Sexual Violence related Crimes from India: Comprehensive running thread

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All incidents of rape,gangrape,sexual harassment,molestation,sexual violence from India will from now go into this thread

Tagging Mod @Dubious after discussing this issue over with him

In the future, hopefully this thread will be stickied so that this important conversation is not swept under the rug

 

[Dubious]

hopefully this thread will be stickied

I have made it sticky...Now if you see any other threads popping up on the topic mention me and I will move them here!

 

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I have made it sticky...Now if you see any other threads popping up on the topic mention me and I will move them here!

Thanks a Lot...Happy New Year in advance

 

[Dubious]

Thanks a Lot...Happy New Year in advance

Happy New Year.

In members club - the topics are "non serious" and thus I moved the thread from there

 

[Juggernaut_Flat_Plane_V8]

Let this thread be also a discussion thread rather than a dump it and forget it thread..
My thesis is that increasing economic freedom of women is triggering a backlash from certain sections of the society

 

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Indians are right to protest against rape, but the fight must start at home
(CNN) — A typical scene unfolds in India: angry crowds flood the streets in a mass outcry after yet another woman or girl falls victim to sexual violence.

The gang-rape and murder of a woman in the southern city of Hyderabad earlier this month gave rise to protests across the country. The chanting crowds reflected uproar seen in 2012, after the notorious gang-rape and murder of a student in the capital, New Delhi.
Protests have become a cornerstone of India's response to such attacks, often demanding stricter laws or even the death penalty for rapists. Some protesters also pledged kinship with the latest victim, holding up banners that described her as the nation's "daughter."
But cultural values held behind the closed doors of family homes are a part of the problem that is being protested against: privilege for boys and submissiveness for girls.

"Girls are trained not to exist," says Deepa Narayan, an author and independent adviser on international poverty, gender and development. "You (girls) don't need any power. And if you want power there's something wrong with you and you're being bad."


'Patriarchy pretends men are kings'


India's preference for boys is prevalent even before birth. Sex-selective abortionin the country has distorted the natural sex ratio, in favor of males, according to the World Health Organization.
Some experts say the practice is becoming less common but for girls, it can lead to poorer allocation of household resources and medical care, neglect, and even infanticide.
"In some families, during a girl's birth, the welcome is more muted. But a boy's birth is welcomed to a drum; buying expensive sweets and telling everyone that a boy is born, a boy is born," says Narayan, who has more than 25 years of experience working at the World Bank, the United Nations and NGOs.
But this is not a result of "evil" parenting, she tells CNN. "This is all done under the rubric of love. It's not conscious. In India, they call it adjusting (to the culture)."


However, this type of conditioning can have detrimental effects. "Boys are not taught dialogue. Their needs are just met, they're never told 'no.' They're told not to cry. Where does all that anger and rage go? Women go into depression and men lash out."

Narayan argues that the mental health of Indian women "is a totally neglected area."

In fact, 36.6% of global suicide deaths among women occur in India. Furthermore, Indian women who took their lives were more likely to be married, to be from more developed states, and aged below 35.
But a male dominated society is bad for men too. "Patriarchy lifts them, pretends that they are kings. But no human being can lift up to such high expectations," says Narayan. "That's why it's so difficult for men to apologize because they are expected to be always right, godlike figures and providers.

"Nobody is happy, but we're not breaking this apart. Things would change much faster if we actively engaged men in conversation."

India: Women, class, and discrimination 03:17



'Rapists put their mothers on pedestals'


A woman who interviewed 61 convicted rapists detained in India's largest prison agrees.
Dr Madhumita Pandey, originally from India and now a Criminology lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK, was only 22 years old when she carried out her doctoral research at Tihar Jail in Delhi. The men convicted of the infamous 2012 gang rape are held in the same complex.

These conversations are "missing" from discussions on sexual violence against women, Pandey tells CNN.

"A lot of them actually found the conversation (with me) very cathartic," she says. "How can you reflect on your actions if you're not even going to speak about it?"


