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3 Young Children Were Raped In New Delhi, India In Just One Week
BY ESTHER YU-HSI LEE
OCT 17, 2015 1:33 PM
CREDIT: AP PHOTO/ TSERING TOPGYAL
Indian youth hold candles during a protest against sexual violence in New Delhi, India, Monday, Feb. 9, 2015.Police were searching Monday for a man who raped a Japanese student sightseeing in northern India, while elsewhere they announced the arrest of eight men suspected of brutally raping and killing a Nepalese woman, as India authorities continue to struggle to address chronic sexual violence. (AP Photo/ Tsering Topgyal)
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Within the span of one week, three young children were raped in New Delhi, India — sparking outrage from city officials and women’s rights activists against the government for failing to protect women and girls against sexual violence in the country.
Two men abducted and raped a 2-and-a-half-year-old child in a west Delhi suburb, who was laterfound unconscious and bleeding in a park three hours after she went missing during a power outage. According to the BBC, she had been raped “at least once.” Meanwhile, a 5-year-old was reportedly gang-raped by three men who lured her to a neighbor’s house in east Delhi. Those two assaults happened a week after a 4-year-old was dumped near a train track after she was raped and slashed with a blade, ABC News reported.
“Repeated rape of minors is shameful and worrying,” Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal wrote on Twitter, blaming Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung for failing to protect the country’s women and girls. “Delhi police has completely failed to provide safety.”
Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) Chairperson Swati Maliwal also blamed the Delhi police and Indian government, stating, “There are huge shortcomings in the law and order situation of the capital. All the agencies of the Centre and the Delhi Government as well should find a solution to it.”
Public awareness about sexual crimes against women and girls in India has become more prominent after the fatal 2012 gang-rape of a 23-year-old student on a moving bus. The victim later died of internal injuries in a hospital. Her death — and the ensuing international outrage about the case — prompted the government to introduce harsh anti-rape laws, like making serial rapists eligible for the death penalty.
Yet despite the crackdown by political figures and police in 2013, not much has changed from 35 years ago, when a court blamed an Indian teenage girl in 1980 for being “an easy virtue” because she was “habituated to sexual intercourse” after two policemen raped her in a police station.
Last year, the head of India’s top investigative agency claimed, “If you can’t prevent rape, you enjoy it.” The Home Minister of Madhya Pradur also blamed a Swiss tourist for her rape because she didn’t tell police of her travel plans. And most recently, when a female journalist asked a politician about crimes against women, he responded, “See, you are here, you are a woman, if someone drags you away and rapes you, what can we in the opposition parties, who are in other parts of the state, do?”
Indian students hold placards and shout slogans during a protest organized to create awareness on gender- based violence on women in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, Dec 10, 2014. The alleged rape by a driver of a taxi-booking service Uber in New Delhi last week, almost two years after a young woman was fatally gang raped on a bus in the capital, has renewed national anger over sexual violence in India and demands for more effort to ensure women’s safety. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
CREDIT: AP PHOTO/RAFIQ MAQBOOL
“The police can’t prevent every case but policing still remains weak in Delhi,” women’s rights activist Ranjana Kumari told The Straits Times. “Their emphasis is on women learning to defend themselves through self-defence classes. How can you teach a four-year-old self-defence?”
The country has a ratio of about one police officer for every 1,000 citizens, about one-third the rate of the global median, Bloomberg News reported.
Last year, the government approved deploying female security guards to “dark stretches” of the city, saying it would set up a Women’s Security Force made up of 10,000 Home Guards and 5,000 marshals on to deter crime on public transportation. But the Aam Aadmi Party recently said that the government still is “not serious” about the security of women. AAP leader Sanjay Singh noted that Delhi police installed 25,000 CCTV cameras for President Obama’s four-day visit and added, “if you could instal [sic] so many cameras for the security of Obama, why can’t you instal [sic] these for the security of the women in the capital.”
New Delhi, known as the country’s rape capital, had 1,441 rape cases in 2013 and 1,813 rapes in 2014, according to The Straits Times. Additionally, a total of 309,546 cases of crime against women were reported in India in 2013, an increase of 26.7 percent from the previous year, according to statistics from the Indian government.
BY ESTHER YU-HSI LEE
OCT 17, 2015 1:33 PM
Indian youth hold candles during a protest against sexual violence in New Delhi, India, Monday, Feb. 9, 2015.Police were searching Monday for a man who raped a Japanese student sightseeing in northern India, while elsewhere they announced the arrest of eight men suspected of brutally raping and killing a Nepalese woman, as India authorities continue to struggle to address chronic sexual violence. (AP Photo/ Tsering Topgyal)
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Within the span of one week, three young children were raped in New Delhi, India — sparking outrage from city officials and women’s rights activists against the government for failing to protect women and girls against sexual violence in the country.
Two men abducted and raped a 2-and-a-half-year-old child in a west Delhi suburb, who was laterfound unconscious and bleeding in a park three hours after she went missing during a power outage. According to the BBC, she had been raped “at least once.” Meanwhile, a 5-year-old was reportedly gang-raped by three men who lured her to a neighbor’s house in east Delhi. Those two assaults happened a week after a 4-year-old was dumped near a train track after she was raped and slashed with a blade, ABC News reported.
“Repeated rape of minors is shameful and worrying,” Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal wrote on Twitter, blaming Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung for failing to protect the country’s women and girls. “Delhi police has completely failed to provide safety.”
Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) Chairperson Swati Maliwal also blamed the Delhi police and Indian government, stating, “There are huge shortcomings in the law and order situation of the capital. All the agencies of the Centre and the Delhi Government as well should find a solution to it.”
Public awareness about sexual crimes against women and girls in India has become more prominent after the fatal 2012 gang-rape of a 23-year-old student on a moving bus. The victim later died of internal injuries in a hospital. Her death — and the ensuing international outrage about the case — prompted the government to introduce harsh anti-rape laws, like making serial rapists eligible for the death penalty.
Yet despite the crackdown by political figures and police in 2013, not much has changed from 35 years ago, when a court blamed an Indian teenage girl in 1980 for being “an easy virtue” because she was “habituated to sexual intercourse” after two policemen raped her in a police station.
Last year, the head of India’s top investigative agency claimed, “If you can’t prevent rape, you enjoy it.” The Home Minister of Madhya Pradur also blamed a Swiss tourist for her rape because she didn’t tell police of her travel plans. And most recently, when a female journalist asked a politician about crimes against women, he responded, “See, you are here, you are a woman, if someone drags you away and rapes you, what can we in the opposition parties, who are in other parts of the state, do?”
CREDIT: AP PHOTO/RAFIQ MAQBOOL
“The police can’t prevent every case but policing still remains weak in Delhi,” women’s rights activist Ranjana Kumari told The Straits Times. “Their emphasis is on women learning to defend themselves through self-defence classes. How can you teach a four-year-old self-defence?”
The country has a ratio of about one police officer for every 1,000 citizens, about one-third the rate of the global median, Bloomberg News reported.
Last year, the government approved deploying female security guards to “dark stretches” of the city, saying it would set up a Women’s Security Force made up of 10,000 Home Guards and 5,000 marshals on to deter crime on public transportation. But the Aam Aadmi Party recently said that the government still is “not serious” about the security of women. AAP leader Sanjay Singh noted that Delhi police installed 25,000 CCTV cameras for President Obama’s four-day visit and added, “if you could instal [sic] so many cameras for the security of Obama, why can’t you instal [sic] these for the security of the women in the capital.”
New Delhi, known as the country’s rape capital, had 1,441 rape cases in 2013 and 1,813 rapes in 2014, according to The Straits Times. Additionally, a total of 309,546 cases of crime against women were reported in India in 2013, an increase of 26.7 percent from the previous year, according to statistics from the Indian government.
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Man rapes teenage daughter in Mumbai's Mira Road
Sandhya Nair | TNN | Dec 29, 2015, 12.33 PM IST
MUMBAI: In separate incidents, two Mira Road based minor girls were allegedly raped, one by the father and the other by her neighbour.
A 15-year-old was allegedly being raped by her father at their Kashimira home since two weeks. The girl's mother was away at their native town. The matter came to light on Monday when the girl raised an alarm on being sexually abused by her father. Neighbours heard her screams and came to her rescue. The father was handed over to the police. The girl has been send for medical examination to ascertain the sexual assault.
In another case, a 17-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her 22-year-old neighbour in Kashimira on Sunday. According to the police, the girl was alone at home. Her mother and brother had stepped out to meet a relative. The accused gained entry into the girl's house and forced himself on her. He threatened her. The girl narrated her ordeal when her mother returned. A case was filed and the accused was arrested.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...in-Mumbais-Mira-Road/articleshow/50364849.cms
Sandhya Nair | TNN | Dec 29, 2015, 12.33 PM IST
A 15-year-old was allegedly being raped by her father at their Kashimira home since two weeks. The girl's mother was away at their native town. The matter came to light on Monday when the girl raised an alarm on being sexually abused by her father. Neighbours heard her screams and came to her rescue. The father was handed over to the police. The girl has been send for medical examination to ascertain the sexual assault.
In another case, a 17-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her 22-year-old neighbour in Kashimira on Sunday. According to the police, the girl was alone at home. Her mother and brother had stepped out to meet a relative. The accused gained entry into the girl's house and forced himself on her. He threatened her. The girl narrated her ordeal when her mother returned. A case was filed and the accused was arrested.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...in-Mumbais-Mira-Road/articleshow/50364849.cms
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Aamir Khan on intolerance: I am alarmed, my wife suggested moving out of India
PTI | Nov 23, 2015, 09.46 PM IST
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NEW DELHI: Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan on Monday joined the chorus of intelligentsia against growing intolerance, saying he has been "alarmed" by a number of incidences and his wife Kiran Rao even suggested that they should probably leave the country.
He also virtually supported those returning their awards, saying one of the ways for creative people to express their dissatisfaction or disappointment is to return their awards.
"As an individual, as part of this country as a citizen, we read in the papers what is happening, we see it on the news and certainly, I have been alarmed. I can't deny. I have been alarmed by a number of incidents," he said while speaking here at the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards.
The actor said he also feels that the sense of insecurity and fear has been growing in the past six or eight months.
"When I chat with Kiran at home, she says 'Should we move out of India?' That's a disastrous and big statement for Kiran to make. She fears for her child. She fears about what the atmosphere around us will be. She feels scared to open the newspapers every day.
"That does indicate that there is this sense of growing disquiet, there is growing despondency apart from alarm. You feel why this is happening, you feel low. That sense does exist in me," 50-year-old Aamir said.
READ ALSO:
No place for intolerance in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi says in UK
The actor said for any society, it is important to have a sense of security and sense of justice.
Taking potshots at politicians, he said "... People who are our elected representatives, people who we select to look after us for five years, state or centre... when people take law into their hands, we look upon these people to take a strong stance, to make a strong statement, speed up the legal process, when we see that happening there is a sense of security but when we don't see that happening there is a sense of insecurity."
Endorsing the move by scientists, writers and filmmakers to return their awards to register their protest against the atmosphere of growing intolerance, he said for creative people it is important to voice what they feel.
