Indian Girl, Aged 14, Dies After Being Raped for the Second Time by Man Who Forced Her to Drink Acid to Prevent Speaking
A 14-year-old girl has died in India after allegedly being raped for a second time by the same man as his trial approached.
The teenager was first attacked by the suspect in December last year, her parents told police, but he was released on bail and abducted her from her family home in May shortly before a court hearing.
She returned home in Delhi almost a fortnight later with severe injuries, her parents said, saying her attacker threatened to kill her family to pressurise her to retract her initial accusation.
“We looked for her for 12 days. When my child came back home, she had bruises all over. Her mouth, chest and limbs had been blackened,” the victim’s mother told NDTV.
“They told her if she revealed anything in court, they would kill her father and mother.”
The girl, from the “untouchable” Dalit caste, said she had been repeatedly raped, beaten, deprived of food and forced to drink acid mixed with fruit juice during her imprisonment.
She fell severely ill in June and was admitted to hospital, dying in intensive care on Sunday of apparent internal injuries.
The alleged rapist has been re-arrested on suspicion of murder.
Swati Maliwal, chairperson of the Delhi Commission for Women, said she visited the victim on 23 July and was told her chance of survival was low because of “corrosives destroying her organs”.
“She suffered so much pain and her perpetrators were roaming free,” she added, saying the girl’s parents were “inconsolable”.
“How many Nirbhayas does Delhi want? We all simply wait for next Nirbhaya to die.”
Ms Maliwal was referring to the 2012 Delhi bus rape, when a 23-year-old physiotherapy student initially known as “Nirbhaya” because of anonymity laws died of her horrific injuries, sparking a national drive for women’s safety and justice for rape victims.
A special task force on women’s safety in Delhi that was set up in the wake of the atrocity has since been disbanded.
The Delhi Commission for Women has issued a notice to the Delhi police questioning the handling of the latest case, which follows outcry over the failure to protect other Dalit women who have been repeatedly raped and murdered.
A student of the same caste was allegedly gang raped on 13 Julywhile on her way home from college in Rohtak, Haryana, by a group of men including two suspects who assaulted her three years earlier.
Man rapes Dalit girl for second time and kills her, after being released on bail. The girl, from the “untouchable” Dalit caste, said she had been repeatedly raped, beaten, deprived of food and forced to drink acid mixed with fruit juice during her imprisonment. They told her if she revealed anything in court, they would kill her father and mother. She suffered so much pain and her perpetrators were roaming free. (A student of the same caste was allegedly gang raped on 13 Julywhile on her way home from college in Rohtak, Haryana, by a group of men including two suspects who assaulted her three years earlier.) The Independent UK
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The National Campaign Against Torture (NCAT) in its “India: Annual Report on Torture 2019” released on the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture stated that a total of 1,731 persons died in custody during 2019 i.e. deaths of about five persons daily. These included 1,606 deaths in judicial custody and 125 deaths in police custody.
Torture is perpetrated to extract confession or bribes and torture methods used in 2019 included hammering iron nails in the body (Bihar), applying roller on legs and burning (Jammu & Kashmir), ‘falanga’ wherein the soles of the feet are beaten (Kerala), stretching legs apart in opposite side (Kerala), hitting in private parts (Haryana), electric shock (Punjab and Uttar Pradesh), pouring petrol in private parts (Uttar Pradesh), applying chilly power in private parts (Kerala) beating while being hand-cuffed (Kerala), pricking needle into body (3-Year-old minor in Tamil Nadu), branding with hot iron rod (3-Year-old minor in Tamil Nadu), beating after stripping (Haryana and Assam), urinating in mouth (Uttar Pradesh), inserting hard blunt object into anus (Bihar), beating after hanging upside down with hands and legs tied (Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh), forcing to perform oral sex (Gujarat), pressing finger nails with pliers (Assam), beating with iron rods after victim is suspended between two tables with both hands and legs tied (Madhya Pradesh), forced to do Murga pose or stress position (Haryana), and kicking in belly of pregnant woman (Assam).
Indian police officers in the town of Nagina chased a group of Muslim teenagers into an empty house. They grabbed them and took them to a makeshift jail. And then, the boys and community leaders said, the officers tortured them.
Four of the boys, who ranged in age from 13 to 17, said that police officers used wooden canes to beat them and threatened to kill them.
Indian Police officers over the course of 30 hours terrorized them.
According to two of the boys, the officers laughed during beatings, saying, “You will die in this prison.”
More accounts are emerging of abuse meted out by police officers.
Almost all the violence has been directed toward Muslim residents. More people — at least 19 — have been killed!
Witnesses said that police officers opened fire on demonstrators with live ammunition, broke into houses and stole money, and threatened to rape women.
Police officers were encouraged by their superiors to kill protesters.
The Indian police have become a lynch mob! Inidan police officers having been given the green light by senior officials to use harsh measures against Muslims.
A 20-year-old Dalit man was allegedly burnt alive over his relationship with a woman from another caste, the killing causing his mother to die of shock.
The victim was beaten up, kept hostage in a house and set ablaze.
Locals rushed to the spot on hearing his cries and took him to a local hospital. He was referred to a Lucknow hospital but succumbed to injuries on the way.
India : Hyderabad : Andhra Pradesh Telangana2018-09-20
A father attacked his 20-year-old daughter and her newlywed husband in the heart of the city on Wednesday, chopping off her left forearm and slashing her jaw. The incident comes days after a Dalit youth was mercilessly murdered in front his pregnant wife in Nalgonda district.
Police said the father was upset over the inter-caste marriage — the woman an OBC (Other Backward Class), her husband, B Sandeep (22), a Dalit. Sandeep and Madhavi Chary, in a relationship for five years, secretly got married on September 12, despite stiff opposition from her father.
Madhavi was left with a 12-inch gash on her neck and jawline and her left forearm barely hung by the skin. She was in a 10-hour surgery at the time of going to print. Sandeep, in another hospital, received 10 stitches to close the deep wound at the angle of his mouth; the attending doctors said he was in deep shock.