The attackers, interviewed between 2013 and 2017, seemed like any other men, Pandey says. They also shared views that reflected Indian society's perception of the gender division of labor, with women "in charge of raising the family and taking care of household chores" and men as "outdoor agents."

This especially came to light in their relationships with their mothers and sisters.

"Of all the men that I spoke to, there were only a handful that didn't share a good relationship with their mothers. Everyone else put the mother on this pedestal."

Pandey says this is due to the absence of fathers for some of the men while they were growing up, and the idea that they were the preferred child.



'India needs sex education'


Many of the culprits had older sisters. However, the men felt they were the favorite child because their mothers were elated to have finally conceived a boy, leading to unearned privileges such as being fed first. "Mothers were playing a very crucial role in setting gender role standards," says Pandey.

The rapists didn't express remorse and described themselves as "inmates" instead of offenders, often blaming their victims, Pandey says. She puts this down to a lack of understanding of their actions. Pandey advocates for restorative justice, delivered to convicted attackers during their lengthy jail terms, so they may emerge as reformed individuals.

Although the men she interviewed were generally uneducated and from low socio-economic backgrounds, she stresses that this status does not correlate with violent behavior against women and that people from privileged backgrounds may have the wealth and means to evade justice.

Pandey argues that prevention can happen in schools. "We need educational institutions to introduce some form of comprehensive sexuality education. It's crucial that there's more awareness regarding sexual violence. We need to be telling people about active consent, about toxic masculinity and the younger we get to people, the better it is."


The women and girls of Delhi are fighting back 02:03



'And then another rape happens'


Zero-tolerance towards everyday misogynism is also key, Pandey says. "There's so much outrage when there is a rape case. Where is the outrage when day-to-day experiences of women are also highlighting abuse in some shape or form?" These behaviors, she says, lead to more extreme crimes.

The crimes also happen in the home. Shockingly, 93.1% of rape offenders were neighbors, relatives or prospective marital partners of the victim, according to National Crime Records Bureau data from 2017. And marital rape is not criminalized in the country.

Research into domestic violence in 2016 revealed that 31% of married women have experienced physical, sexual, or emotional violence by their spouses. To make matters worse, almost 45% of Indian women believe that a husband is justified in beating his wife, according to World Bank data.
But mass outrage is expressed in India for attacks outside of the home, not within it.

"People don't make the link between someone else's terrible, extreme behavior and their own everyday behavior in the home, the offices and the streets. I think that's the missing link," says Narayan.

The death penalty that is often demanded in rallies also doesn't kill the problem.

"The men will get hanged, people will feel that the government has done their duty, and you're going to go back to sleep. And then another rape happens," says Pandey.



'Crack the shame around rape'


Collective outrage can spur change, Narayan says.

"Protests are an opportunity to start talking about sexual violence. Before the (2012 Delhi gang rape), even the word rape, you couldn't really use it. It's beginning to crack the shame around rape," she says.

"It's really a people's movement ... getting out to the streets without guns, without anything, embarking in protest, is a very courageous act."

The demands are getting through to some leaders. Most recently, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal announced that his government would make schoolboys sign pledges to not commit crimes against girls or women. Mothers and sisters are also encouraged to engage in discussions with boys and warn them against wrongdoing. Narayan highlights this as an important step.


The need to engage boys is being implemented by some organizations in the country, such as the Equal Community Foundation, based in the western city of Pune. "Women's empowerment initiatives will continue to yield lower results due to the backlash that they face from the men and boys in their families who continue to be socialized into patriarchal norms," ECF's executive director Christina Furtado tells CNN.

The NGO overcame the reluctance to fund male-focused initiatives by relaying the long-term benefits of working with boys.

In the meantime, however, India still ranks 125 out of 162 countries on the UN's Gender Inequality Index.

If India can build 110 million toilets to clean up the country and raise its global business ranking, then "why can't India move 100 ranks in two years from being the most dangerous country in the world (for women) to a safe country in the world for women?" asks Narayan. "I think we can change."
People flooding the streets to express a chorus of disapproval for abuse against women is a powerful display that can be difficult to ignore. But once the streets clear and everyone retreats behind closed doors, the message must be firmly driven home.

