After a 22-year-old woman was sexually assualted in a car in Bangalore and rising number of crimes against women in India, Amnesty International India has come forward and condemned the attack. It has also held the police department responsible for inaction and alleged misconduct.
Authorities must conduct a thorough and impartial investigation into the alleged misconduct of police officials in Bangalore in registering and investigating the sexual assault of a 22-year old woman on 11 July 2014, said Amnesty International India.
The woman told journalists that when she tried to file an official complaint on 13 July, police officials urged her to remove the words “sexual assault” from her complaint. They also did not file a First Information Report (FIR), as required under Indian law. The FIR was only filed the next day after the case was highlighted by the media.
A police officer has been suspended and is being investigated for failing to record information relating to a crime of violence against women. Two have been arrested on suspicion of being involved in the sexual assault, and the police are looking for more suspects.
“There are serious gaps in the implementation of laws related to filing of complaints of sexual violence”, said Gopika Bashi, Women’s Rights Researcher at Amnesty International India.
“The tendency of police officials to downplay the seriousness of these crimes makes it less likely that women will file complaints and contributes to the underreporting of cases of violence against women. Those personnel who fail to do their jobs must be held accountable.”
According to reports, one person was arrested and a search is on for three others for the alleged abduction and sexual assault of a 22-year old woman in a car in Bangalore.
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The victim was sitting with her male friend in a car near her apartment on Thursday midnight (10 July 2014) when four men alighted from another car, forcibly got into their vehicle and drove them away, a police official said.
Both were taken to a nearby railway track where three men forced the woman's friend out of the car, while the fourth allegedly sexually assaulted her in the vehicle, the official involved in the probe said.
He said the gang had also demanded Rs 50,000 from the duo, which they did not have. The man who allegedly sexually assaulted the girl was arrested and a case booked against him under various sections of IPC, including section 377 - (unnatural offences), 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 376 (punishment for rape).
A hunt is on to nab others involved in the incident. The complaint was lodged on Sunday.
Bangalore: Woman sexually assaulted in car, one arrested
Meanwhile, disturbing reports of rising instances of crimes against have cropped up across India including Bangalore, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
A six-year-old child was allegedly gangraped in Bangalore which led to a major outrage. While the said school refused responsibilty, parents have protested strongly against the violence.
Enraged over the incident, hundreds of parents swarmed the school demanding answers from the management whom they accused of being "insensitive" and not forthcoming with information, as they suspected involvement of some staffers.
Demanding action against the staffers over their alleged involvement, the irate parents tried to force their way into the building as police tried to pacify them. Window glasses were broken in the melee.
Bangalore child rape case: Are we doing enough to protect our kids?
Besides this, Teenaged girl undergoing training to be nun was raped in Bangalore by two unidentified persons.
The two persons sprayed "something" on the girl, who had recently come here to a congregation to be trained as a nun, when she opened the door and committed the crime as she became unconscious, a senior police official said. The girl informed her seniors about the incident who later approached the police, DCP (East) N Satish Kumar said.
A case has been registered at the Hennur police station and the investigation is on. The girl is undergoing counselling at St.John's Hospital, he added.
Heinous gangrape of woman in Uttar Pradesh leads to her death:
In a complete rerun of the gruesome Nirbhaya incident that sparked outrage in Delhi, one more incident of gang-rape and murder has surfaced from Akhilesh Yadav's Uttar Pradesh exposing the lack of safety and state government's apathy to women safety.
The 25-year-old woman's body, lying in a pool of blood, was spotted by local people just six kilometres from a village that former US president Bill Clinton had visited on Monday. The police claimed that she was killed last night at the government-run school in the city's Bahadurkheda area, where there had been tight security for Clinton's visit.
This case has been similar to Nirbhaya case where the woman was attacked mercilessly, gangraped and injured with foreign objects that were inserted into private parts to inflict pain.
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