Apart from Delhi, which has earned the dubious distinction of being the national capital of rape, other metropolitan cities are equally unsafe.
A teenaged girl is raped by two men and a minor in a moving car in Faridabad, on the outskirts of New Delhi, on
Tuesday.
A teenaged domestic help is raped by a person running a placement agency. She is also forced to have unnatural sex with her employer in Delhi’s Chittaranjan Park .
A 17-year-old girl is raped in the operation theatre of a Kolkata hospital in July. The girl dies.
A Delhi court acquits five persons of the charges of committing gang rape of an Uzbek woman by terming her testimony “doubtful”.
The list is endless and the crime gruesome. And it is not restricted to the interiors of the country.
The rape of the teenaged domestic help in Delhi has yet again raised serious concerns over the safety of women and children in the national capital as around 1,495 women and minors have been raped in the past 30 months.
The recent rape case came to light on Tuesday after the 17-year-old domestic help lodged a complaint with the police. The girl from West Bengal was raped by one Gafur Mandal (21), who runs a placement agency in Tughlaqabad area.
She was also forced into unnatural sex by her employer, 58-year-old Purshottam Sahdev, who works in a public sector unit.
The crime took place over several days. Police on Wednesday arrested two people, including a senior executive in BHEL, who were named by the teenager in her complaint.
According to the Delhi government estimates, there are over 7,00,000 women and minor girls working in the homes as domestic help for a meager sum of money.
“These women and children are promised huge sum of money but later they are forced to work for little pay and are often raped and beaten up by their employers and their agents,” said Piyush Sharma, joint commissioner Labour department.
Apart from Delhi, which has earned the dubious distinction of being the national capital of rape, other metropolitan cities are equally unsafe.
Take for example, the rape statistics in West Bengal and its capital, Kolkata. As per records collected from the Kolkata Police and the West Bengal Police, during the first six months of this year, 977 rape cases were reported in the state. In Kolkata, seven cases have been reported so far.
In Kerala, the rape statistics are equally alarming. Here, the culprits include the men in power. In the Suryanelli sex scandal, Rajya Sabha member PJ Kurianzzzz was among the 36 accused who had allegedly forced a 15-year-old girl to have sex with them in 1996.
All the accused, barring one, was let off by the Kerala High Court. Last Monday, the Madras HC set aside an order of a principal sessions judge, sentencing a film actor to seven years rigorous imprisonment on charges of rape.
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