 

[Juggernaut_Flat_Plane_V8]

good post Mod @Dubious Can you please merge it with

Sexual Violence related Crimes from India: Comprehensive running thread

 

[Andhadhun]

What a wonderful sticky thread.

I will do my best to post here.

Here is my first contribution. Hope no one bans me for posting here on the topic.

1.

Muhammad Mumtaz and his friends kidnap a minor girl, gang rape her and then sell her for prostitution

http://sudarshannews.in/headlines/mumtaj-gangrape-with-minor-girl-then-sold-her-in-red-light-area/

good post Mod @Dubious Can you please merge it with

Sexual Violence related Crimes from India: Comprehensive running thread

Does this news make the cut to this thread ?

60 yr old man Saleem Zaveri rape 25 yr old girl for 15 days.

Zaveri had lured the woman, who was standing at a bus stop while looking for shelter, into accompanying him by promising her job as a maid.


https://www.newindianexpress.com/na...-mumbai-2083252.amp?__twitter_impression=true

 

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https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsa...es-and-protests-get-wrong-about-rape-in-india

What Headlines And Protests Get Wrong About Rape In India
December 29, 20195:00 AM ET
SUSHMITA PATHAK

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A woman holds a poster in support of Swaiti Maliwal, chairperson of Delhi Commission for Women. Maliwal is demanding justice for victims and survivors of rape. In India in 2017, the most recent year for which data was available, there were nearly 33,000 cases of rape reported, according to national crime statistics. But most rape cases in India, as in many parts of the world, go unreported.

Sonu Mehta/ Hindustan Times via Getty Images
On Nov. 27, a veterinarian in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad called her family to say she'd gotten a flat tire on the side of the road. A truck driver was helping her, and she'd be home soon, she told her sister.

A few days later, police found her charred remains in a wooded area. Authorities believe four men deflated her tire, posed as good Samaritans to trick her, then gang-raped and murdered her. Police said they have DNA evidence connecting them to the crime.

The story dominated the news cycle and sparked nationwide protests. For many citizens, the outrage felt like déjà vu. Seven years ago, a gang rape on a moving bus in New Delhi sparked massive demonstrations and panic over sexual violence in the country.

ASIA
Protests Erupt In India After Alleged Rape And Killing Of A Female Veterinarian
The attention paid to such high-profile cases involving urban, educated women attacked by strangers overlooks a crucial point about rape in India: Many victims are poor, marginalized women from lower castes, often living in rural areas, who know their rapists, according to Kalpana Sharma. She is the author of The Silence and The Storm: Narratives of Violence against Women in India and has been a journalist for nearly five decades, specializing in gender issues.

Sharma says there is great outrage at the violence that takes place in public spaces in urban areas because they are familiar to many people.

Days after the rape and murder in Hyderabad, police in the city issued safety tips for women. They advised women to "wait in crowded areas" and "talk loud when confronted" among other things. Social media users criticized the police for putting the onus on women to protect themselves against potential rapists.


GOATS AND SODA
In Interviews With 122 Rapists, Student Pursues Not-So-Simple Question: Why?
When a rape makes news headlines in India, it's almost always followed by urgent demands for retributive justice. Days after the Hyderabad murder, a politician in India's upper house of parliament said the accused should be lynched in public. (The four suspects were later killed by police who claim they acted in self-defense. A judicial inquiry is underway.)

Only about a third of rape cases reported to the police result in a conviction. At the end of 2017, the most recent year for which data is available, Indian courts had a backlog of more than 100,000 rape cases.

"There should be pressure on the government but not pressure to bypass laws or to get stricter punishment but to actually get the criminal justice system to work," Sharma says.

Sharma says the criminal justice system must work not just for one or two high-profile cases but also for the thousands of cases of poor women who can't even get their complaints registered with police.

And then there are the women who are raped and do not report it to the police. According to India's National Family Health Survey, 80% of women who have experienced sexual violence never tell anyone about it.

