New Delhi police fire water cannon at India rape protest

[Cherokee]

 

[Enemy]

"I am a rapist" singer Honey Singh booked for crime, FIR lodged.

Rapper Honey Singh booked for 'vulgar' song - The Times of India

This "rapist" singer will know what is coming to him in due course of time.

 

[Enemy]

Death sentence and Chemical castration for rapists in Tamil Nadu?

Jayalalithaa issues steps for women's safety, demands death for rapists- Politics News- IBNLive

Chennai: Tamil Nadu has become the first state to issue tough measures to deal with crimes against women after the horrific Delhi gangrape shocked the nation. In a statement, Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has asked for existing laws to be amended to allow for chemical castration and death to rapists.

She has promised fast-track Mahila courts as well and an exclusive helpline. Police in civilian clothing will be deployed at places where women turn out in large numbers as well.

Jayalalithaa, in a statement, mentioned a slew of measures that would be undertaken to ensure safety of women in Tamil Nadu.

"Sexual harassment against women will be considered as a grave crime and will be investigated under the supervision of the senior level police officers. Sexual harassment cases will be viewed by district SPs and range DIG on a monthly basis. All pending cases in court and investigations on sexual harassment and rape cases will be reviewed by top police officials and speed up the process to get justice," the statement said.

It added, "Goondas Act in Tamil Nadu will be amended to punish rapists. Fast track Mahila courts will be set up in all districts to deal with crime against women and women advocates will be appointed as government's pleaders.

"The state would ask for existing laws should be amended to pronounce chemical castration and death sentence for rapists. The Tamil Nadu will undertake medical expenses of rape and sexual harassment victims and provide rehabilitation."

The statement added that an exclusive helpline for women will be launched as soon as possible. "CCTV cameras will be used to identify criminals who harass women. Police in civilian clothes will be deployed at places where women turn out in large numbers," the statement said.

 

[S_O_C_O_M]

Ending India’s rape culture​

NAOMI WOLF

The crime seems incomprehensible. A 23-year-old physiotherapy student is dead, 12 days after having been raped for more than an hour by six men in a bus travelling on main roads in the Indian capital. Her internal injuries from the iron rod that her attackers used were so severe that doctors had to remove her intestines in their effort to save

Indians, it seems, have had enough. Dozens of large and increasingly angry demonstrations have been held to demand that the government ensure women’s security and stop treating rapists with impunity. While the authorities have sought to quell the protests – cordoning off central New Delhi and subjecting the rest of the city to traffic restrictions – violence has escalated. After a policeman died, live ammunition was fired into the crowds – killing a journalist, Bwizamani Singh, and provoking a rebuke from Reporters without Borders.

It’s not simply the high rate of rape in India that’s driving the protests’ virulence. In a passionate speech, Kavita Krishnan, secretary of the All India Progressive Women’s Association, spoke to the deeper issue behind the protests: the “blame the victim” culture in India around sex crimes. She notes that government and police officials recently insisted that most rapists can’t be prosecuted in India because, as one official put it, they are known to the women attacked. Other officials have publicly suggested that victims themselves are “asking for it” by their use of freedom of movement.

This return to pre-feminist discourse is not confined to India. Italy is having a similar debate about whether women’s clothes and behaviour invite rape. Even in Sweden, activists complain, rapes in which the women know their assailants go unprosecuted because the victims are not seen as “good girls.”

Ms. Krishnan assailed the fact that the conviction rate for rape prosecutions in India has fallen from 46 per cent in 1971 to just 26 per cent today (which, it should be noted, is higher than the conviction rates in the United Kingdom, Sweden and the United States). Indeed, the fact that most rapes are committed by men who are known to the victim should “only make it easier to apprehend the rapist.” Instead, women who go to the police are urged not to file a complaint. “Strange people will begin to assemble at the station out of nowhere to ‘explain’ to you” why that advice is correct.

The problem, Ms. Krishnan points out, starts at the top. In the midst of the protests, Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar sparked further outrage by suggesting that women carry chili powder to deter would-be rapists. And at a press conference, he said women shouldn’t roam around without male escorts. Otherwise, whatever happens to them is their own fault.

Now, with the protests continuing in the aftermath of the victim’s death, officials are emphasizing the need for measures to guarantee the “safety and security” of women. But, as Ms. Krishnan notes, “the word ‘safety’ with regard to women has been used far too much.” Indian women have heard it all their lives. “It means,” she says, “you behave yourself. You get back into the house. You don’t dress in a particular way. Do not live by your freedom. … A whole range of patriarchal laws and institutions tell us what to do in the guise of keeping us ‘safe.’ ”

The six men accused of the bus attack have been arrested and charged with murder, and the government has ordered an inquiry into how rape cases are handled. But the government’s critics remain skeptical of official intentions, noting that only 600 rapes a year are reported in the capital, despite the thousands that are estimated to occur annually.

The deeper truth underlying the protests can be found on blogs, where young Indian men and women bemoan the fact that travel guidebooks routinely warn women about pervasive sexual harassment in India and advise them to move around in groups. Movies, religion, music and women themselves are all blamed for male sexual violence against women, but rapists are not held responsible. A “male-cosseting culture,” as one blogger put it, in turn supports a rape culture.