"A number of creative people — historians, scientists — increasingly had a certain feeling in them, which they felt they need to express. For creative people, one of the ways of expressing their dissatisfaction or their disappointment is to return their awards. I think that's one way of getting your point across," he said.
When asked whether he endorsed the protests by the people, Aamir said he would as long as it is non-violent as "all individuals have a right to protest and they can protest in any manner that
PTI | Nov 23, 2015, 09.46 PM IST
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NEW DELHI: Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan on Monday joined the chorus of intelligentsia against growing intolerance, saying he has been "alarmed" by a number of incidences and his wife Kiran Rao even suggested that they should probably leave the country.
He also virtually supported those returning their awards, saying one of the ways for creative people to express their dissatisfaction or disappointment is to return their awards.
"As an individual, as part of this country as a citizen, we read in the papers what is happening, we see it on the news and certainly, I have been alarmed. I can't deny. I have been alarmed by a number of incidents," he said while speaking here at the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards.
The actor said he also feels that the sense of insecurity and fear has been growing in the past six or eight months.
"When I chat with Kiran at home, she says 'Should we move out of India?' That's a disastrous and big statement for Kiran to make. She fears for her child. She fears about what the atmosphere around us will be. She feels scared to open the newspapers every day.
"That does indicate that there is this sense of growing disquiet, there is growing despondency apart from alarm. You feel why this is happening, you feel low. That sense does exist in me," 50-year-old Aamir said.
READ ALSO:
No place for intolerance in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi says in UK
The actor said for any society, it is important to have a sense of security and sense of justice.
Taking potshots at politicians, he said "... People who are our elected representatives, people who we select to look after us for five years, state or centre... when people take law into their hands, we look upon these people to take a strong stance, to make a strong statement, speed up the legal process, when we see that happening there is a sense of security but when we don't see that happening there is a sense of insecurity."
Endorsing the move by scientists, writers and filmmakers to return their awards to register their protest against the atmosphere of growing intolerance, he said for creative people it is important to voice what they feel.
"A number of creative people — historians, scientists — increasingly had a certain feeling in them, which they felt they need to express. For creative people, one of the ways of expressing their dissatisfaction or their disappointment is to return their awards. I think that's one way of getting your point across," he said.
When asked whether he endorsed the protests by the people, Aamir said he would as long as it is non-violent as "all individuals have a right to protest and they can protest in any manner that
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Child sexual abuse an 'epidemic,' in India: Delhi high court says
PTI | Oct 1, 2015, 08.08 PM IST
(Representative image: TOI)
NEW DELHI:Terming child sexual abuse as an "epidemic", Delhi high court has said that not only parents, but even trial courts dealing with such cases, should create an atmosphere where the victims can depose truthfully against "sexual perpetrators".
"Children who have suffered sexual abuse at the hands of the sexual perpetrators do not only suffer from physical pain but are also subjected to mental and emotional trauma. The results of child sex abuse are severe and far reaching," justice P S Teji said.
READ ALSO: 30% of kids face sexual abuse in some form
"Child sexual abuse is one of the most pervasive social problems faced by our society. Its impact is profound because of the sheer frequency with which it occurs and because of the trauma brought to the lives of the children who have experienced this crime. Child sexual abuse is an epidemic," the court observed.
The judge's observations came as he dismissed a plea of an accused who sought quashing of an FIR lodged against him by a 12-year-old boy whom he had allegedly sexually abused three years ago.
READ ALSO: Child abuse on the rise, more cases being reported
Refusing to quash the FIR, the court said "apparently, the petitioner (accused) is using all possible weapons to pressurize and to win over the victim i.e. the minor, to tamper with the evidence and to hamper the trial."
Observing that often the child victims and witnesses were compelled by circumstances not to bring true facts before the court, the judge said the trial court should "ensure the examination of the child witness by giving due protection to him and bringing the child out of the pressure".
READ ALSO: Eight cases of child abuse every day but conviction rate at an abysmal 2.4%
"The parents of such victims have even a greater role to play in helping and aiding the child in overcoming the trauma", it said
According to the minor's complaint, he was lured by the accused on the pretext of giving him a job of cleaning vehicles for which he would be paid Rs 4,000 per month.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/i...ow/49185181.cm
PTI | Oct 1, 2015, 08.08 PM IST
(Representative image: TOI)
NEW DELHI:Terming child sexual abuse as an "epidemic", Delhi high court has said that not only parents, but even trial courts dealing with such cases, should create an atmosphere where the victims can depose truthfully against "sexual perpetrators".
"Children who have suffered sexual abuse at the hands of the sexual perpetrators do not only suffer from physical pain but are also subjected to mental and emotional trauma. The results of child sex abuse are severe and far reaching," justice P S Teji said.
READ ALSO: 30% of kids face sexual abuse in some form
"Child sexual abuse is one of the most pervasive social problems faced by our society. Its impact is profound because of the sheer frequency with which it occurs and because of the trauma brought to the lives of the children who have experienced this crime. Child sexual abuse is an epidemic," the court observed.
The judge's observations came as he dismissed a plea of an accused who sought quashing of an FIR lodged against him by a 12-year-old boy whom he had allegedly sexually abused three years ago.
READ ALSO: Child abuse on the rise, more cases being reported
Refusing to quash the FIR, the court said "apparently, the petitioner (accused) is using all possible weapons to pressurize and to win over the victim i.e. the minor, to tamper with the evidence and to hamper the trial."
Observing that often the child victims and witnesses were compelled by circumstances not to bring true facts before the court, the judge said the trial court should "ensure the examination of the child witness by giving due protection to him and bringing the child out of the pressure".
READ ALSO: Eight cases of child abuse every day but conviction rate at an abysmal 2.4%
"The parents of such victims have even a greater role to play in helping and aiding the child in overcoming the trauma", it said
According to the minor's complaint, he was lured by the accused on the pretext of giving him a job of cleaning vehicles for which he would be paid Rs 4,000 per month.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/i...ow/49185181.cm
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INDIA : Stray dog Sodomized by watchman in Thane
Incident of sodomizing a stray dog shocking has left the residents of Thane, not only with a feeling of disgust, but also a sense of insecurity. (Representative image)
THANE: An 18-year-old security guard of Lokpuram complex has been arrested for allegedly sodomizing a stray dog in the area on Friday.
Eye witnesses claimed that around 7pm the accused was found sexually assaulting the female stray dog in his security cabin after switching off the lights and shutting the door.
Utterly disgusted on learning about the act from a friend who had witnessed it, Aditya Nadkarni (21), a resident of the building immediately sought the help of the animal Ngo, Plants and Animal Lovers Society (PALS).
Nadkarni said, "By the time the NGO members were here, a mob of society members had already cornered the accused, ensuring that he doesn't escape. The frightened dog fled the scene."
On their arrival, the members of PAL immediately called the police control office, and accompanied the beat marshalls in taking the accused to the Vartak Nagar police station, where they registered a case of sodomy under section 377 against him.
In the FIR, Aditi Nair the chairman of PAL, penned down the entire incident right from the call the Ngo received from the resident to the details of the incident where the accused was caught with his pants down, quite literally.
He was then questioned by the police official, and soon arrested.
KG Gavit, senior police inspector at the Vartak Nagar police station said this is the first of its kind case and that he had thankfully never seen a case like this throughout his career.
"I have seen cases of men sodomizing small boys, but this is totally new to me. The accused has been remanded to seven days in police custody, and the law will take its course. This is a non-bailable offence," Gavit said. "The accused will soon have to go through a medical test, and the PAL NGO has taken over the responsibility of the dog," he added.
While the dog is now medically fine and is allowed to wander back in her area, she refuses to set foot near the ill-fated security cabin.
The shocking incident has left residents of the area and across Thane, not only with a feeling of disgust, but also a sense of insecurity.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/thane/Stray-dog-Sodomized-by-watchman-i
Incident of sodomizing a stray dog shocking has left the residents of Thane, not only with a feeling of disgust, but also a sense of insecurity. (Representative image)
THANE: An 18-year-old security guard of Lokpuram complex has been arrested for allegedly sodomizing a stray dog in the area on Friday.
Eye witnesses claimed that around 7pm the accused was found sexually assaulting the female stray dog in his security cabin after switching off the lights and shutting the door.
Utterly disgusted on learning about the act from a friend who had witnessed it, Aditya Nadkarni (21), a resident of the building immediately sought the help of the animal Ngo, Plants and Animal Lovers Society (PALS).
Nadkarni said, "By the time the NGO members were here, a mob of society members had already cornered the accused, ensuring that he doesn't escape. The frightened dog fled the scene."
On their arrival, the members of PAL immediately called the police control office, and accompanied the beat marshalls in taking the accused to the Vartak Nagar police station, where they registered a case of sodomy under section 377 against him.
In the FIR, Aditi Nair the chairman of PAL, penned down the entire incident right from the call the Ngo received from the resident to the details of the incident where the accused was caught with his pants down, quite literally.
He was then questioned by the police official, and soon arrested.
KG Gavit, senior police inspector at the Vartak Nagar police station said this is the first of its kind case and that he had thankfully never seen a case like this throughout his career.
"I have seen cases of men sodomizing small boys, but this is totally new to me. The accused has been remanded to seven days in police custody, and the law will take its course. This is a non-bailable offence," Gavit said. "The accused will soon have to go through a medical test, and the PAL NGO has taken over the responsibility of the dog," he added.
While the dog is now medically fine and is allowed to wander back in her area, she refuses to set foot near the ill-fated security cabin.
The shocking incident has left residents of the area and across Thane, not only with a feeling of disgust, but also a sense of insecurity.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/thane/Stray-dog-Sodomized-by-watchman-i
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Four Indian youths Gang rape a Cow for a month, make her pregnant
[TD="colspan: 2"]Kaup: 18-Month-old Calf Allegedly Raped by Four youth - Arrested[/TD]
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[TD="colspan: 2"]By MR, Team Mangalorean
Kaup: Animals don't rape, Humans do! And here is one such incident of an innocent young animal being raped by sex starved foursome youth, which could be termed as one of the disgusted act one could think of. We all have heard of number of rape cases and murder of young girls. Human desires are unlimited, when some men see a beautiful girl, they will stare at her and pass lewd comments. There are some men unable to control their sexual desires stoop to very low levels. Here is a heart wrenching incident that took place at Padoor Labour Colony Majoor, where four young men to fulfil their sexual desire allegedly raped a 18-month-old calf.
According to Narayan Kulal, his 18-month-old calf was raped by four youth on September 21. Kulal said that he had tied the calf in his compound. After sometime the calf was missing from the compound. Kulal along with the locals started to search for his calf in the nearby forest. He was surprised to see the calf in the forest and that it was bleeding. At the same time one youth was found with liquor bottles, coming out from the forest. The locals took the youth into custody and while enquiring he revealed the truth. Other locals were alerted about the incident and three more youth who were also involved in the heinous crime were also taken to custody.
The police were informed about crime. Immediately Shirva Police Inspector Ashok P and team arrived at the spot, before the situation started to get out of control and all the four accused were taken to custody. The Deputy Director of Veterinary Department, Srikanth Fadke and veterinary Doctor Arun Hedge conducted the medical test of the calf. Doctors suspect that the youth had attempted to rape the calf.