Nonprofit groups are working to encourage women who've faced domestic violence, including marital rape, to come forward. Social workers affiliated with Mumbai-based nonprofit SNEHA (Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action) go door-to-door in Dharavi, one of Mumbai's largest slums, handing out leaflets with information on how to contact SNEHA for help, which includes counseling and access to legal and medical services.

Nayreen Daruwalla is a social worker and director of SNEHA's prevention of violence against women and children program. She says many in this neighborhood, she says, were child brides. In such cases, the idea of consent and the definition of rape itself gets blurred.

"There is no question of consent. 'She is my wife! She is my property. So I have the right to just use her.' This is the thinking," Daruwalla says.

Until that thinking changes, sexual violence will persist across India, she says.

The government is trying to address this mindset.

For example, all Indian colleges must now offer training to prevent sexual harassment. The program is designed to reach young people in many income levels, including students from poor socioeconomic backgrounds.

Altamash Khan is one of the instructors. He's a gender studies expert who works with Mumbai-based nonprofit Men Against Violence and Abuse.

"It's a spectrum of violence," Khan says. "You begin with catcalling. You see domestic violence. You see films where the woman eventually falls in love [with her harasser]."

Patriarchal values also cause men to act with impunity because they believe they have a certain privilege, he adds.

Khan believes that if we can chip away at age-old patriarchal values, it could reduce sexual violence.

 

[Andhadhun]

More "shocking" news. (not really)

Shahrukh Khan rapes a married woman, video the act and send the video to her mother to blackmail for money.


https://m.patrika.com/amp-news/sika...police-5573924/#click=https://t.co/IdhSRR1c1n

 

[Andhadhun]

waz, is this some new kinda PDF competition that mr andhhadun is engaging in?

The Moderator in his wisdom has make this a stick thread to highlight sexual violence against women in India. Are you doubting his intelligence ?

Only someone who supports rape will speak against posting news regarding sexual violence in India. Don't you agree ?

For eg.

Minor Allegedly Raped By Madrasa Manager In Uttar Pradesh's Amroha

A 12-year-old girl complained that she was raped by a madrasa manager.

https://www.ndtv.com/cities/minor-a...&akamai-rum=off#click=https://t.co/EjcRMa7Rfn

 

[Rusty]

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019...dies-hospital-set-ablaze-191207041031010.html

India rape victim dies in hospital after being set ablaze
The woman was on her way to attend a court hearing when she was doused with kerosene and set on fire on Thursday.

7 Dec 2019

The burns casualty ward of a hospital in New Delhi where the 23-year-old rape victim was being treated [Adnan Abidi/Reuters]
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A 23-year-old rape victim died in a hospital in India's capital two days after she was set on fire by a gang of men, including her alleged rapist, the doctor treating her said.

The woman was on her way to board a train in Unnao district of northern Uttar Pradesh state to attend a court hearing when she was doused with kerosene and set on fire on Thursday, according to the police.

The attack, the second significant case of violence against women in the past two weeks, has sparked public outrage in India.

More:

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• Rape survivor in India's Unnao 'set on fire' by alleged attackers

The woman died on Friday after suffering a cardiac arrest, Dr Shalabh Kumar, the head of burns and plastic department at New Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital told Reuters News Agency.

"She was having 95 percent burns," he said, adding that the woman's windpipe was burned and "toxic and hot fumes" had filled her lungs.

The woman had filed a complaint with Unnao police in March, alleging that she had been raped at gunpoint on December 12, 2018, police documents showed.

Having been subsequently jailed, the alleged rapist was released last week after securing bail, police officer SK Bhagat said in Lucknow.

Uttar Pradesh is India's most populous state and has become notorious for its poor record regarding crimes against women, with more than 4,200 cases of rape reported there in 2017 - the highest in the country.

Priya Hongorani: Indian gang-rape suspects will get fair trial (3:58)
This case is one of the latest high-profile sexual abuses reported in recent days.

On Friday, Indian police shot and killed four men who were suspected of raping and killing a 27-year-old veterinarian near Hyderabad city, an action applauded by her family and many citizens outraged over sexual violence against women.

But many were also concerned that police had overreached in shooting the alleged suspects without any trial.

