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Ex-BSF Jawan commits suicide, accuses cops of raping daughter for several days

January 28, 2016 by newshourindia Leave a Comment

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In a nerve-racking incident, a former BSF jawan committed suicide in front of Haryana secretariat building in Chandigarh and accused police officials of raping his 15-year-old daughter for several days.

Sandeep Kumar has left a suicide note that gives disturbing details of the sequence of events that led him to this extreme step. Sandeep was taken to PGI hospital in Chandigarh where doctors failed to revive him.

The suicide note states that cops from the Kharkhoda police station in Sonepat district of Haryana used to visit Sandeep’s house in the night and rape his daughter. The police constables threatened Sandeep because of which he did not raise an alarm.

The former BSF jawan has held his wife, Manju, and cops of Kharkhoda police station responsible for his suicide in the letter. Manju is Sandeep’s second wife.

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Will castration of rapists curb sex crimes against women? Excerpts from a Facebook conversation

October 26, 2015 by newshourindia Leave a Comment

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A Facebook post praising Madras High Court’s recommendation to the Centre to consider castration as punishment for child rapists has evoked strong reactions on social networks. Here’s one such conversation on Facebook.

Shikha Pushpan, a journalist who works with a television news agency, praised the Madras High Court’s recommendation in an update on her Facebook profile: “Thumbs up to Madras HC that suggested castration for child rapists! But why just child rapists? Why not all rapists? Castration looks barbaric, but barbaric crimes should definitely attract barbaric model of punishment.”

Shikha’s suggestion earned support of friends in way of Facebook Likes. But there were words of caution too.

Shobha Rana Grover comments: 10 years ago I thought the same: castration for all rapists. However, my thoughts have drastically changed, and not without reason. As I noticed, most of the rapists convicted were from a particular strata of society… When the accused were peasants, labourers, very poor men, justice was instance. But things were different when the accused had power n money. The victim had difficulties even to get the case registered. Post Nirbhaya, case registration at police station has become easier, but not the whole process of justice when the accused is highly influential… Clearly, we have highly flawed system, including judiciary… And then there’s a different dimension to rape in urban India…

Shobha Rana Grover: Recently I came across a report that said 50 per cent of rape cases registered in Delhi were fabricated… How? Rape cases are filed not just when a woman is violated… Rape cases are filed when a couple returns home after having eloped. Girl’s family pressurizes police to register an FIR for rape (to take revenge or whatever on the boy) and one needs only a medical certificate claiming the couple had sexual intercourse… So the guy is a rapist even if the sex was consensual…

Rape cases are filed when a live-in relationship goes awry… There have been many instances where women have filed rape cases against their live-in partners (yes in Delhi and NCR) because they were saying no to marriage… And then these men and women generally reach a mutual agreement, and the case is withdrawn, after their female partners are paid a huge amount of money…So, castration is definitely not the answer.

Dipu Shaw comments: Along with this there are fabricated cases of rape that are filed after mutual sex. There are numerous examples. Like girls in cities especially Delhi see this as a tool to harass boys. I have friends whose girlfriends threaten them and their families that they will file cases against their boyfriends or ex-boyfriends and their families and make them spend the rest of their lives in prison. Some of them even demanded money (few lakhs) to let go the guys. Believe me, such phenomenon is increasing in Delhi. In spite of this, strict laws as castration will act as deterrent and violence of such heinous nature should have punishment of somewhat equal degree. Only that, the law should also have provisions to safeguard innocent guys and their families from unnecessary harassment. In fact, there should be punishment for fabricated cases. I do not know how this is possible when the law is heavily tilted towards women and rightly so. I have heard of a well-known woman activist who takes up cases and helps boys and their families.

Shikha Pushpan adds: Rapists should be convicted irrespective of their social backgrounds. Belonging to a weaker section does not mean he can escape punishment. If he has violated a woman, he should be punished. But at the same time, yes our judicial system is flawed. Many accused from well-to-do families go unpunished. But my point is a stricter punishment like castration will at least instill sum fear in these sex maniacs. A faster trial court cannot be the only solution. Yes, the Uber driver was probably convicted in less than an year because of this but rape cases have not gone down despite such measures. I guess we should focus more on prevention of rape than on what to do with the rapist after the crime takes place. I feel castration is a bold step in this regard.

