-Denver Post BANWASA, India — The teenage girl was overpowered by four men at a railway crossing near this village and bundled into a car. For five days she was kept, imprisoned and naked, in a windowless outhouse on nearby farmland and Raped repeatedly. Despite its brutality, the September incident merited just a few lines in a domestic news-agency story about a string of such crimes in the northern state of Haryana....
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No need to amend law on Rape, effective implementation is all that is needed: SC -Utkarsh Anand
-The Indian Express The Supreme Court on Wednesday noted that there was no need to amend existing laws relating to Rape since legal provisions already provided for completion of the trial within two months. “It is all about the implementation. The only thing you have to do is to implement the existing laws. We have also clarified in several cases. No further amendment is required in the law as it sets the...
More »India: examining the motivation for Rape -Ruchira Gupta
-Open Democracy Were Ram Singh and his cohort simply claiming a notion of masculinity promoted every day by their role models in politics, business and the media? Ruchira Gupta writes of the steady creeping of a Rape culture into the fabric of India, and what needs to be done to counter the idea that women are commodities Let us talk about Ram Singh, the chief rapist accused in the case of Damini,...
More »'Amanat' case: why isn't Delhi's top cop accountable, asks High Court -Tanima Biswas and Ashish Mukherjee
-NDTV The Delhi High Court today asked the capital's police force why its top officer is not being held accountable for the barbarous gang-Rape of a student on a moving bus in Delhi last month. She died nearly two weeks later; five men have been charged with her Rape and murder. The assault on 'Amanat' (NOT her real name) hit India with brute force, triggering massive angry protests and a demand for...
More »The West too has a ‘Rape culture’-Thomas Sajan and Titto Idicula
-The Hindu Business Line Indian society is yet to acknowledge the existence of Rape culture – a set of beliefs that condones aggression on women. Perhaps no other event in India has received more international attention in the recent past than the brutal gang Rape in Delhi and its tragic aftermath. The issue is widely covered in the Western media; the latest addition is the channel interview of the Rape victim’s male...
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