More than 33,000 women were raped - an average of some 90 rapes reported each day - in India in 2017, according to the figures released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).

But the real figure is believed to be far higher as many women in India do not report cases to police due to fear or shame.

The NCRB data also shows that more than 90 percent of cases of crimes against women were pending in courts across the country.

Earlier this year, the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh was widely criticised by the opposition parties who accused it of protecting a party legislator charged with raping a 19-year-old woman in the same Unnao town.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/03/asia/india-hyderabad-rape-intl-hnk/index.html



New Delhi (CNN)They found her charred body near a highway underpass, early Wednesday morning, on the outskirts of one of India's biggest cities.

The victim, an unnamed 27-year-old veterinarian, was about to hop on her scooter Tuesday evening, when she noticed she had a flat tire.
Two men are alleged to have approached her to offer help, but they were not good Samaritans. According to police, the two men were members of a gang of four who had conspired to sexually assault her. One of the men had let the air out of the tire deliberately, police said.
Three of the gang are alleged to have overpowered the victim and dragged her to an enclosed area a few feet away. They covered her mouth with their hands to ensure her silence.
The four men are then alleged to have taken turns raping the victim, according to R. Venkatesh, a police inspector in the southern city of Hyderabad.
Later they strangled her, before driving her lifeless body nearly 12 miles (20 kilometers) away and dumping her body under a highway overpass. In an effort to conceal their crime, they poured fuel on her body and set it alight.
The four men have been arrested for her rape and murder, according to police.

Protesters took to the streets of New Delhi on December 1, 2019 to demand justice for the Hyderabad rape and murder victim.
As news spread of the monstrous crime, protests erupted in Hyderabad and later expanded to cities including Bengaluru and India's capital, New Delhi.
Some people in the angry crowds demanded the death penalty for the suspects and called for justice after yet another rape and murder of a woman in India.
According to India's National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), around 100 sexual assaults are reported to police in India every day. In 2017, more than 32,000 rapes were reported across the country -- but experts say that the real number is likely much higher, owing to the shame attached to sexual assault and the social barriers faced by victims.
An endemic problem
The outrage in Hyderabad comes just two weeks before India marks the anniversary of a disturbingly similar crime. The gang rape of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student in New Delhi on December 16, 2012, brought the issue of women's safety in India to the world's attention.
In September 2013, four men were sentenced to death in that case. The decision was upheld in 2017 and the four men remain on death row.
Another perpetrator was underage at the time and received a lesser sentence, while a sixth attacker died in prison.
The case led to protests across India and intense media coverage around the world, shining a light on India's pervasive problem of sexual violence against women.
But nearly seven years on, campaigners say that not much has changed for women in the country. The Hyderabad murder was just one of many vicious and violent crimes committed against women and children in the country during the past seven days alone.
In perhaps the most shocking incident, a 6-year-old girl was raped and strangled to death with her own belt on Saturday in a village near Jaipur, in the northern state of Rajasthan, more than 870 miles (1,400 kilometers) north of Hyderabad.
A drunk 38-year-old man is alleged to have lured the girl out of school by offering her candy, and killed her because she knew him and feared she could identify him to authorities, according to Vipin Sharma, a senior official with Rajasthan police.
The suspect was arrested by police on suspicion of rape and murder.
Around 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) south of Hyderabad, a 40-year old woman was attacked with a gardening tool in the city of Perumbavoor in Kerala, early Wednesday morning. She was raped, and later died of her injuries, said K. Bijumon, a senior official with Perumbavoor police.
Perumbavoor police have arrested a 28-year-old man in connection with the crime and he is currently in custody.