Shobha Rana Grover: Do you guys remember the recent case in Gurgaon… Two top cops fighting over a rape case… Gurgaon JCP Bharti Arora had accused her senior and Gurgaon Commissioner Navdeep Virk of interfering in the investigation. Virk had accused her of harassing the “rape victim”… I was actually intrigued by the case because I had earlier too read the alleged rapist’s name but in a different report in August. Of course the identity of the “rape victim” was not revealed in any of the reports. I became curious and dug up some old news articles and found that the same “rape victim” had accused Mr X of molestation in 2011… She withdrew the case in 2013… in 2014 she filed a rape case against a Gurgaon guy with whom she shared a live-in relationship and also had a kid. After three years of living together, the Gurgaon guy refused to marry her saying he didn’t want to divorce his wife. So the woman filed a rape case against him, and it’s the same case that became the bone of contention between Bharti and Virk. Now comes in picture the third alleged rapist. This year in January, same woman filed a rape case against a US citizen of Indian origin. Yes, both were living-in. The rapist alleges that the victim is asking Rs 5 crore to withdraw the case. One woman, three known rape cases in three different police stations in Delhi, NCR (may be there are more case she has filed). All the rape accused are men from wealthy families…

Shikha Pushpan: Yeah, a typical case of misusing the law and taking advantage of being a “woman”. Sadly, the female cop was transferred after dis controversy.

Background

Justice N Kirubakaran of the Madras High Court had suggested child rapists should be castrated as existing laws had proved to be “ineffective and incapable” in protecting children. The High Court made this remark while rejecting a plea by a British national accused of sexually abusing a boy.

Three girls, a two-and-half year old toddler and another five-year-old among them, were raped in Delhi earlier this month. Two teenage boys – aged 16 and 17 years – have been arrested in connection with the toddler’s rape.

According to statistics, an average of four children under the age of 12, are raped in the capital every week.

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Ola driver masturbated in taxi, says India woman

July 8, 2015 by Dipu Shaw Leave a Comment

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A woman has alleged that a driver linked to App based taxi service Ola masturbated when she was travelling in the vehicle in Delhi last week. The incident is the latest in a string of controversies involving app based taxi services in India.

The woman, according to a report in Hindustan Times works as a creative strategist for a Mumbai-based digital and social media consultancy firm. She had called Olacabs on July 2 to take her from Saket in south Delhi to Faridabad in Haryana. Olacabs sent a TaxiForSure vehicle driven by Devinder Kumar. TaxiForSure is Olacabs’ partner company which it acquired for $200m in March this year.

The woman described the incident through a Facebook post and Tweets which was picked up by the media. The woman said an update on her Facebook page that she had to request the driver thrice to lower the volume of the music as she was talking over phone. “As I was roughly 25 minutes from my destination, the driver got impatient and started driving brashly. Moreover he seemed extremely restless, anxious, and kept mumbling something to himself. I discontinued my call and asked him to drive properly in the most polite manner possible,” the woman wrote.

“I was about to make another call when I noticed that he was masturbating while driving. He had little control over the wheel as well as his perverseness. He had a smile on his face that will haunt me for nights to come. A #PSYCHOTIC man with a severe chemical imbalance for a driver is nothing but serious,” she added.

A TaxiForSure spokesperson was quoted by Hindustan Times as saying that the driver has been sacked. However, the woman has said to the newspaper that she is dissatisfied with the response of the firm.

There have been several such controversies related to App-based taxi aggregator services in India.

In December last year, the Delhi government banned app based taxi services after a woman executive in the capital alleged that the driver of her Uber cab had raped her after she fell asleep in the backseat of the car. The Uber cab driver is still facing trial in the case and has denied the charges.

Ola had however managed to convince the Delhi High Court to lift the ban following which app-based taxi services had resumed in the capital.

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Video of NGO owner molesting tribal girl goes viral

May 30, 2015 by RAJ KIRAN Leave a Comment

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NGO owner molests tribal girl

A video of an NGO owner molesting a tribal girl has gone viral on social media and mobile messaging service Whatsapp. Ironically, the NGO called Navnirman Trust works for the uplift and education of tribal community in Vyara town of Tapi district in Gujarat.

The accused was arrested by the police late on Thursday night after he was trying to flee to Maharashtra. Earlier, members of Adivasi Kisan Sagathan, a local social organization, submitted a memorandum to the district superintendent of police (DSP) demanding immediate action against the accused.

SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO (Face of the victim has been blurred to conceal her identity)

A report in the Times of India website said that the accused, Ajay, is also a local BJP leader in Vyara.

The victim is an employee in the NGO and the video was purportedly shot by another woman in Rajput’s office.  Police informed that they are recording statement of the victim and a case will be registered as per her account.