Locals and the members of Janajagrati Vedike gathered at the spot and urged the concerned authorities to move the Padoor Crude Oil Labour colony from there.
http://www.india-forums.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=4173885 [/TD]
| Published Date: 21 Sep, 2014 (9:05 PM) | ||
[TD="colspan: 2"]Kaup: 18-Month-old Calf Allegedly Raped by Four youth - Arrested[/TD]
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[TD="colspan: 2"]By MR, Team Mangalorean
Kaup: Animals don't rape, Humans do! And here is one such incident of an innocent young animal being raped by sex starved foursome youth, which could be termed as one of the disgusted act one could think of. We all have heard of number of rape cases and murder of young girls. Human desires are unlimited, when some men see a beautiful girl, they will stare at her and pass lewd comments. There are some men unable to control their sexual desires stoop to very low levels. Here is a heart wrenching incident that took place at Padoor Labour Colony Majoor, where four young men to fulfil their sexual desire allegedly raped a 18-month-old calf.
Locals and the members of Janajagrati Vedike gathered at the spot and urged the concerned authorities to move the Padoor Crude Oil Labour colony from there.
http://www.india-forums.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=4173885 [/TD]
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Rates of Sexual Abuse of India’s Children Shockingly High
by Deepali Gaur Singh, RH Reality Check, Asia
October 12, 2009 - 6:00 am
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The Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire is one of several movies based on the day-to-day struggle for survival of abandoned children and young adults living on the streets of a bustling, uncaring metropolis. At a particularly disturbing portion of the film, the two male child protagonists manage to jump onto a train escaping the chasing mafia and leave behind the female protagonist Latika. One simple exchange at the juncture sums up what her life is going to be henceforth.
Sex trafficking is a far more lucrative industry than begging for girls, which is what will "save" Latika from being blinded, the film suggests. Despite a few films, some books, more studies and innumerable news reports on the controversial and shrouded issue of incest and child abuse, it is only the devastating statistics that tell the true horror of what children in India face on a daily basis. With sex trafficking being a profitable business, sexual abuse in the country is as rampant among boys as it is among girls.
With over 35 million homeless children, and shelters, for only 36,000 of these children, life can be precariously balanced. In Delhi alone, nearly half a million children live on the streets. And against the background of these statistics, the equally disturbing rape cases by teachers at a welfare home in northern India over several months just expose the weaknesses in the system, and the critical need for stronger measures protecting children.
Cases like that of Josef Fritzl in Austria generate shock and horror even as they shatter myths of the home as a safe and secure environment for children.
Recent reports of "The Josef Fritzl of India" were enough to shake audiences across the country when the media exposed the story of a father raping his 12 year old daughter for nine years hit every news channel.
Black magic and greed propelled the horrendous exploitation of his own daughter not just by the tantric (black magic practitioner) father, but in complicity with the mother in the superstitious hope of it bringing them huge wealth. Needless to say that the girl’s nine year long silence created enough space to question her "morals" even as short-lived rumors of her alleged illicit relationship with the tantric, which the parents apparently denied, did a few rounds. One not insignificant part of the story appears to be that only when her younger sister was being made to endure the same ordeal did she expose her parents. But was she truly the Josef Fritzl of India or a media-created headline who happened to be located in the financial capital of the country? How else can one explain the statistics of more than 53 percent of Indian children facing one or more forms of sexual abuse, of which 50 percent is perpetrated by people they know?
Most cases of sexually abused children go unreported, and there is no clear law on the subject except the Goa Children’s Act, which clearly states that child sexual abuse is a widespread problem in India. The enormity of the statistics and the diversity of the incidents disband several myths; that it is a cultural, social or class-specific issue, that not only girls are victimized and that even the safe environments of the home are always safe. What complicates the situation further is the issue of missing children, which again in the face of more serious crimes. A grossly understaffed and overstretched police force are reduced to mere statistics for an annual crime record. It is believed that only 10 percent of the missing cases are registered with police. According to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) every year 7,058 children are reported missing in the national capital region of Delhi accounting for 6.7 percent of the country’s missing children, and earning it the dubious distinction of coming second only to the eastern city of Kolkata. A majority of these children are girls from marginalized communities between 12-19 years of age. With only a small percentage of these missing children recovered every year, it indicates the human trafficking nexus located around the sex and organ trade.
The UN Convention on the Rights of Child, 1989 was ratified by India in 1992. The Women and Child Development (WCD) Ministry has been asked by the Home Ministry to draft a separate law for Indian children to protect their rights along the lines of the Domestic Violence Act for women. Apart from physical abuse, checking sexual abuse and assault of children, as mentioned under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, is also an integral part of the proposed law. The more defined the law incorporates every kind of contact with a child with sexual intent as punishable.
Recently, there have been calls from various quarters asking political parties to make child rights an integral part of their election manifestoes. Some of the demands included amendments in the Indian Constitution to specifically recognize child rights, and a review of the National Policy for Children to cover a plethora of issues like the amendment of the Immoral Traffic Prevention Act by redefining trafficking to include trafficking for child labour, organ transplantation, child pornography, pedophilia, child sexual abuse and even religion-sanctioned practices, it paves the way for an integrated Child Protection Act.
http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2009/10/12/rates-sexual-abuse-indias-children-shockingly-high/
by Deepali Gaur Singh, RH Reality Check, Asia
October 12, 2009 - 6:00 am
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The Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire is one of several movies based on the day-to-day struggle for survival of abandoned children and young adults living on the streets of a bustling, uncaring metropolis. At a particularly disturbing portion of the film, the two male child protagonists manage to jump onto a train escaping the chasing mafia and leave behind the female protagonist Latika. One simple exchange at the juncture sums up what her life is going to be henceforth.
Sex trafficking is a far more lucrative industry than begging for girls, which is what will "save" Latika from being blinded, the film suggests. Despite a few films, some books, more studies and innumerable news reports on the controversial and shrouded issue of incest and child abuse, it is only the devastating statistics that tell the true horror of what children in India face on a daily basis. With sex trafficking being a profitable business, sexual abuse in the country is as rampant among boys as it is among girls.
With over 35 million homeless children, and shelters, for only 36,000 of these children, life can be precariously balanced. In Delhi alone, nearly half a million children live on the streets. And against the background of these statistics, the equally disturbing rape cases by teachers at a welfare home in northern India over several months just expose the weaknesses in the system, and the critical need for stronger measures protecting children.
Cases like that of Josef Fritzl in Austria generate shock and horror even as they shatter myths of the home as a safe and secure environment for children.
Recent reports of "The Josef Fritzl of India" were enough to shake audiences across the country when the media exposed the story of a father raping his 12 year old daughter for nine years hit every news channel.
Black magic and greed propelled the horrendous exploitation of his own daughter not just by the tantric (black magic practitioner) father, but in complicity with the mother in the superstitious hope of it bringing them huge wealth. Needless to say that the girl’s nine year long silence created enough space to question her "morals" even as short-lived rumors of her alleged illicit relationship with the tantric, which the parents apparently denied, did a few rounds. One not insignificant part of the story appears to be that only when her younger sister was being made to endure the same ordeal did she expose her parents. But was she truly the Josef Fritzl of India or a media-created headline who happened to be located in the financial capital of the country? How else can one explain the statistics of more than 53 percent of Indian children facing one or more forms of sexual abuse, of which 50 percent is perpetrated by people they know?
Most cases of sexually abused children go unreported, and there is no clear law on the subject except the Goa Children’s Act, which clearly states that child sexual abuse is a widespread problem in India. The enormity of the statistics and the diversity of the incidents disband several myths; that it is a cultural, social or class-specific issue, that not only girls are victimized and that even the safe environments of the home are always safe. What complicates the situation further is the issue of missing children, which again in the face of more serious crimes. A grossly understaffed and overstretched police force are reduced to mere statistics for an annual crime record. It is believed that only 10 percent of the missing cases are registered with police. According to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) every year 7,058 children are reported missing in the national capital region of Delhi accounting for 6.7 percent of the country’s missing children, and earning it the dubious distinction of coming second only to the eastern city of Kolkata. A majority of these children are girls from marginalized communities between 12-19 years of age. With only a small percentage of these missing children recovered every year, it indicates the human trafficking nexus located around the sex and organ trade.
The UN Convention on the Rights of Child, 1989 was ratified by India in 1992. The Women and Child Development (WCD) Ministry has been asked by the Home Ministry to draft a separate law for Indian children to protect their rights along the lines of the Domestic Violence Act for women. Apart from physical abuse, checking sexual abuse and assault of children, as mentioned under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, is also an integral part of the proposed law. The more defined the law incorporates every kind of contact with a child with sexual intent as punishable.
Recently, there have been calls from various quarters asking political parties to make child rights an integral part of their election manifestoes. Some of the demands included amendments in the Indian Constitution to specifically recognize child rights, and a review of the National Policy for Children to cover a plethora of issues like the amendment of the Immoral Traffic Prevention Act by redefining trafficking to include trafficking for child labour, organ transplantation, child pornography, pedophilia, child sexual abuse and even religion-sanctioned practices, it paves the way for an integrated Child Protection Act.
http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2009/10/12/rates-sexual-abuse-indias-children-shockingly-high/
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Girl students tied Rakhis to boys on city roads to check teasing & Rape
Abhinav Malhotra,TNN | Aug 29, 2015, 10.39 PM IST
NPUR: In a unique initiative to check teasing and harassment, the girls students of a degree college on the occasion of Rakshabandhan tied Rakhis to every male passerby outside the college. The students of DG girls college under the banner of the Kanpur Sakhi Kendra stepped on the roads and stopped boys to tie Rakhi.
Such an initiative got a mixed different response from male passersby. While several people got the Rakhis tied, there were many others who changed their route. Those who got the Rakhis tied vowed to safeguard their newly made sisters. The commoners who were witness to this initiative praised the attempt made.
Neelam Chaturvedi of Sakhi Kendra said that due to the rising cases of teasing and harassment of the girls and women in the city this initiative was introduced wherein the girls were asked to tie Rakhis to the male passersby. She said that teasing is rampant around the schools and the colleges especially during the afternoon hours. She added that such an initiative would actually prevent the rising incidents of crime against women and also would give a social message to the boys.
The girls of the DG college said that this attempt would actually make boys realise that they should not harass the girls as even they have sisters at their homes. Girl students said that this would bring a change in the mindset of the boys who pass lewd remarks against the fairer sex.
In india the unthinkable has already happened and now you people are Masterbating openly like in this case like Hooligans[hilar][hilar][hilar]
You need to do some YONI PUJA and try to get back into the YONI so that you start respecting women again !!
Here women are so scared that they are tieing rakhis to you ogres in order to escape RAPE [hilar][hilar]
Girl students tied Rakhis to boys on city roads to check teasing & Rape
Abhinav Malhotra,TNN | Aug 29, 2015, 10.39 PM IST
NPUR: In a unique initiative to check teasing and harassment, the girls students of a degree college on the occasion of Rakshabandhan tied Rakhis to every male passerby outside the college. The students of DG girls college under the banner of the Kanpur Sakhi Kendra stepped on the roads and stopped boys to tie Rakhi.
