Tourist harrassment. Whats wrong with India ?

[EagleEyes]

I dont know about British. But i see what you mean. We usually make fun of the British accent.

 

[asaad-ul-islam]

3 Indian Army officers on UN mission accused of rape
Tue, Mar 18 09:58 AM

For the first time, three Indian Army officers deputed to the United Nations peacekeeping force have been accused of rape.

A Lieutenant Colonel and two Majors of the Indian Army, presently with the North Kivu brigade of the Mission of the UN in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC), were detained last Wednesday by South African police after a woman resident of Plettenberg Bay in Pretoria charged them with rape.

They were away from MONUC headquarters in Kinshasa on a holiday to Pretoria.

India has the largest contingent in MONUC with more than 4,300 personnel.

The mission was established in February 2000 to stem the instability that continues through ethnic wars despite elections in 2006. Currently, Indian security personnel are part of peacekeeping missions in Sudan, Ethiopia and Lebanon.

The three officers were picked up from a bed-and-breakfast hotel in Mossel Bay on March 12 and kept in police custody for more than a day.

Sources said that the incident first came to light during a meeting with a South African delegation on defence cooperation in New Delhi last week.

A senior Army officer was asked to ascertain the facts and suggest measures to sort out the embarrassment.

Later, an officer from the Indian Embassy in Johannesburg was rushed to Plettenberg and the three were released from the police station. Sources told The Indian Express that Defence Minister A K Antony has asked for a report on the incident on how the officers managed to go to the "unsecured place" while with the UN.

3 Indian Army officers on UN mission accused of rape - Yahoo! India News

 

[ejaz007]

Autopsy reveals Keeling’s organs missing

PANAJI: A fresh row has erupted over the death of a British teenager in India’s Goa state after her organs were found to be missing following a new autopsy in Britain, a lawyer said Monday.

The autopsy, the third since 15-year-old Scarlett Keeling was raped and murdered in the Indian resort state of Goa in February, revealed that her stomach, uterus and both kidneys had been removed, a lawyer representing the teenager’s mother said. Indian investigators - who have been accused by the girl’s mother of covering up murder - had conducted two autopsies on Keeling after she was found dead on Goa’s popular Anjuna beach.

Keeling’s mother Fiona MacKeown had insisted on a third autopsy in Britain and was “shocked and disturbed” about the new findings, her lawyer Vikram Varma told AFP in the state capital Panaji. A doctor who conducted the first autopsy - on the basis of which police initially dismissed the death as a drowning - has been suspended. Last week, Goa’s government sacked a police official for lapses in the probe.

A second examination was conducted on MacKeown’s demand and the police launched a murder investigation. But forensic experts in Goa dismissed suspicions of foul play over the missing organs, saying that Keeling’s body parts were needed for the medical examinations. “We sealed everything and gave it to the police,” said a forensic expert who was part of the team that conducted the second autopsy. MacKeown’s lawyer, however, said he would take up the matter with Goa’s authorities. afp

Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan

This is the latest on the British teenager's case.

 

[Goodperson]

Scarlett's organs kept for tests, says Goa govt

PANAJI: The vital organs of murdered British teen Scarlett Keeling had been removed by forensic experts for tests, the Goa government clarified on Tuesday after reports that the organs were missing during a third autopsy in UK.

"The forensic experts have not deviated from the standard procedure. So there is nothing fishy about the missing organs," said chief secretary J P Singh.

Scarlett's body was found lying on the Anjuna beach on February 18. During the investigations, two autopsies were conducted in Goa. But a fresh autopsy in UK showed that Scarlett's uterus, pancreas, both kidneys and spleen were missing. Her mother Fiona Mackeown and her Indian lawyer suggested it could be foul play.

Singh said during the first autopsy the full stomach was removed along with a part of the intestines for chemical analysis.

Pieces of the lung, liver, brain, spleen and half of each kidney too were preserved separately, he added.

He said during the second autopsy, the panel of doctors took the remaining half of the kidney and spleen.

"As there was no access to the stomach, they removed the uterus because of allegations of sexual assault," Singh said. Ruling out foul play by authorities, Singh said the case has been handed over to CBI.

"This has been done to ensure that the mother gets justice," he said.

Scarlett's organs kept for tests, says Goa govt-India-The Times of India

 

[Always Neutral]

Guys don't bother about lovely scarletts organs. The procedure is the same in UK in any murder case whose killer has not been convicted. Having said that its a shame that the Indian Govt. did not realise that the local police in most parts of India is hand in glove with the local hoodlums.