 

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Filed Under: Crime Tagged With: Ahmedabad, arrest, crime, disabled, girl, Gujarat, India, molest, news, NGO, police, rape, school, Tapi, tribal girl, video, viral, Vyara, Whatsapp, woman

Schoolgirl gang raped near Delhi

January 8, 2015 by RAJ KIRAN Leave a Comment

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Ghaziabad gang rape accused

A 16-year-old schoolgirl was allegedly abducted near Ghaziabad adjoining Delhi and gang-raped by three men on Wednesday evening. The girl, a class 10 student, was on her way home from tuition classes when the three men forcefully picked her up in a Scorpio car and took her to a house in Noida. There they took turns to rape the minor and then dumped her near her house in Ghaziabad. The girl regularly went for tuition classes around 4-5 pm and it seems her assaulters were following her.

The girl has said in her complaint that one of the rapists was known to her, according to NDTV. Police have registered a case under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POSCO) and arrested the three accused namely Titu, Aman and Navin. The SUV used in the crime has also been confiscated.

A medical examination of the girl is still to establish rape.

Repeated incidents of sexual violence have earned India a lot of negative publicity in national and international media especially after the fatal gang rape of a medical student in a moving bus on December 16, 2012.

On December 5 last year, a 25-year-old executive working for a global company was raped by a Uber cab driver in Delhi. The incident grabbed national and international headlines forcing the government to ban Uber cabs in Delhi.

A 22-year-old Japanese tourist was held captive and gang raped for almost a month by two brothers in Gaya, Bihar. The incident came to light only after the girl managed to escape and lodged a complaint with the police last week.

Last week, a 14-year-old girl was allegedly abducted and gang-raped by two police constables inside a police in Badaun district of Uttar Pradesh.

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Japanese tourist gang-rape: Accused sent to judicial custody

January 4, 2015 by IRFAN AHMAD Leave a Comment

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Three men, two tourist guides among them, have been arrested from Gaya district of Bihar for allegedly raping a 22-year-old Japanese tourist for over a month. The Japanese woman was held captive as a sex slave in a basement near the famous Buddhist shrine of Bodh Gaya, Bihar.

The shocking incident, the latest in a series of high-profile rape incidents, is going to further dent India’s image internationally.

The tourist, who came to India on November 20 last year, was befriended by three locals – one of whom spoke Japanese – in Kolkata, West Bengal. They took her to Digha in East Midnapore and later to Bodhgaya in Bihar. In her complaint, the tourist has alleged that she was molested in Digha where her credit and debit cards were also snatched, Assistant Superintendent of Police Baliram Choudhary informed.

The woman was then taken to Gaya and handed over to two brothers who reportedly work as tour guides. The victim alleged in her complaint that the duo confined her in a basement and raped her repeatedly for nearly a month. She managed to escape to Varanasi in mid December where she met other Japanese tourists who helped her contact the Japanese consulate in Kolkata and later she filed a police complaint.

Sajid Khan, 32, and his 25-year-old brother Javed Khan, both tourist guides, were arrested from Gaya by a joint team of West Bengal and Bihar police. The brothers along with another man allegedly involved in the crime were produced in a court in Kolkata and remanded to judicial custody.

Baliram Choudhary, Assistant Superintendent of Police (Gaya), said, “The Japanese woman has registered a case at Park Street police station (in Kolkata). Earlier, on the pretext of visiting important places she was brought to Bodh Gaya and Sarnath. The incident started from Kolkata where police registered a case and sought help from Gaya Police. Through our help in Gaya, the accused have been arrested.”

Family members of the accused brothers however claimed that they are innocent.  Javed’s wife Rehnuma  said, “  (I was told by cops) Your husband is wanted in a case. I asked, what case it is? It’s no case. What can my husband do if some boys bring someone to stay here and trap and implicate him in the case.”

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Delhi rape: Accused driver sent to three-day police custody

December 8, 2014 by Dipu Shaw Leave a Comment

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Accused cab driver Shiv Kumar Yadav

New Delhi: The driver of the Uber cab, Shiv Kumar Yadav, who allegedly raped a 27-year-old financial executive, has been sent to police custody till December 11. The accused, who was arrested by the police on Sunday near his village in Mathura, was produced before a Delhi court today.

A woman executive was allegedly raped in the cab in Delhi’s Chhattarpur area on Friday night when she was returning from a party in Gurgaon. She had booked a cab via Uber, the US online taxi service that has launched an aggressive international expansion.

According to the woman’s statement to the police, she had dozed off on the back seat of the car and only woke up to the driver groping her. The woman said she found the cab’s doors locked and the vehicle at a secluded spot when she woke up. The driver threatened her when she tried to raise an alarm and then raped her, the woman said in her statement to the police. She has also alleged that the accused driver threatened to sexually assault her with an iron rod and even kill her if she informed anyone about the incident.

The incident brings back bitter memories of December 2012 Nirbhaya rape case that had stirred massive protests in India and forcing the government to enact stricter laws for crime against women.