Supporters of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) hold a vigil for the Hyderabad rape and murder victim in Siliguri, West Bengal on November 30, 2019.
A day earlier, in the eastern state of Jharkhand, a 25-year-old woman was gang raped by a group of 12 men, said Rishav Jha, a senior police officer with Ranchi police.
The victim was sitting with a male friend when the gang surrounded them. They assaulted her friend and then dragged the woman to a nearby enclosure, where they took turns raping her.
All 12 suspects have been arrested and are currently in police custody.
Rape culture
The deep-rooted problem of sexual assault in India has in the past been seen by authorities as more of a social and cultural issue rather than a concern for law enforcement, according to women's rights activists.
"It is in the mind of society, and men and boys to brutalize women. They get a power kick. If law and order and enforcement is strong, then the law starts acting as a deterrent. The politicians make obnoxious statements. They help in creating the rape culture," said Ranjana Kumari, director of the Delhi-based Centre for Social Research.


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"The law is not acting as a deterrent," added Kumari.
Lawmakers in India's Parliament have condemned the Hyderabad incident, demanding stricter laws and swifter punishment for rapists. Some even called for rapists to be publicly lynched or castrated.
In the wake of the 2012 Delhi gang rape case, lawmakers passed a series of amendments to the existing rape laws. Additional legislation was passed last year following the heavily publicized rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl. The amended law lengthened prison terms and introduced the death penalty in cases where the victim is younger than 12 years of age.
On Tuesday, a woman's rights activist went on hunger strike in Delhi to demand the death penalty for all rapists, saying she would not eat until a new law was passed.
"How can we sit silently when there is no one to listen to her screams? Whoever is silent today, their conscience will have to answer to this for the rest of their lives," Swati Maliwal, chairwoman of the Delhi Commission for Women, wrote on Twitter on Monday.
India is yet to execute any convicted rapists following the introduction of the amendment.
In 2017, a total 117,451 rape cases were pending in the country, while 28,750 cases were brought to trial, according to NCRB figures.
Women's rights activist Kumari said putting more suspected rapists on the court stand was of greater concern than carrying out capital punishment.
If India were to start hanging people for rape, authorities would need to set up gallows the length and breadth of the vast nation of more than 1.3 billion people, Kumari said.
"But you are not punishing anybody. How many convictions have been reached? The truth of the matter is that nobody gets punished," she said.

 

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Social activists and supporters protest against the rape and murder of a 27-year-old veterinary doctor in Hyderabad, during a demonstration in New Delhi.

(CNN)A typical scene unfolds in India: angry crowds flood the streets in a mass outcry after yet another woman or girl falls victim to sexual violence.

The gang-rape and murder of a woman in the southern city of Hyderabad earlier this month gave rise to protests across the country. The chanting crowds reflected uproar seen in 2012, after the notorious gang-rape and murder of a student in the capital, New Delhi.

Protests have become a cornerstone of India's response to such attacks, often demanding stricter laws or even the death penalty for rapists. Some protesters also pledged kinship with the latest victim, holding up banners that described her as the nation's "daughter."

But cultural values held behind the closed doors of family homes are a part of the problem that is being protested against: privilege for boys and submissiveness for girls.

"Girls are trained not to exist," says Deepa Narayan, an author and independent adviser on international poverty, gender and development. "You (girls) don't need any power. And if you want power there's something wrong with you and you're being bad."

'Patriarchy pretends men are kings'
India's preference for boys is prevalent even before birth. Sex-selective abortion in the country has distorted the natural sex ratio, in favor of males, according to the World Health Organization.

Some experts say the practice is becoming less common but for girls, it can lead to poorer allocation of household resources and medical care, neglect, and even infanticide.

"In some families, during a girl's birth, the welcome is more muted. But a boy's birth is welcomed to a drum; buying expensive sweets and telling everyone that a boy is born, a boy is born," says Narayan, who has more than 25 years of experience working at the World Bank, the United Nations and NGOs.

But this is not a result of "evil" parenting, she tells CNN. "This is all done under the rubric of love. It's not conscious. In India, they call it adjusting (to the culture)."

However, this type of conditioning can have detrimental effects. "Boys are not taught dialogue. Their needs are just met, they're never told 'no.' They're told not to cry. Where does all that anger and rage go? Women go into depression and men lash out."

Narayan argues that the mental health of Indian women "is a totally neglected area."

In fact, 36.6% of global suicide deaths among women occur in India. Furthermore, Indian women who took their lives were more likely to be married, to be from more developed states, and aged below 35.