Such an initiative got a mixed different response from male passersby. While several people got the Rakhis tied, there were many others who changed their route. Those who got the Rakhis tied vowed to safeguard their newly made sisters. The commoners who were witness to this initiative praised the attempt made.
Neelam Chaturvedi of Sakhi Kendra said that due to the rising cases of teasing and harassment of the girls and women in the city this initiative was introduced wherein the girls were asked to tie Rakhis to the male passersby. She said that teasing is rampant around the schools and the colleges especially during the afternoon hours. She added that such an initiative would actually prevent the rising incidents of crime against women and also would give a social message to the boys.
The girls of the DG college said that this attempt would actually make boys realise that they should not harass the girls as even they have sisters at their homes. Girl students said that this would bring a change in the mindset of the boys who pass lewd remarks against the fairer sex.
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India child sex abuse report: Sita's story
The Indian government has failed to curb the rampant sexual abuse of thousands of children, according to a report by Human Rights Watch. One of them was Sita (not her real name) - a 12-year-old girl living with HIV whose parents were too poor to look after her.
Sita was placed in a small residential facility in Haryana state - the Drone Foundation - that was supposed to give her specialised care.
But she says she was raped by the son of the woman who ran it - a 42-year-old man who also had HIV.
"He used to come drunk. He would take me to a room and say that if I told anybody about this, he would throttle my neck," she told counsellors after she left the facility.
When she told other people about the abuse, she says they slapped her.
In January 2012 an employee at the Drone Foundation called Childline - a telephone helpline for children in distress.
Within hours, the facility was raided by police and the children rescued. The manager and her son, who deny wrongdoing, are on trial.
'Systemic failure'
But Sita's ordeal did not end there.
Haryana state's child welfare committee sent her to another residential home, Apna Ghar, that was run by a respected local charity.
But three months after Sita was placed there, three other children escaped to Delhi and reported shocking levels of abuse.
Investigators heard that Sita had been forced to work as a cleaner, while other children who had been there longer reported violent sexual abuse by the owner and members of staff.
"She used to beat some people naked. Some were hung from the ceiling fan and beaten by her. Others were tied to their bed or the window grill," one girl said.
Some said they had been forced to have sex with policeman and other strangers, and to have abortions.
After the raid the home was closed down, but inspectors from the National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) said Haryana state government should have detected the abuse much sooner.
"The mechanism of monitoring the facilities has actually entirely failed in the state of Haryana. It is not neglect, it is systemic failure," Vinod Tikoo of the NCPCR told Human Rights Watch.
Nine people accused of the abuse, as well as the policeman in charge of the initial investigation, are awaiting trial.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-21366620
- 7 February 2013
- From the sectionIndia
The Indian government has failed to curb the rampant sexual abuse of thousands of children, according to a report by Human Rights Watch. One of them was Sita (not her real name) - a 12-year-old girl living with HIV whose parents were too poor to look after her.
Sita was placed in a small residential facility in Haryana state - the Drone Foundation - that was supposed to give her specialised care.
But she says she was raped by the son of the woman who ran it - a 42-year-old man who also had HIV.
He would take me to a room and say that if I told anybody about this, he would throttle my neckSita, 12, abuse victim
"He used to come drunk. He would take me to a room and say that if I told anybody about this, he would throttle my neck," she told counsellors after she left the facility.
When she told other people about the abuse, she says they slapped her.
In January 2012 an employee at the Drone Foundation called Childline - a telephone helpline for children in distress.
Within hours, the facility was raided by police and the children rescued. The manager and her son, who deny wrongdoing, are on trial.
'Systemic failure'
But Sita's ordeal did not end there.
Haryana state's child welfare committee sent her to another residential home, Apna Ghar, that was run by a respected local charity.
But three months after Sita was placed there, three other children escaped to Delhi and reported shocking levels of abuse.
Investigators heard that Sita had been forced to work as a cleaner, while other children who had been there longer reported violent sexual abuse by the owner and members of staff.
"She used to beat some people naked. Some were hung from the ceiling fan and beaten by her. Others were tied to their bed or the window grill," one girl said.
Some said they had been forced to have sex with policeman and other strangers, and to have abortions.
After the raid the home was closed down, but inspectors from the National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) said Haryana state government should have detected the abuse much sooner.
"The mechanism of monitoring the facilities has actually entirely failed in the state of Haryana. It is not neglect, it is systemic failure," Vinod Tikoo of the NCPCR told Human Rights Watch.
Nine people accused of the abuse, as well as the policeman in charge of the initial investigation, are awaiting trial.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-21366620
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India :In five years, child rapes soar 151%
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In 2014, a spate of child-sexual-abuse cases in Bangalore gained much attention: A six-year-old girl raped by her 37-year-old teacher, a four-year-old girl sexually assaulted by unidentified persons and an eight-year-old girl raped by her 63-year-old teacher, to mention a few.
Splashed in the media and fiercely debated, these cases were only the public manifestation of what is increasingly acknowledged as a largely private crime, with unknown numbers not reported or registered in official statistics.
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Splashed in the media and fiercely debated, these cases were only the public manifestation of what is increasingly acknowledged as a largely private crime, with unknown numbers not reported or registered in official statistics.
Yet, the number of registered child rapes rose 151% from 5,484 in 2009 to 13,766 in 2014, according to the National Crime Records Bureau.
In addition, 8,904 cases were registered nationwide under the Prevention of Sexual Offences Against Children (POCSO) Act and 11,335 under the category "assault on women (girl child) with intent to outrage her modesty under Section 354 IPC (which includes stalking, voyeurism, use of criminal force with an intent to disrobe, etc)", according to the NCRB.
NCRB has started collecting POCSO-specific data only from 2014 onwards only. A simple explanation of the POSCO Act is given here the new law makes it mandatory to report all cases of child sexual abuse.
Madhya Pradesh tops the list in child rapes, followed by Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh (UP).
Source: NCRB
Source: NCRB
There are two major reasons for rising rapes against children over the past four years: First, a rise in reporting; and second, new criminal laws, experts told IndiaSpend.
"Reporting of child abuse and rape cases have increased due to the lowering of the stigma attached, but incidence has also increased, definitely," said Amit Sen, a child and adolescent psychiatrist from Delhi.
The rise of social media has created awareness about child abuse, said Sonali Gupta, a clinical psychologist from Mumbai. "Furthermore, many instances of celebrities opening up about being abused in their childhood (for instance, the actor Kalki Koechin) have also motivated many parents to report abuse," she said.
Simultaneously, the introduction of POCSO in 2012 and the Criminal Law (Amendment) Actin 2013 was instrumental in higher reporting of rape against children-although sexually active teenagers now run the risk of consensual intercourse being classified as rape.
The new definitions of rape
"The definition of rape… now includes many more sexual actions than were earlier classified as sexual assault," said Ved Kumari, a professor at Delhi University's Faculty of Law. She explained how POSCO has raised the age of consent for girls from 16 to 18 years. This means boys who have consensual sex can be charged with rape.
Before the new laws, only "peno-vaginal assault" was considered rape with an excessive emphasis on torn hymens (which continues), according to Shaibya Saldanha, co-founder of Bangalore's Enfold Trust, an advocacy that focuses on child sexual abuse.
"But now, injuries to vagina and other parts are considered as evidence," said Saldanha. "For boys, it was even more difficult as only serious anal injuries would be considered as evidence. POCSO states that a child's testimony and circumstantial evidence will be of paramount importance."
As a consequence, there has been "a huge increase" in child-sexual-abuse cases after the POSCO Act of 2012, said Audrey D'Mello, Project Director at Mumbai's Majlis Law, a legal advocacy.
Source: NCRB
UP tops the list in POCSO cases, accounting for 40% of the total cases, followed by West Bengal and Tamil Nadu.
However, little has changed in rural areas, which are largely untouched by media pressure, political interest and the NGOs who help in registering cases.
"In rural areas, police are extremely reluctant to file a FIR," said Rakesh Senger, Project Director–Campaigns and Victim Assistance, Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA), or Save Childhood Movement, an NGO. "Only extreme cases such as a gang rape or a multiple rapes by a single person are accorded some importance."
Most abuse is by people close or known to children
It is known that about nine of 10 rapes and sexual assaults are carried out by people known to the victim. That holds true in the case of children as well.
As many as 86% of all rapes in 2014 were committed by a person known to the victim, according to the NCRB.
RAHAT is a program by Majlis Law to provide socio-legal support to survivors of sexual assault, so that survivors are not traumatised in the course of investigation and prosecution. This is what they found during a study of 644 cases they handled in Mumbai:
51% of the victims were between 11 years and 18 years old
91% of rapes were committed by known persons and involved long-term abuse
46% of family rapes were by fathers
"We all talk about installing CCTVs and making public spaces, but children are being abused more by known people including family members, therefore, the discourse needs to focus in the right direction," said D'Mello of Majlis Law.
"In most of the cases that come to us… very few cases involve strangers," said Pooja Taparia, founder of Arpan, an NGO that works with affected children.
Therefore, apart from spending quality time with children, parents and schools need to provide sex education to children and empower them to talk about possible abuse.
"Pedophiles target children who are easily accessible (For e.g. [the pedophile could be] a close relative, watchman, guard or school conductor)," said Aarti Rajaratnam, a psychologist from Chennai. "Children who are emotionally vulnerable and needy, whose parents are out for long hours and do not spend quality time with them are most likely to be swayed by pedophiles."
Police, judiciary and hospitals lack sensitivity in dealing with abused children
"Show me the undergarment you were wearing before being raped." This was the demand that a policeman made of a 12-year-old girl in a Jashpur (Chhattisgarh) police station in June this year.
The case was narrated by the BBA's Senger, who has worked with police of several states. He said police frequently threaten or intimidate child victims of sexual abuse, pressuring them to retract statements; in some cases, they try to broker a "compromise" between rapist and victim.
The conviction rates for rape cases, cases under POCSO and assault on women (girl child) with intent to "outrage her modesty" under Section 354 IPC in 2014 were 31.1%, 24% and 29.3% respectively (of cases whose trials have been completed), according to the NCRB.
Data tabled in the parliament reveal 6,816 FIRs (till October 2014) filed under the POCSO Act, with 166 convictions, a rate of no more than 2.4%.
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[TD]406[/TD]
[TD]100[/TD]
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[TD="bgcolor: #CCCCCC"]5527[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #CCCCCC"]1717[/TD]
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[TD]Assault on women (girls) with intent to outrage her modesty[/TD]
[TD]1404[/TD]
[TD]412[/TD]
[TD]29.3[/TD]
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Source: Lok Sabha; Note: It is possible that cases under IPC 376, IPC 354 and POCSO overlap. For instance, in a single rape case, the police might use either IPC 376 or IPC 376+ POCSO or just POCSO. It depends on the discretion of the investigating officer and other factors.
The data might be unclear, but those who deal with abused children make it clear that insensitivity and the unhelpful attitude of police, lawyers and untrained hospital staff makes prosecution and conviction difficult.
"There is absolutely no sensitivity amongst policemen to handle cases of child abuse. POCSO as a law is quite good but it needs to be implemented effectively as well," said Sen, the Delhi psychiatrist.
