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Surat gang rape case: All 3 accused get life term
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Posted: Friday , Feb 19, 2010 at 1156 hrs
Surat:

A local court here on Friday awarded life sentence to the three
accused in the infamous July 2009 Surat gang rape case that had rocked
the city.

A Principal and Sessions Judge held the three accused in the infamous
gang rape case and sentenced life imprisonment to the accused Sahid
Syeed, Tariq Syeed and Abu Bakr Ismail.

The trio raped 17-year old class 12th schoolgirl around 5 a.m. on July
12, 2009 while she was on her way to the tuition. She was picked up by
the accused in their car posing as police officials, who then raped
her in the vehicle shocking the conscience of the people of the city.

The accused had also recorded the rape on their mobile phones. The
three were however, arrested within hours of the incident.

The chargesheet in the case was filed on July 24, 2009. The hearing
was scheduled on day-to-day basis.

The accused Shahid and Tariq are sons of police officials.

The city was on boil after the incident and circulation of MMS. There
were protests in the city after the gang rape of a 17-year-old minor
girl.

The court has completed the hearing time in record time and announced
the verdict within a year of incident setting an example for others.

13 Comments |

Surat Rape Case
By: Frank Steve | Friday , 19 Feb '10 15:38:35 PM

Undoubtedly, this is a good example of speedy justice. But on the
other hand it is very selective. Can the judiciary show the same
courage and speed in convicting the rapists involved in rapes during
the Gujarat riots, or should the rapists change their names to Shahid
and Tariq.

Secular
By: moon | Friday , 19 Feb '10 15:01:56 PM

I wonder how long before the "secular" people in the country take out
candlelight marches to set the accused free on the grounds that they
are "discriminated against, humiliated, backward, and only wanted to
avenge the 2002 riots"

fast judgement
By: raj | Friday , 19 Feb '10 14:22:06 PM

JUDGEMENT DELAYED JUDGEMENT DENIED! DEAR JUDGES PL DONT WASTE UR AND
OUR TIME ON KASAB CASE. TELL UR VERDICT IMMEDIATELY. DONT SAY IT IS
VERY SENSITIVE CASE! A ABSOLUTE NONSENSE. FURTHER GOVT SPENDING
UNNECESARILY ON HIM TO GIVE BIRYANI AND MEETING ALL HIS PERSONAL
REQUIREMENTS. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE FINISH IT FAST BEFORE HE BECOME OLD
AND DIE NATURALLY

Surat gang rape case: All 3 accused get life term
By: sathviok | Friday , 19 Feb '10 14:11:07 PM Repl

WOW THE COURT TOOK ONE YEAR TO GIVE A JUDGEMENT FOR A CASE.HOW MUCH
THE GIRL HAS SUFFERED FOR ONE YEAR.OUR LAW BOOK SHOULD BE WRITTEN ONCE
AGAIN.THE PERSONS WHO GOT A LIFE TERM AND WHO FATHERED THEM SHOULD BE
REMOVED OF THEIR POSTINGS ASLO and made to beg on the roadsssss

Life term?
By: Indi | Friday , 19 Feb '10 14:05:12 PM

These animals deserve more than life term.

SHAME FOR THE YOUNGSTERS
By: TRUE INDIAN | Friday , 19 Feb '10 13:50:43 PM

THIS IS HOW EFFICIENT TE BJP GOVT RUNS UNDER CM NARENDRA MODI INSPITE
OF BEING THE SONS OF A POLICE OFFICER THEY WERE TERMED TO SENTENCE IN
JUST ONE YEAR. IF IT WOULD BE CONGRESS GOVT THAN THE GOVT WOULD HAD
RUN CASE FOR YEARS AND THERE WUOLD BE NO RESULTS.

You are right
By: Indi | Friday , 19 Feb '10 14:07:13 PM

You are absolutely right man. Look at the case of afzal and kasab. It
is still being dragged and will be dragged and will be dragged as long
as cong rules. Bravo Modi. Shame on cong who can sell country for few
votes as they have been doing when ever they are in power.

I m with u
By: Mayur | Friday , 19 Feb '10 14:34:26 PM

Yes. Modi is great as he has always been. Does anyone know that
someone did bomb blast at the same court?