The connection between rape, male privilege and female sexual vilification was one of the key insights of feminists in the 1970s – an insight they thought had been successfully applied to cultural debate about rape, and to law. In India – as in Italy, Sweden and elsewhere – women and men who support freedom of movement and safety from sex crimes are being forced to refight that battle. One hopes that the protests in India will inspire the West to emulate the protesters’ lack of complacency.

In the developing world, women are in special jeopardy. Their embrace of autonomy and mobility risks putting them in conflict with a law-enforcement establishment and media that still view women through a pre-feminist lens: “Good girls” who stay at home should not be raped, while “bad girls” who stake a claim to public space are fair game.

Ending India

 

[Enemy]

Ending India’s rape culture​

NAOMI WOLF

The crime seems incomprehensible. A 23-year-old physiotherapy student is dead, 12 days after having been raped for more than an hour by six men in a bus travelling on main roads in the Indian capital. Her internal injuries from the iron rod that her attackers used were so severe that doctors had to remove her intestines in their effort to save

Indians, it seems, have had enough. Dozens of large and increasingly angry demonstrations have been held to demand that the government ensure women’s security and stop treating rapists with impunity. While the authorities have sought to quell the protests – cordoning off central New Delhi and subjecting the rest of the city to traffic restrictions – violence has escalated. After a policeman died, live ammunition was fired into the crowds – killing a journalist, Bwizamani Singh, and provoking a rebuke from Reporters without Borders.

It’s not simply the high rate of rape in India that’s driving the protests’ virulence. In a passionate speech, Kavita Krishnan, secretary of the All India Progressive Women’s Association, spoke to the deeper issue behind the protests: the “blame the victim” culture in India around sex crimes. She notes that government and police officials recently insisted that most rapists can’t be prosecuted in India because, as one official put it, they are known to the women attacked. Other officials have publicly suggested that victims themselves are “asking for it” by their use of freedom of movement.


Ending India

This Kavita Krishnan, despite all the rhetoric, is against death sentence for rapists. There is no alternative to death sentence so far as the rape crime rate is concerned. She lectures a lot but fails to understand that tougher punishment deters crimes in society.

 

[Enemy]

Can you imagine a father raping his own physically challenged daughter? Can you imagine being raped by both father and brother for years?

Only death sentence can hopefully stop this menace.

Physically challenged girl raped by father - The Times of India

Maharashtra: Father, brother rape girl, arrested- Maharashtra- IBNLive

 

[jbond197]

Hope the Endian govt does not make excuse that one of the 6 rapists is so called minor and so he cannot be sent to the gallows. I loved one protester asking all other citizens of Endia to boycott the Republic Day as there is nothing Republican left at all.

@WebMaster and mods - Could you please check this guys location? I doubt this person is an Indian. Endian/Endia is the world which Pakistanis love to use not Indians.

 

[ALOK31]

@WebMaster and mods - Could you please check this guys location? I doubt this person is an Indian. Endian/Endia is the world which Pakistanis love to use not Indians.

bro he is not indian .

 

[Gandhi G in da house]

Best Pic from the entire episode

@WebMaster and mods - Could you please check this guys location? I doubt this person is an Indian. Endian/Endia is the world which Pakistanis love to use not Indians.

He could be Indian , you know , there are these kinds in our country as well. Anyway what made you think any mod will reveal his true identity if he isn't Indian ?

Have you ever seen a non-Indian false-flaggers identity being revealed by the mods ? If you catch them you catch them, no one else will.

 

[Enemy]

@WebMaster and mods - Could you please check this guys location? I doubt this person is an Indian. Endian/Endia is the world which Pakistanis love to use not Indians.

I am from India and if you want to meet me anywhere in India, I will. So ask me directly. I will tell you why I used that word in person.

bro he is not indian .

You better meet me.

Best Pic from the entire episode

He could be Indian , you know , there are these kinds in our country as well. Anyway what made you think any mod will reveal his true identity if he isn't Indian ?

Have you ever seen a non-Indian false-flaggers identity being revealed by the mods ? If you catch them you catch them, no one else will.

Where are you in Delhi? I can meet you to show who I am.

 

[Gandhi G in da house]

I am from India and if you want to meet me anywhere in India, I will. So ask me directly. I will tell you why I used that word in person.



You better meet me.



Where are you in India? I can meet you to show who I am.

Not interested. I have better things to do . I anyway suggested that you could be Indian, the kind that we all are aware of.

 

[S_O_C_O_M]

Not interested. I have better things to do . I anyway suggested that you could be Indian, the kind that we all are aware of.

who are you trying to fool? there is no unity in india.

 

[Bond]

who are you trying to fool? there is no unity in india.

so what is the definition of unity according to you? a billion plus people thinking on same line?

 

[Gandhi G in da house]

who are you trying to fool? there is no unity in india.

A better question would be - Why are you trying to fool? There is no need

 

[Enemy]

Chemist held for planning to blow up accused’s locality - Indian Express

A chemist from South Delhi has been arrested for allegedly threatening to blow off the Ravi Dass Camp in RK Puram, which was home to those accused of torturing and raping a 23-year-old woman. Rajesh Powar (37) was caught from Camp after he distributed handouts to the residents ordering them to vacate the camp else he would blow it off. Police later recovered two crude bombs from his possession. During questioning, Powar told police that he intended to blow off the colony to draw government's attention to ensure the most severe punishment for rape accused. Powar lived in Freedom Fighters Colony, Neb Sarai, and worked as a chemist.