In several court trials, said Chennai's Rajaratnam, she has witnessed defence lawyers making the process so "unpleasant and humiliating for the children that their trauma increases". Often, parents decide it is better to drop out of the case than traumatise a child further.
D'Mello of Majlis Law believes the only way forward is to work within the system. She explained how Majlis, for years, has provided the Mumbai police training and sensitisation, created standard operating procedures to handle sexual-assault cases, made officers aware of POCSO Act provisions, and helped when they recorded victims' statements.
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[TD]17187[/TD]
[TD]20594[/TD]
[TD]83%[/TD]
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[TD]37519[/TD]
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[TD]8379[/TD]
[TD]7970[/TD]
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It is clear there is much to do. In 2014, 85% of child-rape cases-registered over five years-were pending, as were 95% of POCSO cases and 88% of cases for "outraging modesty", according to the NCRB.
Bringing support systems together-the lesson from Bangalore
It's not just the police and the justice system, hospitals too are not equipped to handle sexual-abuse cases against children. The issues include a lack of privacy for victims and trained staff.
"Another problem is that every stakeholder likes to blame the other stakeholder," said the Enfold Trust's Saldanha. "Police blame the hospital. Hospital blames the police and so on," she said. "Therefore, it is important to bring all stakeholders together, which is why we started Collaborative Child Response Units (CCRU)."
In 2011, Enfold helped set up CCRUs in hospitals, the first such units in India-aimed at providing child victims with proper treatment and social and legal support. A collaboration between Enfold, the government of Karnataka and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), there are now CCRUs in three leading Bangalore hospitals.
These centres also link and train counsellors, medical practitioners, social workers, the judiciary, legal workers, NGOs and the police-with the well-being of the abused child in mind.
Hospitals are clearly a vital link in the chain. "It is necessary to train doctors to handle sexual assault cases as well as document case details," said Shailesh Mohite, Head, Forensic Department at Nair Hospital, Mumbai. "Since their testimony matters a lot, they must be trained to handle cross examination at court."
Social media can endanger children
The exploding growth of social media has increased awareness about child-abuse issues, but it is also endangering the safety of children.
Experts said that exposure to the Internet occurs earlier than ever, and it is important that parents are careful about sharing pictures and details of their children online.
Recently, a series of stories on The News Minute, a new portal, explored how online pictures on Facebook were being used by pedophiles.
"This should be a wake-up call for all of us as parents," said Vidya Reddy of Chennai-based NGO, Tulir-Centre for the Prevention and Healing of Child Sexual Abuse. "There are people interested in our children sexually. Social media are only a reflection of society."
Shakthi V, a popular blogger and writer, has written a post on how parents should guide their children in accessing the internet.
"I know children who fake their age to get on Facebook, there are some who create profiles on all social sites faking their ages," he writes. "This is just one group of kids. There are others who get on to dating sites and get into all sorts of messy things there. The overall conclusion is that kids and the internet are a potent combination that goes very bad."
(Saha is a freelance journalist based in New Delhi.)
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In addition, 8,904 cases were registered nationwide under the Prevention of Sexual Offences Against Children (POCSO) Act and 11,335 under the category "assault on women (girl child) with intent to outrage her modesty under Section 354 IPC (which includes stalking, voyeurism, use of criminal force with an intent to disrobe, etc)", according to the NCRB.
NCRB has started collecting POCSO-specific data only from 2014 onwards only. A simple explanation of the POSCO Act is given here the new law makes it mandatory to report all cases of child sexual abuse.
Madhya Pradesh tops the list in child rapes, followed by Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh (UP).
Source: NCRB
Source: NCRB
There are two major reasons for rising rapes against children over the past four years: First, a rise in reporting; and second, new criminal laws, experts told IndiaSpend.
"Reporting of child abuse and rape cases have increased due to the lowering of the stigma attached, but incidence has also increased, definitely," said Amit Sen, a child and adolescent psychiatrist from Delhi.
The rise of social media has created awareness about child abuse, said Sonali Gupta, a clinical psychologist from Mumbai. "Furthermore, many instances of celebrities opening up about being abused in their childhood (for instance, the actor Kalki Koechin) have also motivated many parents to report abuse," she said.
Simultaneously, the introduction of POCSO in 2012 and the Criminal Law (Amendment) Actin 2013 was instrumental in higher reporting of rape against children-although sexually active teenagers now run the risk of consensual intercourse being classified as rape.
The new definitions of rape
"The definition of rape… now includes many more sexual actions than were earlier classified as sexual assault," said Ved Kumari, a professor at Delhi University's Faculty of Law. She explained how POSCO has raised the age of consent for girls from 16 to 18 years. This means boys who have consensual sex can be charged with rape.
Before the new laws, only "peno-vaginal assault" was considered rape with an excessive emphasis on torn hymens (which continues), according to Shaibya Saldanha, co-founder of Bangalore's Enfold Trust, an advocacy that focuses on child sexual abuse.
"But now, injuries to vagina and other parts are considered as evidence," said Saldanha. "For boys, it was even more difficult as only serious anal injuries would be considered as evidence. POCSO states that a child's testimony and circumstantial evidence will be of paramount importance."
As a consequence, there has been "a huge increase" in child-sexual-abuse cases after the POSCO Act of 2012, said Audrey D'Mello, Project Director at Mumbai's Majlis Law, a legal advocacy.
Source: NCRB
UP tops the list in POCSO cases, accounting for 40% of the total cases, followed by West Bengal and Tamil Nadu.
However, little has changed in rural areas, which are largely untouched by media pressure, political interest and the NGOs who help in registering cases.
"In rural areas, police are extremely reluctant to file a FIR," said Rakesh Senger, Project Director–Campaigns and Victim Assistance, Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA), or Save Childhood Movement, an NGO. "Only extreme cases such as a gang rape or a multiple rapes by a single person are accorded some importance."
Most abuse is by people close or known to children
It is known that about nine of 10 rapes and sexual assaults are carried out by people known to the victim. That holds true in the case of children as well.
As many as 86% of all rapes in 2014 were committed by a person known to the victim, according to the NCRB.
RAHAT is a program by Majlis Law to provide socio-legal support to survivors of sexual assault, so that survivors are not traumatised in the course of investigation and prosecution. This is what they found during a study of 644 cases they handled in Mumbai:
51% of the victims were between 11 years and 18 years old
91% of rapes were committed by known persons and involved long-term abuse
46% of family rapes were by fathers
"We all talk about installing CCTVs and making public spaces, but children are being abused more by known people including family members, therefore, the discourse needs to focus in the right direction," said D'Mello of Majlis Law.
"In most of the cases that come to us… very few cases involve strangers," said Pooja Taparia, founder of Arpan, an NGO that works with affected children.
Therefore, apart from spending quality time with children, parents and schools need to provide sex education to children and empower them to talk about possible abuse.
"Pedophiles target children who are easily accessible (For e.g. [the pedophile could be] a close relative, watchman, guard or school conductor)," said Aarti Rajaratnam, a psychologist from Chennai. "Children who are emotionally vulnerable and needy, whose parents are out for long hours and do not spend quality time with them are most likely to be swayed by pedophiles."
Police, judiciary and hospitals lack sensitivity in dealing with abused children
"Show me the undergarment you were wearing before being raped." This was the demand that a policeman made of a 12-year-old girl in a Jashpur (Chhattisgarh) police station in June this year.
The case was narrated by the BBA's Senger, who has worked with police of several states. He said police frequently threaten or intimidate child victims of sexual abuse, pressuring them to retract statements; in some cases, they try to broker a "compromise" between rapist and victim.
The conviction rates for rape cases, cases under POCSO and assault on women (girl child) with intent to "outrage her modesty" under Section 354 IPC in 2014 were 31.1%, 24% and 29.3% respectively (of cases whose trials have been completed), according to the NCRB.
Data tabled in the parliament reveal 6,816 FIRs (till October 2014) filed under the POCSO Act, with 166 convictions, a rate of no more than 2.4%.
[TABLE="width: 510"]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #FFFF66, colspan: 4"]
POCSO conviction rate
[/TD][/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #CCCCCC"]No. of FIRs registered[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #CCCCCC"]No. of cases in which charge-sheets filed[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #CCCCCC"]No. of cases in which accused convicted[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #CCCCCC"]No. of cases in which accused acquitted[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]6816[/TD]
[TD]5340[/TD]
[TD]166[/TD]
[TD]389[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
[TABLE="width: 510"]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #CCCCCC"]2014[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #CCCCCC"]No. of cases in which trials completed[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #CCCCCC"]No. of convictions[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #CCCCCC"]%age of conviction[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]POSCO[/TD]
[TD]406[/TD]
[TD]100[/TD]
[TD]24.6[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #CCCCCC"]Rape[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #CCCCCC"]5527[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #CCCCCC"]1717[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #CCCCCC"]31.1[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Assault on women (girls) with intent to outrage her modesty[/TD]
[TD]1404[/TD]
[TD]412[/TD]
[TD]29.3[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
Source: Lok Sabha; Note: It is possible that cases under IPC 376, IPC 354 and POCSO overlap. For instance, in a single rape case, the police might use either IPC 376 or IPC 376+ POCSO or just POCSO. It depends on the discretion of the investigating officer and other factors.
The data might be unclear, but those who deal with abused children make it clear that insensitivity and the unhelpful attitude of police, lawyers and untrained hospital staff makes prosecution and conviction difficult.
"There is absolutely no sensitivity amongst policemen to handle cases of child abuse. POCSO as a law is quite good but it needs to be implemented effectively as well," said Sen, the Delhi psychiatrist.
In several court trials, said Chennai's Rajaratnam, she has witnessed defence lawyers making the process so "unpleasant and humiliating for the children that their trauma increases". Often, parents decide it is better to drop out of the case than traumatise a child further.
D'Mello of Majlis Law believes the only way forward is to work within the system. She explained how Majlis, for years, has provided the Mumbai police training and sensitisation, created standard operating procedures to handle sexual-assault cases, made officers aware of POCSO Act provisions, and helped when they recorded victims' statements.
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[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #FFFF66, colspan: 4"]
Pendency In Court Cases For Rapes
[/TD][/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 101, bgcolor: #CCCCCC"]Year[/TD]
[TD="width: 185, bgcolor: #CCCCCC"]No. of cases for trial including pending cases from previous year[/TD]
[TD="width: 104, bgcolor: #CCCCCC"]Pendency at end of year[/TD]
[TD="width: 94, bgcolor: #CCCCCC"]Percentage pendency[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]2010[/TD]
[TD]17187[/TD]
[TD]20594[/TD]
[TD]83%[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #CCCCCC"]2011[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #CCCCCC"]19394[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #CCCCCC"]23181[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #CCCCCC"]84%[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]2012[/TD]
[TD]22812[/TD]
[TD]26972[/TD]
[TD]85%[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #CCCCCC"]2013[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #CCCCCC"]28171[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #CCCCCC"]33328[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #CCCCCC"]85%[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]2014[/TD]
[TD]31976[/TD]
[TD]37519[/TD]
[TD]85%[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
Source: NCRB
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[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #FFFF66, colspan: 3"]
POCSO And Outraging Modesty Cases
[/TD][/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 102, bgcolor: #CCCCCC"]Specific act[/TD]
[TD="width: 285, bgcolor: #CCCCCC"]Total no. of cases for trial including pending cases from previous year[/TD]
[TD="width: 103, bgcolor: #CCCCCC"]Pendency at end of year[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]POCSO[/TD]
[TD]8379[/TD]
[TD]7970[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #CCCCCC"]IPC 354 outraging modesty[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #CCCCCC"]13162[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #CCCCCC"]11607[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
Source: NCRB
It is clear there is much to do. In 2014, 85% of child-rape cases-registered over five years-were pending, as were 95% of POCSO cases and 88% of cases for "outraging modesty", according to the NCRB.