Uber cab services has been banned in Delhi by the transport department and the government is even mulling banning the service throughout the country after police found serious lapses in its hiring policy. The accused driver was two years in jail from 2011 in another rape case and did not even have a permit to drive in Delhi.

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick said in a statement: “We will do everything, I repeat, everything to help bring this perpetrator to justice and to support the victim and her family in her recovery.”

The police also questioned Uber cab services manager Gagan Bhatia. He said, “I am sitting in a police station, it’s an ongoing investigation and I can’t comment.”

According to the police, a medical test will be conducted on the driver and he will be part of an identification parade as well. The car used in the crime has been recovered but cops are yet to recover the mobile phone from the driver.

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Actor Inder Kumar’s wife claims he did not rape model

April 29, 2014 by RAJ KIRAN Leave a Comment

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MUMBAI: Days after his arrest for allegedly raping a model and physically assaulting her, Bollywood actor Inder Kumar’s wife Pallavi Kumar Sarraf has claimed that her husband is innocent. Pallavi addressed a press conference in Mumbai yesterday claiming that her Inder has been falsely framed. 

“She (the model) claims that she was raped on the 23rd and 24th. If someone is held captive and getting raped, that person won’t move in and out of the apartment, go out and get alcohol. Have a party and order food from outside,” she said.

Actor Inder Kumar was sent to police custody on Saturday for allegedly raping an upcoming model. Pallavai, who is hell bent to prove that Inder is innocent, admitted, “I agree my husband slipped. Any man would, no one is a saint here. There are many in the industry who do this. Some affairs come out some don’t. It’s his bad luck that someone wants to destroy him.”

Pallavi is confident that the truth will come out by the 30th of this month and they will be applying for bail right after. The model is admitted at Cooper hospital currently.

In the light of his fling with the model, Pallavi had left the house and had started living with her mother who resides in the same building.

The actor, who is considered to be close friend of Bollywood superstar Salman Khan, has worked in Bollywood movies like ‘Wanted,’ ‘Maa Tujhhe Salaam,’ ‘Baaghi,’ ‘Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi,’ ‘Tum Ko Naa Bhool Payenge’ and ‘Masoom’, among others.

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Woman raped by policeman at gunpoint in Jharkhand

April 17, 2014 by IRFAN AHMAD Leave a Comment

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Rape victims suffer more after ordeal

CHATRA (JHARKHAND): At a time when political leaders are making tall promises about improving the safety of women, crime against the fairer sex is on the rise. The latest incident of rape has been reported from Jharkhand’s Chatra district where an ASI rank police official has been accused of raping a married woman at gunpoint. The woman had gone to the police station to file an FIR against domestic violence.

The married woman has alleged that cop Ramanand Prasad of Chatra town’s police station called her a day after she lodged a complaint against her in-laws and raped her at gun point in a room.

The police official allegedly also threatened the woman of dire consequences if she disclosed the incident to anyone. But after coming back to her house, the woman narrated the incident to a neighbour, who later made a complaint before Superintendent of Police (SP) against the ASI.

Chatra SP Prashant Karan informed media that he has received a complaint against the ASI and has ordered a probe into the matter. “Action will be taken on the basis on the probe report,” the Superintendent of Police informed.

Incidents of violence against women has been on the rise in India and more incidents are being reported more after the fatal gang-rape of a medical student in a moving bus in Delhi. The incident had triggered widespread protests and demands for stringent anti-rape laws.

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Woman cop files complaint of assault against BJP MLA in M.P.

March 28, 2014 by newshourindia Leave a Comment

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JABALPUR: A woman cop in Jabalpur has lodged a police case against BJP legislator Anchal Sonkar and four of his aides for allegedly assaulting her during the time of service.

The ruling party MLA from Jabalpur East, on the other hand, alleged that sub-inspector Nirupa Pandey used caste-related abusive language against him. Sonkar is also planning to file a counter police complaint against the cop.

The case pertains to arrest of Sonkar’s friendly neighbourhood bootlegger by Pandey. Annoyed by the arrest, a seething Sonkar, accompanied by supporters, first tried to intimidate Pandey, a SI on probation, and two of her subordinates, into submission and failing to do that finally ended up slapping the woman officer by the roadside.

The woman cop was ordered to free the accused, Durga Prasad Sonkar, a known bootlegger of the locality selling liquor to local men by the wayside. When she refused the party workers allegedly turned abusive and a slanging match between the police party and Sonkar and his men ensued.

A case under section 186 and 353 of Indian Penal Code was later registered against the MLA for criminal assault and intimidation of public servant during discharge of his/her duty.

Sonkar, a prominent BJP leader of the area, already has a chequered police record with 11 criminal cases pending against him.

The incident, meanwhile, has assumed a political colour after Congress joined the issue with Pandey

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