But a male dominated society is bad for men too. "Patriarchy lifts them, pretends that they are kings. But no human being can lift up to such high expectations," says Narayan. "That's why it's so difficult for men to apologize because they are expected to be always right, godlike figures and providers.

"Nobody is happy, but we're not breaking this apart. Things would change much faster if we actively engaged men in conversation."

'Rapists put their mothers on pedestals'
A woman who interviewed 61 convicted rapists detained in India's largest prison agrees.
Dr Madhumita Pandey, originally from India and now a Criminology lecturer at Sheffield

Hallam University in the UK, was only 22 years old when she carried out her doctoral research at Tihar Jail in Delhi. The men convicted of the infamous 2012 gang rape are held in the same complex.

These conversations are "missing" from discussions on sexual violence against women, Pandey tells CNN.

"A lot of them actually found the conversation (with me) very cathartic," she says. "How can you reflect on your actions if you're not even going to speak about it?"

The attackers, interviewed between 2013 and 2017, seemed like any other men, Pandey says. They also shared views that reflected Indian society's perception of the gender division of labor, with women "in charge of raising the family and taking care of household chores" and men as "outdoor agents."

This especially came to light in their relationships with their mothers and sisters.

"Of all the men that I spoke to, there were only a handful that didn't share a good relationship with their mothers. Everyone else put the mother on this pedestal."

Pandey says this is due to the absence of fathers for some of the men while they were growing up, and the idea that they were the preferred child.

'India needs sex education'
Many of the culprits had older sisters. However, the men felt they were the favorite child because their mothers were elated to have finally conceived a boy, leading to unearned privileges such as being fed first. "Mothers were playing a very crucial role in setting gender role standards," says Pandey.

The rapists didn't express remorse and described themselves as "inmates" instead of offenders, often blaming their victims, Pandey says. She puts this down to a lack of understanding of their actions. Pandey advocates for restorative justice, delivered to convicted attackers during their lengthy jail terms, so they may emerge as reformed individuals.

Although the men she interviewed were generally uneducated and from low socio-economic backgrounds, she stresses that this status does not correlate with violent behavior against women and that people from privileged backgrounds may have the wealth and means to evade justice.

Pandey argues that prevention can happen in schools. "We need educational institutions to introduce some form of comprehensive sexuality education. It's crucial that there's more awareness regarding sexual violence. We need to be telling people about active consent, about toxic masculinity and the younger we get to people, the better it is."

'And then another rape happens'
Zero-tolerance towards everyday misogynism is also key, Pandey says. "There's so much outrage when there is a rape case. Where is the outrage when day-to-day experiences of women are also highlighting abuse in some shape or form?" These behaviors, she says, lead to more extreme crimes.

The crimes also happen in the home. Shockingly, 93.1% of rape offenders were neighbors, relatives or prospective marital partners of the victim, according to National Crime Records Bureau data from 2017. And marital rape is not criminalized in the country.

Research into domestic violence in 2016 revealed that 31% of married women have experienced physical, sexual, or emotional violence by their spouses. To make matters worse, almost 45% of Indian women believe that a husband is justified in beating his wife, according to World Bank data.

But mass outrage is expressed in India for attacks outside of the home, not within it.

"People don't make the link between someone else's terrible, extreme behavior and their own everyday behavior in the home, the offices and the streets. I think that's the missing link," says Narayan.

The death penalty that is often demanded in rallies also doesn't kill the problem.
"The men will get hanged, people will feel that the government has done their duty, and you're going to go back to sleep. And then another rape happens," says Pandey.

'Crack the shame around rape'

Collective outrage can spur change, Narayan says.

"Protests are an opportunity to start talking about sexual violence. Before the (2012 Delhi gang rape), even the word rape, you couldn't really use it. It's beginning to crack the shame around rape," she says.

"It's really a people's movement ... getting out to the streets without guns, without anything, embarking in protest, is a very courageous act."

The demands are getting through to some leaders. Most recently, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal announced that his government would make schoolboys sign pledges to not commit crimes against girls or women. Mothers and sisters are also encouraged to engage in discussions with boys and warn them against wrongdoing. Narayan highlights this as an important step.

