Pakistan - Girl arrested for killing father who ‘tried to rape her and her sisters’

Pakistan - Girl arrested for killing father who ‘tried to rape her and her sisters’ (ET).

A woman in Karachi’s Pirabad area has been arrested over allegedly killing her father for ‘raping her sisters’ and attempting to rape her as well, Express News reported on Sunday.

According to police, the suspect confessed to have set her father on fire after he reportedly attempted to rape her.

The suspect’s brother alleged that his sister in a First Information Report (FIR) said that she drugged their father and set him on fire on Friday which resulted in his death.

Meanwhile, police have registered a case against the accused and she is being held at the Women Police Station West Zone in Liaquatabad.

India - Punjab: 12-year-old girl set on fire after week long rape, dies.

India - Punjab: 12-year-old girl set on fire after week long rape, dies. (Indian express).

A 12-year-old girl died on Thursday morning after being allegedly set on fire by a 19-year old man, who is also accused of repeatedly raping her in the last eight days.

Sunil, 19, allegedly poured kerosene on the girl last night at her residence in Balwinder Singh ka vehra (one-room houses) in Sherpur area following which she was rushed to Ludhiana Civil Hospital with more than 95 percent burns.

The girl named Sunil in her statement before a magistrate and said that he threatened to kill her if she revealed anything to her parents.

Speaking to Indian Express, RS Cheema, Assistant commissioner of police (ACP) south, said, “The girl used to stay at home and the accused was teasing her for days. She was being repeatedly raped since 8-10 days and she did not reveal it to her parents. Yesterday, she decided to tell to her parents but before that Sunil poured kerosene on her and set her ablaze.”

The gynecologist, who performed a medical check up before her death, confirmed to the police that the girl was brutally raped.

She was referred to PGIMER Chandigarh after her condition became extremely critical, but succumbed to burn injuries on her way.

Tension gripped Sherpur area after her family blocked traffic and staged protest with the dead body demanding Sunil’s arrest.

An FIR has been registered at Focal Point police station in which police has booked the father and two brothers of the accused under section 120-B (conspiracy) of IPC. His father Harish and two brothers, Anil and Laxman (aged 19 and 22), have now been arrested. The main accused, Sunil, is still absconding.

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India - Rape[Istan] - Women were pulled out of cars and gang-raped. (NDtv)

A popular pit-stop for travelers just 50 km from Delhi, gave a chilling face to allegations that women were pulled out of cars and gang-raped here a week ago, at the height of violence during Jat quota protests.

The police say no one has been able to confirm the mass rapes that allegedly took place late on Sunday night; no witnesses have come forward, no complaints have been made and villagers have said nothing.

"We appeal to people to provide any information. We are very serious about the case...we will investigate and make sure that the guilty are punished," said Haryana police chief Yash Pal Singal.

"The clothes that have been found have been collected. We are trying to ascertain if a crime was committed," he added,

Three women officers have been tasked with receiving any rape complaint during the Jat protests.

A newspaper report had said that cars were stopped by a mob of 30 and at least 10 women were dragged out and raped in the fields. The cars were allegedly set on fire.

The report quoted eyewitnesses as saying that the women lay in the fields almost till dawn until their families came looking for them. Witnesses are quoted as saying the women were persuaded by the police not to press charges.

An NGO has said that its members spoke to witnesses who confirmed the rapes.

Taking note of the allegations, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Wednesday asked Haryana's Chief Secretary and the police chief to submit a report on the alleged rapes in Murthal.

Video - 16-year old Afghan refugee charged with rape of female worker at Belgian asylum center.

The 16-year old Afghan refugee reportedly assaulted the 19 -year old girl despite previously attending classes for migrants explaining how to respect women. A spokeswoman for the Red Cross, the humanitarian group is running the center, described the attack.

Red Cross-Flanders gives courses " How to deal with women." Just two weeks ago, a course took place in Menen (Where the rape took place) for all women and unaccompanied minors male applicants . " More here in Dutch news.

India - 15 Y-old rape victim 'sexually assaulted in hospital while receiving treatment for first rape attack'

India - 15 Y-old rape victim 'sexually assaulted in hospital while receiving treatment for first rape attack'. (Telegraph).