Bringing support systems together-the lesson from Bangalore
It's not just the police and the justice system, hospitals too are not equipped to handle sexual-abuse cases against children. The issues include a lack of privacy for victims and trained staff.
"Another problem is that every stakeholder likes to blame the other stakeholder," said the Enfold Trust's Saldanha. "Police blame the hospital. Hospital blames the police and so on," she said. "Therefore, it is important to bring all stakeholders together, which is why we started Collaborative Child Response Units (CCRU)."
In 2011, Enfold helped set up CCRUs in hospitals, the first such units in India-aimed at providing child victims with proper treatment and social and legal support. A collaboration between Enfold, the government of Karnataka and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), there are now CCRUs in three leading Bangalore hospitals.
These centres also link and train counsellors, medical practitioners, social workers, the judiciary, legal workers, NGOs and the police-with the well-being of the abused child in mind.
Hospitals are clearly a vital link in the chain. "It is necessary to train doctors to handle sexual assault cases as well as document case details," said Shailesh Mohite, Head, Forensic Department at Nair Hospital, Mumbai. "Since their testimony matters a lot, they must be trained to handle cross examination at court."
Social media can endanger children
The exploding growth of social media has increased awareness about child-abuse issues, but it is also endangering the safety of children.
Experts said that exposure to the Internet occurs earlier than ever, and it is important that parents are careful about sharing pictures and details of their children online.
Recently, a series of stories on The News Minute, a new portal, explored how online pictures on Facebook were being used by pedophiles.
"This should be a wake-up call for all of us as parents," said Vidya Reddy of Chennai-based NGO, Tulir-Centre for the Prevention and Healing of Child Sexual Abuse. "There are people interested in our children sexually. Social media are only a reflection of society."
Shakthi V, a popular blogger and writer, has written a post on how parents should guide their children in accessing the internet.
"I know children who fake their age to get on Facebook, there are some who create profiles on all social sites faking their ages," he writes. "This is just one group of kids. There are others who get on to dating sites and get into all sorts of messy things there. The overall conclusion is that kids and the internet are a potent combination that goes very bad."
(Saha is a freelance journalist based in New Delhi.)
http://www.sify.com/news/in-five-years-child-rapes-soar-151-news-national-piylcLacdcdhh.html
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[h=1]Rape – When Animals Fell Prey To Sexually Frustrated Indians[/h]http://www.youngisthan.in/youngies-talk/humans-rape-on-animals-in-india/9782
Sex and rape – the most baffling subject in India…highly ignored and supremely misconstrued.
The topic is not understood and the heinous crimes going on become some debate topics. The problem is the issue of the crime here and yes the mentality of the rapists is something that has to be questioned.
Sexuality is misunderstood and that leads to gruesome crimes.
Sex isn’t rape and rape is a crime. This primary thing needs to be understood to get the psyche of the criminals.
Yes the psyche of the rapists is so damn sickening that even animals have fallen prey to these sexually frustrated ba***rds.
The topic is not understood and the heinous crimes going on become some debate topics. The problem is the issue of the crime here and yes the mentality of the rapists is something that has to be questioned.
Sexuality is misunderstood and that leads to gruesome crimes.
Sex isn’t rape and rape is a crime. This primary thing needs to be understood to get the psyche of the criminals.
Criminals don’t restrict to only girls. The rapists are those horrific predators of the society who wouldn’t even spare the innocent animals.Yes the psyche of the rapists is so damn sickening that even animals have fallen prey to these sexually frustrated ba***rds.
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Rape – When Animals Fell Prey To Sexually Frustrated Indians
http://www.youngisthan.in/youngies-t...-in-india/9782
Sex and rape – the most baffling subject in India…highly ignored and supremely misconstrued.
The topic is not understood and the heinous crimes going on become some debate topics. The problem is the issue of the crime here and yes the mentality of the rapists is something that has to be questioned.
Sexuality is misunderstood and that leads to gruesome crimes.
Sex isn’t rape and rape is a crime. This primary thing needs to be understood to get the psyche of the criminals.
Criminals don’t restrict to only girls. The rapists are those horrific predators of the society who wouldn’t even spare the innocent animals.
Yes the psyche of the rapists is so damn sickening that even animals have fallen prey to these sexually frustrated ba***rds.
Rape – When Animals Fell Prey To Sexually Frustrated Indians
http://www.youngisthan.in/youngies-t...-in-india/9782
The topic is not understood and the heinous crimes going on become some debate topics. The problem is the issue of the crime here and yes the mentality of the rapists is something that has to be questioned.
Sexuality is misunderstood and that leads to gruesome crimes.
Sex isn’t rape and rape is a crime. This primary thing needs to be understood to get the psyche of the criminals.
Criminals don’t restrict to only girls. The rapists are those horrific predators of the society who wouldn’t even spare the innocent animals.
Yes the psyche of the rapists is so damn sickening that even animals have fallen prey to these sexually frustrated ba***rds.
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German professor refuses Indian Intern over "Rape Problem" in INdia Education
Leipzig University's main building, the Augusteum. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Published: 09 Mar 2015 14:48 GMT+01:00
Germany's ambassador to India stepped into a university admissions row after a professor said she wouldn't accept a male Indian student for an internship because of the country's “rape problem”.
She continued defending her position when a friend of his wrote to her in support.
“Reports reach Germany on a weekly base [sic], and especially these 'multi-rape crimes' are threatening, but for me also demonstrate the attitude of a society towards women,” she wrote.
“Of course, we cannot change or influence the Indian society, but only take our consequences here in Europe.”
But she found herself in for more publicity than she bargained for after a friend of the student she rejected posted the emails online.
“I strongly object to this,” Germany's ambassador to India Michael Steiner wrote in an open letter to Beck-Sickinger on Monday.
“Your oversimplifying and discriminating generalization... is an offense to millions of law-abiding, tolerant, open-minded and hard-working Indians.
“Let's be clear: India is not a country of rapists.”
Professor Margret Wintermantel of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) said in a statement on Monday that the Leipzig case was a "regrettable one-off and apparently a huge misunderstanding".
"This case is in no way representative of German universities. They are reliable partners for bringing students from all over the world to Germany.
"In our work, DAAD strives towards an authentic culture of welcome in Germany and for world-wide partnerships."
Beck-Sickinger has since apologized for the email, telling the Huffington Post India that "I apologize if this caused any misunderstanding, but the e-Mail was taken out of the context".
Leipzig University's main building, the Augusteum. Photo: Wikimedia CommonsPublished: 09 Mar 2015 14:48 GMT+01:00
Germany's ambassador to India stepped into a university admissions row after a professor said she wouldn't accept a male Indian student for an internship because of the country's “rape problem”.
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She continued defending her position when a friend of his wrote to her in support.
“Reports reach Germany on a weekly base [sic], and especially these 'multi-rape crimes' are threatening, but for me also demonstrate the attitude of a society towards women,” she wrote.
“Of course, we cannot change or influence the Indian society, but only take our consequences here in Europe.”
But she found herself in for more publicity than she bargained for after a friend of the student she rejected posted the emails online.
“I strongly object to this,” Germany's ambassador to India Michael Steiner wrote in an open letter to Beck-Sickinger on Monday.
“Your oversimplifying and discriminating generalization... is an offense to millions of law-abiding, tolerant, open-minded and hard-working Indians.
“Let's be clear: India is not a country of rapists.”
Professor Margret Wintermantel of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) said in a statement on Monday that the Leipzig case was a "regrettable one-off and apparently a huge misunderstanding".
"This case is in no way representative of German universities. They are reliable partners for bringing students from all over the world to Germany.
"In our work, DAAD strives towards an authentic culture of welcome in Germany and for world-wide partnerships."
Beck-Sickinger has since apologized for the email, telling the Huffington Post India that "I apologize if this caused any misunderstanding, but the e-Mail was taken out of the context".
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[h=2]Rising dalit atrocities in India worry rights groups[/h]
According to the National Campaign for Dalit Human Rights, every year 13,000-15,000 cases of atrocities against dalits and 3,000-3,500 cases of 'untouchability' are registered in India
Even after the abolition of the caste system, more than half a century ago, dalits or 'untouchables' continue to face caste discrimination.
Two recent instances of harassment in the western Indian state of Gujarat have prompted the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), a Hong Kong-based rights body, to urge the Indian government to take urgent action against anti-dalit practices still being followed in the country. "Fifty-six years after India's independence, the country is still suffering from caste discrimination and inequality," says the AHRC.
In December 2003, three dalit teachers were transferred for protesting against caste-wise seating arrangements during lunch at their school. This was followed by the suspected suicide of a dalit man whose wife Gangaben Maru, an elected village head, was being threatened by her upper caste political rivals.
That very month two dalit boys were killed, allegedly by members of an upper caste community in Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh, because they had won a cricket match says a report by the New Delhi-based Indian rights group People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL).
"This is a very discouraging situation for dalits," says S K Thorat, professor of economics at Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University. "Atrocities against dalits are rampant in society."
Thorat, who is associated with the National Campaign for Dalit Human Rights, an umbrella body of dalit groups in India, points out that, every year, between 13,000 and 15,000 cases of atrocities against dalits, and 3,000-3,500 cases of 'untouchability' are registered in India. "And this is just a fraction of the actual number of incidents of violence that take place throughout the country," he stresses.
A soon-to-be-published report by the global non-governmental organisation, Action Aid, states that dalits are often harassed if they assert their rights. Violence against dalits ranges from rape and murder to economic and social boycott. In the case of the dalit schoolteachers, for instance, villagers refused to send their children to the school where the dalits taught until the teachers were transferred out to another school in another area.
Thorat points out that the Indian government has resisted efforts by dalit groups and other human rights bodies to highlight the issue of discrimination against dalits at an international conference against racism held in the South African city of Durban in 2001.
The AHRC has launched a campaign to press for the rights of dalits by sending letters to the heads of leading Indian institutions such as the National Human Rights Commission and the National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Tribes as well as the United Nations, for action to be taken against those violating the rights of dalits. It has also urged the Indian government to set up an independent body to investigate and try "the offenders of such gross violations of human rights".
Meanwhile, the mysterious disappearance of a dalit sarpanch Karan Singh from the Brahmin-dominated Pehrewar village in Haryana's Rohtak district four months ago has further highlighted the issue. For the past 60 days people have been on a dharna protesting police inaction in the case. The police allegedly refused to lodge an FIR for over a month after the incident took place. The people are demanding a CBI inquiry.