Hope, other long pending cases of rapes on tribal girls are also
expedited.
By: Babubhai Vaghela Ahmedabad | Friday , 19 Feb '10 13:36:34 PM

Two infamous rape cases of Gujarat. Patan case took more than a year
with twists and turns. Surat case has taken about seven months. Hope,
other long pending cases of rapes on tribal girls are also expedited.

Gujarat Govt done a great job
By: S roy | Friday , 19 Feb '10 13:24:28 PM Repl

Gujarat Govt done a great job, others should learn from Guj Gove.
"Hang" would have been better for them.

Sons of Policemen should be hanged
By: bharadwaj | Friday , 19 Feb '10 13:21:48 PM

What a joke! They destroyed the life of a child. They should have been
destroyed. After 10 good years inside jail they will be back to do
same acts. let us hang them!

Why not a capital punishment
By: harsha | Friday , 19 Feb '10 13:19:51 PM

why does the tax payer take the burden of these morons... the court
should have set an example by awarding Capital Punishment. Judiciary
is sometimes the last hope and that is slowly waning... probably the
sections under which they have charged cannot be awarded capital
punishment... Then is the Hon Law minister listening

Fast Judgement
By: Nishit Desai | Friday , 19 Feb '10 13:17:24 PM

The judgement is historic and fast. However, it is time that all rape
offenders be compulsorily executed. We must have death penalty for
rape and terror related offences.

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/surat-gang-rape-case-all-3-accused-get-life-term/581898/

India's 'Most Sensational Crimes of the Year 2009' (Flashback)

Posted On: 22-Dec-2009 15:49:44 By: Anjali Singh

New Delhi: The alleged rape and murder of two women in Shopian in
Kashmir, the kidnap and murder of a call centre employee in Delhi, the
gang rape of a management student in Noida, the mysterious death of a
Muthoot house scion in Kerala, and actor Shiney Ahuja's arrest for
allegedly raping his maid were some of the sensational crimes that
hogged newspaper headlines in 2009.

Following is a list of some of the major crimes of the year:

The deaths on May 30 of Neelofar Jan, 22, and her sister-in-law Asiya
Jan, 17, in Shopian town of Jammu and Kashmir state continues to hog
the limelight. The deaths led to a massive furore in Kashmir Valley
with allegations that the women were first raped and then murdered,
with some pointing fingers at the security forces.

The CBI in its Dec 14 report to the state high court ruled out rape
and murder and said the women died due to accidental drowning in a
stream.

The kidnap and murder of call centre employee, Jigisha Ghosh, 28,
outside her south Delhi house on March 17 this year rocked the
national capital. Jigisha was speaking on the phone and walking
towards her apartment after being dropped by a cab hired by her
office, Hewitt Associates, around 4.30 a.m. when she was pulled into a
car by some men. Police say the killers made her give them her bank
debit card secret identification number and withdrew Rs.20,000 from an
ATM. They killed her and dumped the body near Bhatkal Lake in
Faridabad and then went on a shopping spree with her credit cards.
Four men were arrested.

The Aug 21 murder of Muthoot house scion Paul M. George, 32, shocked
Kerala and grabbed national headlines. George, a bachelor, was
travelling in a car at night with two men who have several criminal
cases against them.

His body was found in Alapuzha. Questions were raised about what
George was doing with two known bad elements. Police have arrested 19
people on charges of involvement in the murder while his father, M.G.
George Muthoot, has asked for a CBI probe.

The gangrape of a 24-year-old MBA student in the vicinity of the
capital Jan 6 was among the most sensational crimes. The girl, a
resident of south Delhi, was with her male friend inside a car parked
near the Noida Expressway when a group of 10 youths, back from playing
a cricket match, dragged her out of the car. They took turns to rape
her.

According to police, the rape was in celebration of their cricket
victory. The youths were arrested.

Another case that hogged the limelight was the alleged staged shooting
by police of 24-year-old MBA student Ranbir Singh in Dehradun July 3.
He was allegedly shot at point-blank range 30 times by Dehradun
police. The CBI said police personnel first beat up Singh in the
lockup and then drove him to the Ladpur jungles near Dehradun where
they fired 30 shots at him from close range.