A teenage rape victim was allegedly sexually assaulted a second time while in hospital receiving treatment for the original attack in India's east, police said on Monday, in the latest case of violence against women.

The 15-year-old girl has told police that she was raped on Sunday by a security guard at the hospital where she had been admitted in Jamshedpur city in the impoverished state of Jharkhand.

"We registered a case and arrested the private security guard posted at the hospital after the girl's complaint and are now awaiting her medical report," police superintendent Chandan Jha told AFP.

"The girl has (now) been referred to the best hospital in the city for further treatment and rehabilitation," he added. Read the full story here. 

Court in Pakistan Acquits Muslims Accused of Raping Two Christian Girls.

Court in Pakistan Acquits Muslims Accused of Raping Two Christian Girls.(MS).

Two Muslim men who raped two Christian sisters in Pakistan last year have been acquitted after Islamists pressured a key witness not to testify and a prosecutor failed to show up in court, family and legal sources said.

The two teenaged girls (names withheld) had gone to a toilet in a field near their village of Jaranwala, Faisalabad on Nov. 28, 2014 when the men, Muhammad Shahbaz and Muhammad Azeem, abducted them at gunpoint, beat one for protesting, took them to a house and raped them throughout the night, they said. The girls said they recognized the assailants, said to be between 25 and 30 years old, as they were from their area.

The girls’ father, whose name is withheld for legal reasons, told Morning Star News a witness changed his statement after receiving a bribe, which led to the collapse of a hearing at Jaranwala Trial Court on Oct. 10. The court on Oct. 15 acquitted the suspects.

“The prosecution evidence contains a large number of material infirmities and contradictions, and the benefit of them, necessarily, is to be extended to the accused,” the judge said. “This leads this court to the obvious conclusion that the prosecution remain unsuccessful to provide its case against the accused beyond [any] shadow of doubt.”

The girls’ father told the British Pakistani Christian Association (BPCA) that he was upset and disappointed.

“We didn’t get justice,” he said. “The lawyer didn’t fight the case very well and with commitment. Mostly, he stayed absent from the hearings of the case during the proceedings. The lawyer didn’t even participate in the cross-questioning with the culprits in the court.”

Soon after the men were arrested, the girls’ family survived gunfire on their home, presumably from parties opposed to their attempt to prosecute. The family is in greater danger now, the father said.

“We face serious life threats from the culprits now, as they are being released from jail,” he said. “I will appeal to the High Court, because I want justice for my daughters.”

The BPCA rehoused the girls in Pakistan after the shootings and death threats by Islamists, and the London-based organization is providing the girls education, counseling and other medical help, a servant for the elderly and ailing father and legal aid to file an appeal.

The case has allegedly been lost due to the unreliability of a key witness who originally, in the face of threats, refused to attend the court, then when instructed to attend by the court changed his original statement,” Wilson Chowdhry, head of the BPCA, said in a statement on the BPCA website. “Previously a family friend, [he] has been accused of taking a bribe and altering his statement in lieu of this payment.”

The elder of the two girls has suffered anxiety and depression since the attack and has been even more withdrawn since the court decision, according to Chowdhry.

One the sisters said that as they were walking in the field, the young men were touching them while laughing and jeering, leaving the girls both humiliated and terrified.

“We both prayed to God to free us from their clutches,” she said. “We recognized the young men as they were from our local area, and I pleaded with them not to do anything to us. For talking I was slapped in the face and punched hard in my stomach. We both kept quite after this.”

The justice system of Pakistan was biased in favor of the culprits because of religious discrimination, the girls’ father said. Pakistan’s population is nearly 96 percent Muslim, and crimes against Christians often go unprosecuted due to Islamist threats and the belief that largely impoverished Christians will not have the resources to overcome religious discrimination.

Chowdhry said Christians have been complaining for decades about sex crimes and forced conversions and marriages.

“Christian girls, who are never removed from the custody of their rapists, choose to agree to the terms of their marriage rather than see their families killed before them and receive further beatings and degradation,” he said. “How many girls will cry themselves to sleep forever, before international governments intervene?”

