when she was brought to us. There were injuries to her lips, cheeks and chest wall. There were bruises on her neck,” RN Bansal, medical superintendent of a local government hospital, told NDTV news channel.

Doctors said the girl’s genital area had been mutilated and that objects had been inserted inside her, causing serious internal injuries and infection.
“We are keeping her under constant observation. The next few hours are going to be very critical,” Bansal said.

She was found after a passerby heard her crying and alerted the police.

The incident comes just months after India was shaken by the horrific gang-rape of a student in Delhi on a bus last year that triggered countrywide demonstrations and debate over the status of women and girls and their safety.

The woman succumbed to her injuries 13 days after the assault in which her attackers drove an iron rod inside her, damaging her internal organs.

The parents of the five-year-old girl, who was later moved to a better-equipped government hospital in the city, accused the police of being insensitive in their investigation.

“They were reluctant to register our complaint (that she was missing) when we approached them the first time. Then the police asked us to be content with the fact she was at least found alive,” the father of the girl said.

Scores of protesters gathered outside the hospital Friday where the child was admitted and shouted abuse at police for failing to investigate her disappearance properly.

Women’s rights activists condemned the incident, saying the injuries inflicted on the girl were shocking.

“This incident shows what kind of brutes do we have in society. Society is also responsible for this. It has become full of perverts,” said Ranjana Kumari of the Delhi-based Centre for Social Research.Hmmmm.....Sometimes you really wish that the Lord would carry out a biblical punishment for such cultures.Time for Governments to issue a severe warning about traveling to "Rape[Istan]".Read the full story here.More here, here and here.

75,000 children have gone missing in India without a trace in three years: Government.

75,000 children have gone missing in India without a trace in three years: Government.(NDtv).

New Delhi: Around 75,000 children have gone missing in the last three years in the country and are still untraced, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Wednesday.

Of the about 2.36 lakh children who went missing in the last three years, 1,61,800 have been traced, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Paban Singh Ghatowar said during the Question Hour."Unfortunately about 75,000 are still untraced," he said.

Mr Ghatowar, who was replying on behalf of Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath, admitted that the issue of missing children has assumed an "alarming" proportion.

He informed the House that a web portal 'TrackChild' has been launched on a pilot basis to deal with the issue.States are also being asked to update data on missing children on the portal, he said.

The Minister further said the problem of children going missing was due to economic and social reasons and also due to criminal activities. He, however, said there was no information that missing children were being sold in neighboring countries.

When asked about children being kidnapped from hospitals, he said there have been such cases but law and order is a state subject. As per a data of National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), 34,406 children were untraced in 2011, 23,236 in 2010 and 18,166 in the previous year.Hmmmm.......India 'Where Rape and Child kidnapping' flourish.Read the full story here.

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