Dalit atrocities are rampant in Haryana. In October 2002, five dalits were lynched in Duleena village in Jhajjar district. Two hundred dalit families fled their homes in Harsola village in Kaithal district after being attacked. And, a few months ago, a woman dalit sarpanch was beaten in public in Gandhra village in Rohtak district.
Source: www.oneworld.net, February 4, 2004
-- www.ndtv.com, February 15, 2004
According to the National Campaign for Dalit Human Rights, every year 13,000-15,000 cases of atrocities against dalits and 3,000-3,500 cases of 'untouchability' are registered in India
Even after the abolition of the caste system, more than half a century ago, dalits or 'untouchables' continue to face caste discrimination.
Two recent instances of harassment in the western Indian state of Gujarat have prompted the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), a Hong Kong-based rights body, to urge the Indian government to take urgent action against anti-dalit practices still being followed in the country. "Fifty-six years after India's independence, the country is still suffering from caste discrimination and inequality," says the AHRC.
In December 2003, three dalit teachers were transferred for protesting against caste-wise seating arrangements during lunch at their school. This was followed by the suspected suicide of a dalit man whose wife Gangaben Maru, an elected village head, was being threatened by her upper caste political rivals.
That very month two dalit boys were killed, allegedly by members of an upper caste community in Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh, because they had won a cricket match says a report by the New Delhi-based Indian rights group People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL).
"This is a very discouraging situation for dalits," says S K Thorat, professor of economics at Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University. "Atrocities against dalits are rampant in society."
Thorat, who is associated with the National Campaign for Dalit Human Rights, an umbrella body of dalit groups in India, points out that, every year, between 13,000 and 15,000 cases of atrocities against dalits, and 3,000-3,500 cases of 'untouchability' are registered in India. "And this is just a fraction of the actual number of incidents of violence that take place throughout the country," he stresses.
A soon-to-be-published report by the global non-governmental organisation, Action Aid, states that dalits are often harassed if they assert their rights. Violence against dalits ranges from rape and murder to economic and social boycott. In the case of the dalit schoolteachers, for instance, villagers refused to send their children to the school where the dalits taught until the teachers were transferred out to another school in another area.
Thorat points out that the Indian government has resisted efforts by dalit groups and other human rights bodies to highlight the issue of discrimination against dalits at an international conference against racism held in the South African city of Durban in 2001.
The AHRC has launched a campaign to press for the rights of dalits by sending letters to the heads of leading Indian institutions such as the National Human Rights Commission and the National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Tribes as well as the United Nations, for action to be taken against those violating the rights of dalits. It has also urged the Indian government to set up an independent body to investigate and try "the offenders of such gross violations of human rights".
Meanwhile, the mysterious disappearance of a dalit sarpanch Karan Singh from the Brahmin-dominated Pehrewar village in Haryana's Rohtak district four months ago has further highlighted the issue. For the past 60 days people have been on a dharna protesting police inaction in the case. The police allegedly refused to lodge an FIR for over a month after the incident took place. The people are demanding a CBI inquiry.
Dalit atrocities are rampant in Haryana. In October 2002, five dalits were lynched in Duleena village in Jhajjar district. Two hundred dalit families fled their homes in Harsola village in Kaithal district after being attacked. And, a few months ago, a woman dalit sarpanch was beaten in public in Gandhra village in Rohtak district.
Source: www.oneworld.net, February 4, 2004
-- www.ndtv.com, February 15, 2004
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Trolled, Naseeruddin Shah says being targeted for being Muslim in India
TNN | Oct 15, 2015, 10.20 AM IST
Trolled, Naseeruddin Shah says being targeted for being Muslim
01:52
NEW DELHI: Veteran Bollywood actor Naseeruddin Shah, who was trolled on Twitter for his comments during former Pakistan foreign minister Khurshid Kasuri's book launch two days ago, on Wednesday said he was targeted for being a Muslim. He said he was proud to be an Indian and he would not allow anybody to question his patriotism.
Expressing his dismay over the controversy that has erupted over his participation in the event in Mumbai on Monday, the actor said it was the first time that he was reminded of his Muslim identity.
"My name is Naseeruddin Shah and I believe that's why I was targeted. It really pains me to say this. I have never ever been aware of my identity until now," the 66-year-old actor told a TV news channel.
The book launch was attended, among others, by noted lawyer and historian A G Noorani, journalist Dileep Padgaonkar and Shah, who were panelists at the event. The book was launched amid strong protests by Shiv Sena.
When asked about his view on writers returning their awards protesting against what they believe is a climate of rising intolerance in the country under the present central government, Shah said, "I wish that the protest had been made through their work. I wish those writers, instead of returning their awards, had written more strongly on what is happening to India in protest."
"Awards mean nothing to me and therefore I won't bother returning them," Shah, a recipient of Padma Bhushan, Sangeet Natak Akademi and other prestigious awards, said.
The actor said he was left "dejected" with the way he was misunderstood and misreported in the media about his comments on Pakistan. He said, "I was quite astounded that what I said was reported on news channel where everything I stated was interpreted as being anti-Indian and there was nothing of the sort that I had actually said.
"What A G Noorani and Dileep Padgaonkar said was not quoted at all and they raised far more pertinent points than I did. But what they said was ignored, only what I said was dwelt on. I don't understand why I am being picked on."
"Four generations of my family have lived in India. I am proud to be an Indian and I will not allow anybody to question my patriotism," Shah said, asking what was so "anti-Indian" about praising the good things about Pakistan. The actor further said, "I do not actually understand that why anything said as a compliment to Pakistan must be construed as anti-Indian."
TNN | Oct 15, 2015, 10.20 AM IST
Trolled, Naseeruddin Shah says being targeted for being Muslim
01:52
NEW DELHI: Veteran Bollywood actor Naseeruddin Shah, who was trolled on Twitter for his comments during former Pakistan foreign minister Khurshid Kasuri's book launch two days ago, on Wednesday said he was targeted for being a Muslim. He said he was proud to be an Indian and he would not allow anybody to question his patriotism.
Expressing his dismay over the controversy that has erupted over his participation in the event in Mumbai on Monday, the actor said it was the first time that he was reminded of his Muslim identity.
"My name is Naseeruddin Shah and I believe that's why I was targeted. It really pains me to say this. I have never ever been aware of my identity until now," the 66-year-old actor told a TV news channel.
The book launch was attended, among others, by noted lawyer and historian A G Noorani, journalist Dileep Padgaonkar and Shah, who were panelists at the event. The book was launched amid strong protests by Shiv Sena.
When asked about his view on writers returning their awards protesting against what they believe is a climate of rising intolerance in the country under the present central government, Shah said, "I wish that the protest had been made through their work. I wish those writers, instead of returning their awards, had written more strongly on what is happening to India in protest."
"Awards mean nothing to me and therefore I won't bother returning them," Shah, a recipient of Padma Bhushan, Sangeet Natak Akademi and other prestigious awards, said.
The actor said he was left "dejected" with the way he was misunderstood and misreported in the media about his comments on Pakistan. He said, "I was quite astounded that what I said was reported on news channel where everything I stated was interpreted as being anti-Indian and there was nothing of the sort that I had actually said.
"What A G Noorani and Dileep Padgaonkar said was not quoted at all and they raised far more pertinent points than I did. But what they said was ignored, only what I said was dwelt on. I don't understand why I am being picked on."
"Four generations of my family have lived in India. I am proud to be an Indian and I will not allow anybody to question my patriotism," Shah said, asking what was so "anti-Indian" about praising the good things about Pakistan. The actor further said, "I do not actually understand that why anything said as a compliment to Pakistan must be construed as anti-Indian."
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Is modi's India safe for Muslims
This past March, a group of community activists in Aurangabad, an industrial city in central India, convened a morcha — a demonstration — to protest a series of blatantly anti-Muslim measures taken by the state government in Mumbai, which is controlled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The morcha operated according to a well-worn protocol: A colorful tent was erected in a vacant lot across the street from the office of the district commissioner, and 250 or so Muslim men sat in the shade while a succession of speakers — a very long succession of speakers — denounced the state government and called for civil disobedience, in the spirit of Gandhi’s famed Salt March against the British, should their demands not be met.
The leaders of the demonstration then walked up a long driveway to formally present their demands to the district commissioner, who promised to relay them to the Maharashtra state authorities. The humble folk stayed back in the tent so as not to block traffic. Quite a few of them were qureish — cattle butchers — who had lost their jobs when the government had banned the consumption of beef the week before. They were trying to figure out how they were going to feed their families or send their kids to school. And they were wondering who, if anyone, would protect their interests amid India’s new politics of Hindu chauvinism.
Over the last year, since Modi became prime minister, the news out of India has focused almost entirely on his struggle to open up India’s economy and attract foreign investment. That has been reassuring both for many Indians and for economic partners abroad. But Modi is himself a product of the militant, trident-shaking ideological parent of the BJP known as the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). He was chief minister of Gujarat state in 2002 when Hindu mobs killed more than 1,000 Muslims, and he was blamed for failing to stem the violence. The RSS chauvinists, who dream of a Hindu-dominant India, adore him as their champion. That is precisely what India’s Muslims fear.
India’s Muslims have noted every apparent straw in the wind. And there have been many of late. In March alone: Subramanian Swamy, a senior BJP leader from the southern state of Tamil Nadu, declared in a speech that mosques, unlike temples, are not holy places and thus can be demolished. Two days later, the BJP chief minister of the northern state of Haryana announced that the teaching of the Bhagavad Gita, the Hindu holy text, would become mandatory throughout the state. A number of churches were vandalized. A 71-year-old nun in the eastern state of West Bengal was gang-raped. And the beef-ban movement was spreading to new states.
India, of course, contains multitudes, and these incidents could be dismissed as the usual turbulence. Modi has conducted himself with remarkable circumspection, reassuring Muslims and other minorities about their place in Indian society, avoiding loaded or ambivalent language, and building bridges with Pakistan. He has not, however, tried to stop BJP state governments from pursuing a more nationalist agenda or has done much to curb inflammatory rhetoric. India has survived, and thrived, as a multiconfessional, multicultural nation because of a shared faith in secular principles enshrined in the country’s constitution. But India’s Muslims, who have worn that secular identity as a suit of armor in Hindu India, now feel more vulnerable than they have in many years.
This past March, a group of community activists in Aurangabad, an industrial city in central India, convened a morcha — a demonstration — to protest a series of blatantly anti-Muslim measures taken by the state government in Mumbai, which is controlled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The morcha operated according to a well-worn protocol: A colorful tent was erected in a vacant lot across the street from the office of the district commissioner, and 250 or so Muslim men sat in the shade while a succession of speakers — a very long succession of speakers — denounced the state government and called for civil disobedience, in the spirit of Gandhi’s famed Salt March against the British, should their demands not be met.
The leaders of the demonstration then walked up a long driveway to formally present their demands to the district commissioner, who promised to relay them to the Maharashtra state authorities. The humble folk stayed back in the tent so as not to block traffic. Quite a few of them were qureish — cattle butchers — who had lost their jobs when the government had banned the consumption of beef the week before. They were trying to figure out how they were going to feed their families or send their kids to school. And they were wondering who, if anyone, would protect their interests amid India’s new politics of Hindu chauvinism.