Due to the severity of the threats against the family, the father of the girls said he is worried that it will be impossible to go back to his home in Jaranwala.

The elder of the two girls has suffered anxiety and depression since the attack and has been even more withdrawn since the court decision, according to Chowdhry.

One the sisters said that as they were walking in the field, the young men were touching them while laughing and jeering, leaving the girls both humiliated and terrified.

Chowdhry referred to a report by the Movement for Solidarity and Peace, a Muslim Non-Governmental Organization, which in April 2014 published, “Forced Marriages and Forced Conversions in the Christian Community of Pakistan.”

The report notes that when girls are abducted and forcibly converted to Islam and married, the victim’s family usually files a First Information Report (FIR) for abduction or rape with the local police station.

“The abductor, on behalf of the victim girl, files a counter FIR, accusing the Christian family of harassing the willfully converted and married girl, and for conspiring to convert the girl back to Christianity,” the report states.

While the girl is still in the custody of the abductor, leaving her and her family vulnerable to retaliatory acts, a magistrate typically asks her to testify whether she converted and married of her own free will, according to the report.

“Upon the girl’s pronouncement that she willfully converted and consented to the marriage, the case is settled without relief for the family,” the report states. “Once in the custody of the abductor, the victim girl may be subjected to sexual violence, rape, forced prostitution, human trafficking and sale, or other domestic abuse.”

The report adds that in some cases girls are too young to give legal consent. Incidents of murder resulting from forced marriage have also been recorded, according to the report.

“We ask people moved by this story to sign our petition [www.britishpakistanichristians.co.uk]
and show solidarity with the weeping, Christian women of Pakistan, who lose their earthly lives but holdfast to a better promise in heaven,” Chowdhry said.

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Delhi India's rape capital - Two Minors a 2.5 year old n 5 year old Gang-Raped In One Day.

Delhi India's rape capital - Two Minors a 2.5 year old n 5 year old Gang-Raped In One Day. (NDtv).

New Delhi: A week after the horrific rape and torture of a four-year-old girl in Delhi, two more cases of minor girls being gang-raped have been reported from the capital. Both the girls have suffered severe injuries and are recovering in hospital.

In the first case, a two-and-a-half-year-old girl was raped allegedly by two men who abducted her on a motorbike from outside her house in west Delhi's Nangloi area on Friday. Neighbours later found her lying unconscious at a nearby park. She was profusely bleeding.

The girl's mother has claimed that her daughter was abducted while she was watching a ramleela performance near her house. "My girl was watching ramleela when there was a power cut. That is when they kidnapped her," she said.

The girl has suffered severe damage to her private parts and has bites marks on her body, said Swati Maliwal, the chairperson of Delhi Commission for Women who visited her today. "Woke up to 2 incidents of gangrape of a 2.5 year old n 5 year old. Bleeding not stopping for 2.5 year old. On way to Sanjay Gandhi Hospital (sic)," she had posted on Twitter this morning.

No arrests have been made in the case so far.

The same day, a five-year-old was raped allegedly by three men in east Delhi's Anand Vihar area. The girl was reportedly alone at home when one of the accused, her neighbor, took her to his house and then allegedly raped her along with his friends.

Her neighbours saw her coming out of the accused's house and informed the police. "She was crying and her clothes were soaked with blood," one of them has told police. All three accused have been arrested.

Update!

Police arrest 2 teenagers in rape of toddler in India.

Two teenagers have been arrested and were being questioned Sunday for allegedly raping a toddler, in the latest incident of sexual violence against a young child in the Indian capital.

Police had formed 15 teams and questioned more than 250 residents of the western Delhi neighborhood where the 2 ½-year-old girl was raped and left bleeding in a park on Friday night, police said.

The two 17-year-old boys were arrested late Saturday, said Dependra Pathak, a top police officer.

Rape[Istan] India Blocks 857 Websites for 'Porn'.

Rape[Istan] India Blocks 857 Websites for 'Porn'. (NDTV).

Since Saturday, Indians have been unable to access more than 800 websites, blocked by a government order on the grounds that they host porn, though that is not against the law in India. Here is your 10-point cheat-sheet to this story:

1) The ban has provoked a furious debate online about extreme and unwarranted moral policing by the government.