They should have handed over the case to their Scotland Yard equivalent immediately. Its done a huge ammount of damage to the india's image overseas.

Hats off to her mom to stand up and prove the Goa Police wrong.

Regards

 

[Flintlock]

Life sentence in India rape case

A court in the Indian state of Rajasthan has sentenced a guest house owner to life imprisonment for raping a British journalist.

The accused, Parbat Singh, was also fined 25,000 rupees ($625; £312).

The trial, which concluded within four months of the charges being brought against Singh, is one of the fastest in India's usually slow legal system.

This is the third such conviction handed out by special fast-track courts in Rajasthan in the past three years.

The 40-year-old female journalist was raped in the guest house in the town of Udaipur last December.

Police arrested Singh in January after the journalist informed the British High Commission in the capital, Delhi, of the incident.

In 2006, a court in Rajasthan sentenced the son of a top police official to seven years in prison for raping a German student.

The trial was completed in 10 working days.

In 2005, a similar court handed out a life sentence to two men in Rajasthan for abducting and raping a German tourist.

Both trials were unusually swift for India, where courts often take years to hand out verdicts.

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Life sentence in India rape case

 

[A.Rahman]

Both trials were unusually swift for India, where courts often take years to hand out verdicts.

When the life of "Gori" is at stake its usually swift.

 

[Flintlock]

When the life of "Gori" is at stake its usually swift.

You're wrong. The trials weren't fast because of the race of the victim.

It was a question of India's reputation as a tourist destination and the international image of India.

I don't know why people always tend to come up with explanations on the basis of race, for every incident that involves people of different races.

 

[A.Rahman]

You're wrong. The trials weren't fast because of the race of the victim.

It was a question of India's reputation as a tourist destination and the international image of India.

I don't know why people always tend to come up with explanations on the basis of race, for every incident that involves people of different races.

Thats what I meant indirectly;the life of foreigner was at stake.

Have we seen the trial of Gujarat? or babri masjid?

 

[Flintlock]

Thats what I meant indirectly;the life of foreigner was at stake.

Have we seen the trial of Gujarat? or babri masjid?

Yeah, Gujarat is stalled because of politics, same with all the other big cases.
But these things don't go away, they will come back to haunt them sometime or the other.

There weren't any political bigwigs interfering here, so the verdict was handed out quickly.

 

[Myth_buster_1]

a british women is raped in india and the rapist is sentenced to death, while indian army enjoys daily gang rape on it poor kasmiris citizens! where is justice for those women?

i also blame these tourists as they have to keep the culture difference in mind.. they cant just walk around in bikinis front of hungry lust crowd of men!

 

[Flintlock]

a british women is raped in india and the rapist is sentenced to death, while indian army enjoys daily gang rape on it poor kasmiris citizens! where is justice for those women?

i also blame these tourists as they have to keep the culture difference in mind.. they cant just walk around in bikinis front of hungry lust crowd of men!

Just to clarify, none of the women were in bikinis when they were raped...

 

[Myth_buster_1]

Just to clarify, none of the women were in bikinis when they were raped...

she was targeted earlier when she was walking around in bikini!! btw its goa? beach?

 

[Flintlock]

she was targeted earlier when she was walking around in bikini!! btw its goa? beach?

Oh forget it...please go and google the topic before debating further.

 

[Spring Onion]

The main problem is the heavy influx of foreign tourists. Government's 'Incredible India' campaign has been hugely successful but they didn't bother investing credibly in developing Infrastructure & security network at popular tourist destinations. In my opinion there is a need for a special police dept to handle tourist complaints & providing them with credible information. Also, government has to properly network the hotel chains & upgrade the infrastructure. Hotels should take the responsibility on themselves to provide registered guides to batch of tourists. Such incidents have happened in east asian countries after they emerged on tourism map in early 90s. But with time they handled the problem & It is India's turn now to do the same.

Development of infrastructure and security arrangements can not guarantee the safety of tourists in terms of their harassment sexual abuse and raps.

And in India it was also seen that foreign women tourists are raped or sexually abused by guards or even security persons.

Its simple the horny mentality can not be changed by just improving the infrastructure plus its such a pitty that Indian society is being dragged to an extreme end by those who are trying to even surpass the west in a bid to prove that India is modern What a pity they are adding to the frustration of an already frustrated lot.

A moderate way is always the best way to do anything but we can see the Indians are trying to catch up the west in short span although if you go back and study the changes took place in US or any western country, these took a long time ,a steady transformation not an abrupt change as the Indians want.