Over the last year, since Modi became prime minister, the news out of India has focused almost entirely on his struggle to open up India’s economy and attract foreign investment. That has been reassuring both for many Indians and for economic partners abroad. But Modi is himself a product of the militant, trident-shaking ideological parent of the BJP known as the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). He was chief minister of Gujarat state in 2002 when Hindu mobs killed more than 1,000 Muslims, and he was blamed for failing to stem the violence. The RSS chauvinists, who dream of a Hindu-dominant India, adore him as their champion. That is precisely what India’s Muslims fear.
India’s Muslims have noted every apparent straw in the wind. And there have been many of late. In March alone: Subramanian Swamy, a senior BJP leader from the southern state of Tamil Nadu, declared in a speech that mosques, unlike temples, are not holy places and thus can be demolished. Two days later, the BJP chief minister of the northern state of Haryana announced that the teaching of the Bhagavad Gita, the Hindu holy text, would become mandatory throughout the state. A number of churches were vandalized. A 71-year-old nun in the eastern state of West Bengal was gang-raped. And the beef-ban movement was spreading to new states.
India, of course, contains multitudes, and these incidents could be dismissed as the usual turbulence. Modi has conducted himself with remarkable circumspection, reassuring Muslims and other minorities about their place in Indian society, avoiding loaded or ambivalent language, and building bridges with Pakistan. He has not, however, tried to stop BJP state governments from pursuing a more nationalist agenda or has done much to curb inflammatory rhetoric. India has survived, and thrived, as a multiconfessional, multicultural nation because of a shared faith in secular principles enshrined in the country’s constitution. But India’s Muslims, who have worn that secular identity as a suit of armor in Hindu India, now feel more vulnerable than they have in many years.
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[h=1]Fleeing ‘Persecution’: 48 Pakistani Hindus arrive in India – never to return home[/h]Published: September 25, 2012
There has been a sharp surge in the number of Hindus fleeing alleged religious persecution and discrimination in Pakistan. DESIGN: FAIZAN DAWOOD
JAIPUR: Dozens of Pakistani Hindu pilgrims who arrived in the Indian state of Rajasthan on Sunday say they don’t want to go back, BBC Urdu reported on Monday.
A group of 48 Pakistani Hindus, travelling on board “Thar Express” train, reached Jodhpur city on Sunday. They have joined 347 Pakistani Hindus who are already staying in a temporary shelter in the city.
Half of the new arrivals belong to the Raikas clan – who are shepherds by profession. This is the first time that Raikas clansmen have travelled to India from Pakistan.
Earlier this month, 171 Hindu pilgrims, mostly from the Bheel community of Sindh, reached Jodhpur and refused to return, citing religious persecution at home.
The chief of Seemant Lok Sangthan (SLS), an organisation that works for the welfare of Hindus, said the pilgrims had nothing to eat. “The SLS is arranging food and shelter for them. Regrettably, no help is forthcoming from the government,” said social activist Hindu Singh Sodha.
These pilgrims complain about miserable living conditions and religious persecution in Pakistan.
Harak Chand, who hails from Sanghar district of Sindh, told the BBC that he had come to India with his wife and eight children to visit Hari Dwar Temple but he does not have money to perform the pilgrimage. “In fact, I am penniless,” he said.
There has been a sharp surge in the number of Hindus fleeing alleged religious persecution and discrimination in Pakistan.
Last week, a group of Pakistani Hindus staged a peace march to draw world attention towards their plight. They also met with Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gilhot who assured them of his support.
Recently, India started granting citizenship to those Pakistani Hindus who have completed seven-year stay in India. Authorities say 900 Pakistani citizens are eligible to apply for Indian citizenship. They include the Hindus who arrived in India before December 2004 and never returned.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 25[SUP]th[/SUP], 2012.
[h=1]Fleeing ‘Persecution’: 48 Pakistani Hindus arrive in India – never to return home[/h]Published: September 25, 2012
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JAIPUR: Dozens of Pakistani Hindu pilgrims who arrived in the Indian state of Rajasthan on Sunday say they don’t want to go back, BBC Urdu reported on Monday.
A group of 48 Pakistani Hindus, travelling on board “Thar Express” train, reached Jodhpur city on Sunday. They have joined 347 Pakistani Hindus who are already staying in a temporary shelter in the city.
Half of the new arrivals belong to the Raikas clan – who are shepherds by profession. This is the first time that Raikas clansmen have travelled to India from Pakistan.
Earlier this month, 171 Hindu pilgrims, mostly from the Bheel community of Sindh, reached Jodhpur and refused to return, citing religious persecution at home.
The chief of Seemant Lok Sangthan (SLS), an organisation that works for the welfare of Hindus, said the pilgrims had nothing to eat. “The SLS is arranging food and shelter for them. Regrettably, no help is forthcoming from the government,” said social activist Hindu Singh Sodha.
These pilgrims complain about miserable living conditions and religious persecution in Pakistan.
Harak Chand, who hails from Sanghar district of Sindh, told the BBC that he had come to India with his wife and eight children to visit Hari Dwar Temple but he does not have money to perform the pilgrimage. “In fact, I am penniless,” he said.
There has been a sharp surge in the number of Hindus fleeing alleged religious persecution and discrimination in Pakistan.
Last week, a group of Pakistani Hindus staged a peace march to draw world attention towards their plight. They also met with Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gilhot who assured them of his support.
Recently, India started granting citizenship to those Pakistani Hindus who have completed seven-year stay in India. Authorities say 900 Pakistani citizens are eligible to apply for Indian citizenship. They include the Hindus who arrived in India before December 2004 and never returned.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 25[SUP]th[/SUP], 2012.
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Growing Muslim, Christian Populations Are A Threat To India Requiring Forced Family Planning, Hindu Nationalism Leaders Claim
[FONT=source_sans_proregular]BY [FONT=source_sans_probold]CRISTINA SILVA @CRISTYMSILVA [/FONT]ON 04/15/15 AT 8:51 AM[/FONT]
[FONT=source_sans_proregular]A Muslim man reads the Koran as he sits in front of a billboard featuring India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi on a pavement along a road in New Delhi January 20, 2015.[FONT=source_sans_proregular]PHOTO: REUTERS[/FONT][FONT=source_sans_proregular]Growing Muslim and Christian populations in India are a threat to Hindus and should be required to adhere to forced family planning, a far-right political party said Wednesday. Shiv Sena had previously supported an effort to require such religious minorities to undergo sterilization to limit their population growth.
"It is in the best interests of the country and the Muslim community... With family planning, they will be able to feed and educate the children and live better lives," Shiv Sena parliamentarian Sanjay Raut wrote in a newspaper editorial, according to local media reports. The editorial asked Muslim leaders to adopt family planning and save the nation, India Today reported. The editorial continued: "In the near future, the Muslim population of India will exceed the number of Muslims in Indonesia and Pakistan, which will result in the cultural and social imbalance of a Hindu nation."
The Muslim community in India soared 24 percent from 2001 to 2011, growing to roughly 14.2 percent of India's population, according to census date published in January. States with growing Muslim populations included Kerala, Goa, Haryana and Delhi, according to the Times of India. In all, India is expected to overtake Indonesia as the country with the largest Muslim population by 2050, according to a recent Pew Research Center study.
Last year, the watchdog group International Christian Concern warned that nationalist groups in India were increasingly targeting Christians with hate speech and attacks on pastors and churches. "There has been a sharp rise in hate campaigns against Christians by political organizations," John Dayal, a member of the Indian government's National Integration Council, said at the time. "This threat of purging Christians from villages extends from Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh to now Uttar Pradesh, and to the borders of the national capital of New Delhi."
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"It is in the best interests of the country and the Muslim community... With family planning, they will be able to feed and educate the children and live better lives," Shiv Sena parliamentarian Sanjay Raut wrote in a newspaper editorial, according to local media reports. The editorial asked Muslim leaders to adopt family planning and save the nation, India Today reported. The editorial continued: "In the near future, the Muslim population of India will exceed the number of Muslims in Indonesia and Pakistan, which will result in the cultural and social imbalance of a Hindu nation."
The Muslim community in India soared 24 percent from 2001 to 2011, growing to roughly 14.2 percent of India's population, according to census date published in January. States with growing Muslim populations included Kerala, Goa, Haryana and Delhi, according to the Times of India. In all, India is expected to overtake Indonesia as the country with the largest Muslim population by 2050, according to a recent Pew Research Center study.
Last year, the watchdog group International Christian Concern warned that nationalist groups in India were increasingly targeting Christians with hate speech and attacks on pastors and churches. "There has been a sharp rise in hate campaigns against Christians by political organizations," John Dayal, a member of the Indian government's National Integration Council, said at the time. "This threat of purging Christians from villages extends from Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh to now Uttar Pradesh, and to the borders of the national capital of New Delhi."
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Warning of rising Muslim anger over discrimination in India
| By Zakir Hussain http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,4386,206813,00.html MONDAY'S bomb blasts in Mumbai are the latest in a series of flashpoints that have contributed to friction between Hindus and Muslims in India, which has been mounting over the past decade. Early this month, Time magazine eerily forewarned that mounting fury over religious discrimination by the Hindu majority was triggering an increasingly violent Muslim backlash. The article noted that the war on terror and the 1998 election of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on a Hindu-nationalist agenda had lent a veil of legitimacy to lurking anti-Muslim prejudice. Although Indian Muslims had their high achievers, such as President Abdul Kalam, India's richest man Azim Premji and a host of Bollywood stars, it said, the largely poorer and marginalised Muslims were more likely than Hindus to be victims of violent attacks. This has fuelled a sense of alienation and resentment among many Muslims, who felt that communal riots in Gujarat last year showed how inhospitable India had become to them. In those riots which left some 2,000 dead, 85 per cent of those who died and the properties destroyed were Muslim, reported Time. Human rights groups accused the ruling BJP in Gujarat of standing idly by during violence against Muslims. Mr Chhagan Bhujbal, deputy chief minister of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, told New Delhi Television 'there is no doubt' Monday's attacks were linked to those riots. They started after Muslims attacked a train carrying a group of Hindu activists returning from Ayodhya, killing 59 people. Mr Aakar Patel, editor of Bombay's largest tabloid Mid-Day, told UPI: 'Hindu-Muslim relations, already low since the riots in Gujarat, will worsen, especially since at least one of these blasts is seen as being targeted at Mumbai's Gujarati migrants.' A senior Muslim militant, whose group was made up of former members of the banned Student Islamic Movement of India, told Time that Gujarat was a breaking point, and 'if the government continues on this path, we will go to any extreme'. Many regard the destruction of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya by Hindu zealots in 1992 as the point when Hindu-Muslim relations in India went sharply downhill. That incident led to communal riots across India. It also saw a series of bomb blasts in Mumbai in March 1993 that killed some 300 people and injured more than 1,000. Monday's blasts are certain to adversely affect Hindu-Muslim relations. Prominent historian Ramachandra Guha told The Guardian: 'This will strengthen the hand of hardliners within the BJP who want to fight the next election on an anti-Muslim platform.' |
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