2) The sites that are banned include some of the world's biggest porn sites like Pornhub and Xvideos.

3) But also included in the lengthy list are torrent sites, video sharing sites, as well as comedy and dating sites.

4) A copy of the government's order, which has been marked as 'restricted', has been leaked by the Centre of Internet Studies.

5) Dated Friday, July 31, the order is issued by the Ministry of IT's Department of Telecom (DoT), and is addressed to all Internet service providers (ISP) like Airtel and BSNL.

6) The order calls for "disablement of the following URLs under the provision of section 79(3)(b) of the Information Technology Act, 2000 as the content hosted on these websites relate to morality, decency as given in the Article 19(2) of the Constitution of India."

7) The order is a result of PIL pending before the Supreme Court, which seeks ban of child porn and other such sites. During the previous hearing of the case, the Court had asked government what action had been taken.

8) "We had given names of 800 websites," said Vijay Panjawani, lawyer of the PIL petitioner. As a counter to those who said the government has no business deciding what an adult does in the privacy of his home, the lawyer said, "How can one say fundamental rights are violated? If I sleep with a prostitute or a boy within the four corners of my room, it is an offense."

9) The Supreme Court recently refused an interim order to block porn websites in India. "Somebody may come to the court and say look, I am above 18, and how can you stop me from watching it within the four walls of my room. It is a violation of Article 21 [right to personal liberty]," Chief Justice HL Dattu reportedly said last month.

10) On Twitter, author Chetan Bhagat and film-maker Ram Gopal Verma are among those campaigning against the ban."Don't ban porn. Ban men ogling, leering, brushing past, groping, molesting, abusing, humiliating and raping women," Bhagat. 

Hmmm.....I don't know if the ban was imposed for 'religious' (Islam) reasons, but banning porn won't stop the rape epidemic in India, there is a rape 'culture' present and it needs re education.

India: Mob storms prison kill alleged rapist

India: Mob storms prison kill alleged rapist. (NDTV).

An alleged rapist, suspected to be an illegal migrant, was thrashed and killed by a mob which stormed the high-security central jail in Nagaland's commercial town of Dimapur, officials said.

Nagaland Chief Minister TR Zeliang told NDTV in the morning that the government has ordered a high-level inquiry into the incident. The Centre has also sought a report from the Nagaland government on the incident.

"No, this is a very unfortunate incident that took place yesterday... Actually the culprit was booked, and forwarded to judicial custody and he was in Central Jail. But despite public asking to extend the interrogation and take action on the culprit. They forcibly they have taken out. So, the security people were overpowered and they could not contain the situation," Mr Zeliang told NDTV on Friday morning.

At least 10 vehicles were also set ablaze by the unruly mob forcing the authorities to clamp curfew in Dimapur district.

Syed Farid Khan, a 35-year-old second hand car dealer, had allegedly raped a 20-year-old Naga woman on February 23 and 24 at different locations. Police arrested Khan on February 25 and later a lower court sent him to judicial custody.

"A mob of around 4,000 people stormed the central jail after breaking the two gates and took the accused out of jail and paraded him naked to the city tower in the heart of Dimapur town, before we could rescue him from the mob," district police chief Meren Jamir told IANS.

He said Khan died after he was badly thrashed by the mob.

"The body was retrieved from the mob after police fired in the air to disperse them," Jamir said. Read the full story here.More here.

Rape[istan] India - Japanese student gang-raped at gunpoint for 12 days in Gaya

Rape[istan] India - Japanese student gang-raped at gunpoint for 12 days in Gaya. (HindustanTimes).

While the rape is alleged to have occurred in December, a team of Kolkata Police, assisted by their Gaya counterparts, arrested the two accused Friday. Three others accused of molesting her were arrested on December 31.

According to joint commissioner of police (crime) Pallab Kanti Ghosh, the woman came to Kolkata on November 20. She was staying at a hotel in Sudder Street. Ghosh said Sahid, alias Japani Sahid, Sabir and Wasim Khan, posing as tour guides, took the woman to Digha, a beach town in Bengal, on November 22.

