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Delhi protests against Sajjan acquittal

Friday, 03 May 2013 15:17
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Anger and outrage over Congress leader Sajjan Kumar's acquittal in an 1984 anti-Sikh riots case poured into Delhi streets for fourth day on Friday, with one of the riot victims starting an indefinite fast while scores of people blocked a busy road triggering huge traffic snarl.

Indian actor Farhan Akhtar's campaign for women's rights

Wednesday, 01 May 2013 09:01
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Bollywood actor-director Farhan Akhtar is promoting a campaign called MARD - Men Against Rape and Discrimination - to get Indian men to respect women at a time when the country is outraged over cases of brutal violence against women.

Indian rape victim, five, 'abandoned in hospital by her parents' as thousands clash with police over handling of sexual assault cases in the country

Monday, 22 April 2013 00:05
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A five-year-old rape victim has been abandoned in a leading Indian hospital by her parents, it was revealed today amid fierce protests over the handling of sexual assault cases in the country.
 
disclosure came from opposition leader, Sushma Swaraj, after she visited the New Delhi hospital to see another five-year-old girl, who was left for dead having been kidnapped, raped and tortured.
 
It coincides with angry protests across the capital, where demonstrators clashed with police as anger grows over how authorities in the country handle such cases.
 
The victim who Ms Swaraj had been at the country's largest state-run hospital to see, was moved
there on Thursday from a local facility in a critical condition.
 
Medical superintendent D.K. Sharma, at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, said today she was improving, after responding well to treatment and her condition being stabilised.
 
She had gone missing on April 15 and was found two days later by neighbours, who heard her crying in a locked room in the same New Delhi building where she lives with her family.
 
The girl had suffered a brutal attack and was found alone. A 24-year-old man was arrested yesterday in the eastern state of Bihar, around 620 miles from the capital, in connection with the incident and is being detained and questioned by officers after being flown to New Delhi.
 
It comes four months after the fatal gang rape of a young woman on a New Delhi bus, which sparked outrage across India over the mistreatment of women.
 
For the second consecutive day, protesters gathered outside the police headquarters in the capital, angry over allegations that police ignored complaints from parents of the latest victim.
 
Officers are said to have been reluctant to investigate her disappearance and that they offered the family 2,000 rupees (£25) to stay silent.
 
Around 100 Bharatiya Janata Party supporters also demonstrated today outside the home of the chief of the ruling Congress Party, Sonia Gandhi.
 
They were demanding the government ensure the safety and security of women and girls in the city. 
The protesters also called for the Delhi police chief to be removed from office and for police officials accused of failing to act on the parents' complaint to be dismissed.
 
Police said they detained more than 50 protesters when they tried to break down barricades on the road leading to Ms Gandhi's house, but released them a few hours later.
 
Officers also placed restrictions on the gathering of more than four people on the main avenue in the heart of New Delhi after university students planned to hold a demonstration.
 
The Telegraph reported that Bharatiya Janata Party leader, Ms Swaraj, left the hospital after seeing the young victim, and said: 'I saw another five year old girl child in the next room. 
 
'She is also a rape victim. She was found abandoned in the AIIMS Campus. She says her father is a Rickshaw puller. She misses her mother but does not want to go home. 
 
'Doctors told me that only few days back, they discharged a male child who was a victim of sodomy. I think we should hang these criminals and save our children.' 
 
An 11-year-old girl is also being treated at the hospital, having suffered serious internal injuries when she was gang-raped last August.
 
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called for changes in attitudes toward women in India, where there has been a fierce debate since December's gang rape about the routine mistreatment of females. 
 
'The gruesome assault on the little girl a few days back reminds us once again of the need to work collectively to root out this sort of depravity from our society,' he said at a meeting with civil servants. 
 
The fatal beating and gang rape of a young woman aboard a moving New Delhi bus sparked outrage and spurred the government to pass tough laws for crimes against women.
 
These included the death penalty for repeat offenders or for rape attacks that lead to the victim's death.
 
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5 year girl abducted and raped brutally in Delhi - fighting for her life in hospital

Friday, 19 April 2013 15:54
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A five-year-old girl, who was raped allegedly by a neighbour after holding her captive for four days, is battling for life due to infection contracted from foreign objects found inside her body, doctors said on Friday.

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13 injured in Bangalore Bomb Blast near BJP office - India

Wednesday, 17 April 2013 07:40
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Bangalore: An explosion near the Karnataka BJP office in a crowded residential area here today left thirteen persons injured, two of them seriously.

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