The need to engage boys is being implemented by some organizations in the country, such as the Equal Community Foundation, based in the western city of Pune. "Women's empowerment initiatives will continue to yield lower results due to the backlash that they face from the men and boys in their families who continue to be socialized into patriarchal norms," ECF's executive director Christina Furtado tells CNN.

The NGO overcame the reluctance to fund male-focused initiatives by relaying the long-term benefits of working with boys.

In the meantime, however, India still ranks 125 out of 162 countries on the UN's Gender

Inequality Index.

If India can build 110 million toilets to clean up the country and raise its global business ranking, then "why can't India move 100 ranks in two years from being the most dangerous country in the world (for women) to a safe country in the world for women?" asks Narayan. "I think we can change."

People flooding the streets to express a chorus of disapproval for abuse against women is a powerful display that can be difficult to ignore. But once the streets clear and everyone retreats behind closed doors, the message must be firmly driven home.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/27/asia/india-rape-education-intl-hnk/index.html

India is the RAPE Capital of the world.

 

[M.Bison]

I have made it sticky...Now if you see any other threads popping up on the topic mention me and I will move them here!

Aren't the incidents minimized by moving them all here? Who is going to read all these posts.. Is it not better to have them individual so that you can actually read each incident?

Pakistani people are so gullible almost bordering stupid..

The Moderator in his wisdom has make this a stick thread to highlight sexual violence against women in India. Are you doubting his intelligence ?

Only someone who supports rape will speak against posting news regarding sexual violence in India. Don't you agree ?

For eg.

Minor Allegedly Raped By Madrasa Manager In Uttar Pradesh's Amroha

A 12-year-old girl complained that she was raped by a madrasa manager.

https://www.ndtv.com/cities/minor-a...&akamai-rum=off#click=https://t.co/EjcRMa7Rfn

@Dubious
You don't see why they did this? you don't see this Hindus's ploy? Look at all his posts and you will see a pattern.

Never give Indians power on this forum. They are not our friend. He consolidated these threads so they could change the narrative.. Get out of the aloo ghost mindset please.

 

[Maarkhoor]

Mumbai: Dad rapes girl by blackmailing her over sex video with a boy
MUMBAI: A 40-year-old man, employed with a private company, has been booked by city police for raping his 17-year-old daughter by blackmailing her with a video of her having sex with her 17-year-old boyfriend. The father absconded after the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act Court rejected his plea for anticipatory bail.
The boyfriend, too, has been booked for rape but his plea for anticipatory bail was allowed by the court after his advocate, Vaibhav Jagtap, submitted that the crux of the allegations were against the survivor’s father and that his name was added only later in the FIR.


The matter came to light after the girl's mother found several of her nude videos in her phone’s gallery in November. The mother found the father had been taking the videos on the girl’s phone and had forgotten to delete them. The girl subsequently revealed her ordeal to her mother. The mother then lodged a complaint against the father.

In her statement to the police, the survivor said she was in a relationship with a collegemate. She said on July 15, 2019, the boy came home to seek her help for a college project. The girl said her parents were home. She said after they were done with the project, the boy ordered food for everyone. Since she was unwell, she decided to eat later. The girl said when she sat down to eat, she realised the food was over. The girl said she was angry and went to her room. Her friend came in to pacify her. She said after she had calmed down, the boy began to get intimate with her. She said despite her resistance, the boy sexually assaulted her.




The girl said she did not tell anyone about the incident. Later that day, though, when her mother was not around, her father showed her a video of her with the boy. She said her father began to blackmail her and the following morning he raped her. The girl said her father threatened to show the video of her and the boy to her mother, make it viral and divorce her mother if she told anyone of his crime.




The mother said she first saw the videos of her daughter in her phone in November. The girl said her mother had separated from her father by then and was living with her mother.




The woman said a few days later, her daughter called her on the phone and finally told her that her father was sexually harassing her. Subsequently, the mother went to the police and filed a complaint.




(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...ideo-with-a-boy/articleshowprint/73102455.cms