According to a complaint filed with the Kolkata Police, she was molested by the trio in Digha where they also forced her to withdraw Rs. 75,000 from an ATM.

She then returned to Kolkata on November 26 when Sabir reportedly told her to visit Gaya as she is a Buddhist. He then gave her references of Sahid Khan and Javed Khan, two guides in Gaya. She reportedly reached Gaya on the same day.

According to the woman’s statement before a magistrate, Sahid and Javed took her to Paro where they allegedly confined her in a room and raped her at gunpoint for 12 days. The woman said she managed to escape to Varanasi where she met a group of Japanese tourists.

When she narrated her ordeal to them, some women in the group reportedly told her that they knew Japani Sahid, Sabir and Wasim Khan and had suffered similar experiences.

She later reached Kolkata and with help from the Japanese consulate, met commissioner of police Surajit Kar Purakayastha on December 26.

She lodged a complaint of molestation and fraudulent withdrawal of money. But on December 29, when she was produced before the magistrate to give a statement under Section 164 of the CrPC, she alleged rape by Sahid and Javed.

Japani Sahid, Sabir and Wasim Khan were arrested from Sudder Street on the night of December 31. Their interrogation led the police on the trail of brothers Sahid and Javed, sons of Rashid Khan.

The two had gone into hiding but were arrested from Paro village Friday morning after police intercepted their mobile phone usage, Gaya city DSP Alok Kumar Singh said.

Kolkata Police inspector Anay Bhaumik said Sahid and Javed were part of a crime syndicate that had been targeting foreign tourists in Digha beach of Bengal for a long time.

Video - Women Institutionalized Against their Will in India - "Treated Worse than Animals"

Over 70 million ppl in India w psychosocial disabilities, yet only 43 state mental hospitals 4 them. Treated worse then animals

Women and girls with disabilities in India are forced into mental hospitals and institutions, where they face unsanitary conditions, risk physical and sexual violence, and experience involuntary treatment, including electroshock therapy. The Indian government should immediately order inspections and regular monitoring of all residential facilities – private and government-run – for women and girls with psychosocial or intellectual disabilities. India should also take steps to ensure people with psychosocial or intellectual disabilities can make decisions about their lives and receive treatment on the basis of informed consent. Read the full interview here.

 HT:

What women forced into mental institutions in #India face, interview w @HRW's #disabilities expert Kriti Sharma @ks7s http://t.co/ep0IKsgjkW
— Peter Bouckaert (@bouckap) December 3, 2014

Video - India, two young female students fight back against young men who harassed them.

Full story here at Guardian

Welcome to Rape[Istan] - Two Sisters Allegedly Gang-Raped, Hanged From Tree in UP Village.

Welcome to Rape[Istan] - Two Sisters Allegedly Gang-Raped, Hanged From Tree in UP Village.(NDTV).

Badaun, UP:  Two teen girls were allegedly gang-raped and later hanged from a tree in a village in Uttar Pradesh's Badaun district on Wednesday.

The two girls, who were cousins aged 14 and 15, went missing from their house on Tuesday night. Their bodies were found hanging from a tree in Katra village in Ushait area on Wednesday morning.

The incident triggered protests in the area with villagers alleging police apathy following which an FIR was registered against seven persons including constables Sarvesh Yadav and Rakshapal Yadav, who were suspended.

One of the accused Pappu Yadav has been arrested while others are still absconding, Superintendent of Police, City, Man Singh Chauhan said.

As soon as the news spread, villagers gathered at the site and claimed that police had refused to register an FIR on Tuesday night. They alleged that the girls were gang-raped before they were hanged by the attackers.

Villagers blocked the Ushait-Lilawan road, where they kept the bodies, and demanded suspension of all the policemen posted in Ushait police station.

Later, police controlled the situation and convinced the villagers to lift the blockade.

Two other accused are Brijesh and Awadhesh while two others are unidentified, SP Chauhan said.

Police are awaiting the postmortem report of the two girls.

India - Maharashtra branche of NGO Childline 'Sexually Abused, Made children to Eat Faeces' .

India - Maharashtra branche of NGO Childline 'Sexually Abused, Made children to Eat Faeces'.(NDTV).

