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As the five men accused of gang-raping a 23-year-old student on a bus in New Delhi on Dec. 16 face murder charges, a crowd in Assam, India, took justice into their own hands Thursday by stripping and publicly beating a senior official accused of rape.

The New York Times reports that a crowd captured Bikram Singh Brahma, a member of the Congress Party in Assam, after he allegedly raped a woman while he was staying at the family's house on Wednesday night.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/0 ... 03099.html

Villagers reportedly ran into the house and captured the man after hearing the woman's screams, the Associated Press writes. A local TV station subsequently captured how a group of women started stripping Brahma of his shirt and began to slap him. Men joined the fray and kicked the politician, ultimately restraining Brahma for several hours until police arrived on the scene around noon Thursday.

Although the crowd initially refused to hand Brahma over to the authorities until he made a public confession, police eventually took him into custody, according to the Times of India.

"We are taking this issue very seriously," senior police officer G.P. Singh said, the AP reports.

According to Singh, officials registered a case against Brahma under Indian Penal Code 376 and are currently investigating the circumstances of the situation, such as why Brahma was staying in the family's house at the time of the alleged rape.

Pending the investigation, Brahma has been suspended from the party, Congress spokesman Haren Das told news service IANS.

Tarun Gogoi, the Chief Minister of Assam, condemned the alleged attack saying anyone found guilty of committing the crime "would not be spared, whether he is Congressman or not."

"It is the most condemnable act. Anyone who commits rape or attempts it should be given stringent punishment," Gogoi told Indian news agency PTI.

Following the recent death of the 23-year-old gang-rape victim, sexual abuse and atrocities against women in India have been thrust into the international spotlight. If a newly filed petition with India's Supreme Court passes, Indian politicians with pending criminal charges may be barred from contesting elections on both national and local levels, according to the Wall Street Journal.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/0 ... 03099.html

aftab Most Senior Member

When the law is selectively applied and only comes to the aid of the rich/powerful than don't be surprised when you hear people taking the law into there own hands. Having said that i am not happy that 'Shining India’ is getting bad press at the moment, because i feel Pakistan is not exactly the beacon of light when it comes to the protection of women.
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semirza User avatar
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Aftab Bhai
In India or Pakistan this social evil prevails in our societies from bottom up-till the top brass. All rape convicts should be castrated with no consideration as a first or second offense when their animal behavior has already printed terror for ever in the minds of their victims; a memory they cannot and never ever be able to shake off their conscious or sub-conscious minds.

aftab Most Senior Member

Exactly Mirza Sahib, you will see the change in behaviour when a few people are made examples, castration is the only way for such barbarity.

While the New Delhi gang rape case has resulted in outrage that has spilled into the streets across the border, the plight of women who have faced rape and sexual assault in Pakistan has been largely confined to formulaic articles in the press, slow-moving cases in the courts, and frequent dropped charges due to bribes, threats of further violence and family pressure on the victim to avoid further ‘shame’.

In 2012, The Express Tribune covered over 150 reports on cases of rape and their follow-ups across the country, but the actual number of incidents is likely much higher as the stigma of rape, treatment meted out by police officials and low prosecution rates makes this crime largely unreported.

While statistics are few and far between, according to a November report by the Awaz Foundation Centre for Development, as many as 2,713 cases of violence against women have been reported in 15 districts of southern Punjab since January 2012, giving some measure of the scale of the issue.

As such, the reports below can only be considered a small snapshot of the violence being wrought on the women of Pakistan.
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http://tribune.com.pk/story/486966/paki ... -timeline/

The link above gives details of all the cases that are mentioned in the Express Tribune.
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