Karjat, Maharashtra:  Two people have been arrested after an NGO alleged that few children, aged between 5 and 15, were being sexually abused at a shelter home in Maharashtra's Karjat, close to Pune.

The children, activists alleged, were made to watch pornography and perform sexual acts on each other. In more horrific details, they also told the police that the children were forced to eat human faeces when they were hungry. All of this was also allegedly filmed by an accused.

The accused, Ajit Dabholkar, the founder of Chandraprabha Charitable Trust and his assistant, Lalita Tonde were picked up during a raid by the local police after FIRs were filed by the Pune and Raigad branches of NGO Childline.

The NGO conducted an investigation for almost a month, after the mother of one of the children, a domestic worker, narrated the incident to her employers. Her employers then approached the NGO.

As of now, around six children have given in writing that they were abused.

The accused were presented before a special court in Alibaug, after being arrested on Monday night under various sections of POSCO (Protection of Children From Sexual Offenses Act). They have been remanded to police custody till June 5.

The private shelter home, run by a Trust, housed around 30 children, both boys and girls, most of whom belong to poor families. However, only three children were found at the shelter during the raid, as the rest had gone home for summer vacation.

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] - 51-year-old Danish woman allegedly gang raped at knife-point in Delhi

"Rape[Istan] - 51-year-old Danish woman allegedly gang raped at knife-point in Delhi.(Ndtv).

 A Danish woman was allegedly gang-raped in Delhi late last night, the latest high-profile case of sexual assault in the country. The 51-year-old woman was allegedly attacked by a gang of eight men after losing her way to her hotel in Paharganj, a popular backpacker area.

All eight men have been identified but have not been found, said police sources to NDTV.

The woman has told the police she was held by the men between 4 and 7 pm after which they abandoned her. She then took an auto-rickshaw to her hotel where she confided in a fellow tourist, who asked the owner to phone the police. She says she was robbed and beaten too.
"When she came, she was crying and not in good shape," said the hotel owner.

The woman had approached the group for directions near the New Delhi Railway Station after visiting a museum, but they took her to a secluded spot before raping her.

The woman arrived in Delhi on Tuesday after visiting the Taj Mahal in Agra. This morning, she took a flight back to Denmark.

The case comes weeks after a Polish woman was allegedly drugged and raped by a taxi driver while traveling with her two-year-old daughter to New Delhi.

The incident has left Delhi's ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on the backfoot weeks after it won massive popular support in state polls with its promise to make the city safer for women.

"Ask the central home minister. Delhi Police is under the Centre, not the state government, and it is unable to function effectively," said AAP's Kumar Vishwas, falling back on the same argument that the party had attacked Sheila Dikshit's Congress government for last year . More here.

"Rape[Istan]" - Kolkata: Teen who was gang-raped twice, then set on fire, was pregnant.

"Rape[Istan]" - Kolkata: Teen who was gang-raped twice, then set on fire, was pregnant.(NDTv).

She survived two gang-rapes on consecutive days in October. On Tuesday, the 16-year-old died of serious burns in a hospital in Kolkata. She was pregnant, said police.

Today, for the first time, the Kolkata Police revealed that the third-degree burns that killed her were the result not of a suicide attempt but of murder by two men allegedly known to the gang that had raped her.

This was what the school-girl's broken and furious father alleged in a meeting on Wednesday evening with West Bengal's governor, MK Narayanan. "She was burnt so she could not give her statement in court, so the case against her rapists collapses," said her father.

The admission by the police today places Mamata Banerjee's government in a new controversy, not only because of the teen's horrific ordeal, but because of an ugly attempt by the police to force a cremation for her sooner than her family wanted - an attempt, the opposition Left says, to bury the truth that the girl, twice sexually assaulted, was given no security, which led to her murder.

On Tuesday afternoon, the teen died. Her father, a taxi driver originally from Bihar, is a loyalist of the Left's trade union, CITU, which wanted to organise a public funeral procession.

In a grotesque attempt to stymie that, police tried to hijack the body and organize a hasty cremation. The girl's father however avoided that by refusing to hand over her death certificate.

She was finally cremated on Wednesday evening.

In October, she was gang-raped in the town of Madhyamgram, a 90-minute drive from Kolkata. The next day, she was gang-raped again, allegedly by the same group of six men to punish her for filing a police case.

On December 23, the 16-year-old was set on fire in her house. The police today revealed that before she died, in a statement on December 26 given to investigating officers, she said that two men had poured kerosene and set her alight. The men had been arrested on December 24 on the basis of a First Information Report filed by her father.

The police and the government will now have to explain why this information was not disclosed. The case of rape has now been converted into one of murder.

Pakistan - Woman mutilated for resisting father-in-law’s advances.

Pakistan - Woman mutilated for resisting father-in-law’s advances.(Tribune).

FAISALABAD - A man on Tuesday chopped off his pregnant daughter-in-law’s nose and hair and caused several wounds to her arms and legs, police and witnesses said.

Riasat Ali, a neighbour, said Bashir Ahmad, 50, had tried to rape his pregnant daughter-in-law Atiyya Bibi. He saw Bashir attack Attiya from the roof of his house. He said several people were attracted by her shouting and tried to stop Bashir who managed to flee from the scene.

Rescue 1122 officials were called and took the injured woman to Allied Hospital. Dr Ghulam Rasool of the emergency ward said that the victim was badly injured in the attack and her arms, legs and face bore serious wounds.

Mansoorabad SHO said, “The police have not received a formal complaint. We can only take action after receipt of a complaint and the medical examination report.” Hmmmm......And if you think the living are living a nightmare in Pakistan : Girl’s body removed from grave with intent to rape. Read the full story here.

Rape[Istan] - US charity worker allegedly raped in West Bengal, Rape cases went up by 158 per cent this year in Delhi.

Rape[Istan] - US charity worker allegedly raped in West Bengal, Rape cases went up by 158 per cent this year in Delhi.(NDtv).

Delhi has witnessed a surge in crime against women this year with rape cases recording 158 per cent rise while molestation and eve-teasing incidents went up by 600 and over 700 per cent, respectively.

According to statistics released by Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar today, the national capital reported 463 rape cases this year till April 15 as against 179 during the same period last year.

While molestation cases showed 600 per cent rise this year (from 139 to 973 cases), eve teasing cases increased by 783.67 per cent (from 49 to 433 cases). He also said 85 per cent of rape cases this year have been cracked while the figures for molestation and eve teasing are 86 and 95.8 per cent.

"Is it humanely possible for police to prevent a case like this (the rape of five-year-old girl) when somebody lures a girl into a room (and rape her)? Rapes are opportunistic crimes confined to private space. "97 per cent of rapes are committed in houses. Only three per cent of rapes are committed by strangers," he said.

Police in eastern India have arrested a local businessman for allegedly raping a US charity worker, an official said on Friday, as anger grows over the high incidence of sexual crime in the country.

"Dinesh Burman, 40, was arrested on Thursday after an American woman lodged a complaint with police," said Kaliappan Jayaraman, the police commissioner of Siliguri, in West Bengal, where the crime allegedly occurred.

The US national, in her 50s, said Burman, a land broker and businessman, raped her on April 15 and threatened her with violence if she approached the police, Jayaraman told AFP over the telephone.
Siliguri, which lies in the foothills of the Himalayas, is located 460 kilometres (290 miles) north of Kolkata.

A six-year-old girl was found with her throat slit near a public toilet in the Badarpur area of south Delhi on Friday evening, according to reports. The police say they are awaiting a medical report to confirm if the child was raped.

The girl is currently in critical condition and underwent a three-hour long operation at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences' (AIIMS).

A 13-year-old girl was allegedly drugged and gang-raped by four men at the residence of her friend, also a minor girl, who lives in the same locality in Vakola in western Mumbai.

The girl in her complaint said on Thursday evening one of her girlfriends invited her to her house, where four men, all known to her, were already present. The teen says she was given a drink, spiked with sedatives and as she fell unconscious, the men raped her.

The boys were arrested today, but her friend has not been apprehended as yet. Hmmm.....This town and Country is becoming a hellhole.Read the full story here.

"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.