Goa was very much in the news in 2009. A 25-year-old Russian woman was
allegedly raped by a Goa politician.

The woman, who was employed as a Russian liaison representative in a
five-star resort in Goa was having dinner with a woman friend on Dec 1
night when she was offered a lift by John Fernandes. She alleged
Fernandes raped her in the car. The politician will have to surrender
before the Goa trial court as the Supreme Court on Friday told him
that he deserved no relief in the form of pre-arrest bail.

The coastal state was in the news in October too when 10 bodies,
including that of seven young women, were found in a span of three
days. The killings were the handiwork of two groups - a scrap dealers
gang and two local goons, who along with women accomplices, would rob
and kill their victims.

In another shocking crime, Orissa cadre Indian Administrative Service
(IAS) officer Jagadananda Panda killed four members of his family 'one
by one', firing at them from his service revolver before turning the
gun on himself in his home in Deogaon in Bargrah district. The
incident took place in July. Panda was a 1983-batch IAS officer and
had worked in several important positions in the Orissa bureaucracy
before he left for Delhi on a central deputation in 2006.

The crime scene did not spare Bollywood. Actor Shiney Ahuja was
arrested in June for allegedly raping his domestic help. Shiney has
reportedly told the court it was not rape but consensual sex. He was
in the lock-up for nearly four months and denied bail on at least two
occasions. He had come to Delhi to his parent's home. He is at present
out on bail and back in Mumbai.

In Haryana, a young woman, Alka, consumed poison along with her
husband outside the office of the Rohtak range inspector general of
police, alleging she was raped by five men and the police were not
taking any action. Alka died in a hospital in Rohtak while her
husband, Sunil, survived. She allegedly took the extreme step after
she failed to meet the IGP.

http://www.mynews.in/India's_'Most_Sensational_Crimes_of_the_Year_2009'_(Flashback)_N33415.html

MP: Woman gang-raped at railway station

Posted On: 26-Oct-2009 18:25:53 Source: Rohit Sharma

Bhopal : A 23-year-old woman was allegedly gangraped by five people,
including one in khaki uniform, at Katni railway station in Madhya
Pradesh, police said Monday.In a complaint lodged with the Government
Railway Police (GRP) in Betul, the 23-year-old woman said she was
assaulted late Saturday when she was waiting for her husband who had
gone out for buying some food.

"A man in uniform came to me and asked why I was sitting at the
platform alone. When I told him that my husband has gone out to bring
some eatables, he started asking foolish questions. Realising that he
was unnecessarily harassing me, I moved on to the other platform but
he followed me there also and asked me to accompany him to the police
station as my husband has been arrested," the woman said in her
complaint filed Sunday.

She said while taking her to the police station, the man stopped her
at an isolated corner of the platform where four others joined him and
all five raped her in turn. As they left, they threatened that her
husband would be arrested if she reported the matter to the police.The
Government Railway Police (GRP) have lodged a case against
unidentified attackers and are investigating the matter."It is too
early to say anything. We are waiting for the medical report for
further action," a GRP official said.

http://www.mynews.in/MP__Woman_gang-raped_at_railway_station_N28561.html

2 Prez guards get Life term sentence in rape case

Posted On: 22-Aug-2009 19:37:00

New Delhi: A city court on Saturday awarded life sentence to two
members of the President''s bodyguard in the 2003 Buddha Jayanti Park
gangrape case.

Assistant Sessions Judge S.K. Sarvaria awarded life imprisonment to
Harpreet Singh and Satender Singh for raping a 17-year-old student of
a Delhi University college, while two other members, Kuldeep Singh and
Manish Kumar, were given 10 years' rigorous imprisonment each.

The four have been found guilty under sections 394 (robbery), 366
(kidnapping) and 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
Harpreet and Satender have also been convicted for gangrape under
section 376 (2G) of the IPC.

The victim, who had gone with her friend to the park near Rashtrapati
Bhavan on Oct 6, 2003, was raped by Harpreet and Satender while the
other two Kuldeep and Manish kept watch.

The prosecution examined 25 witnesses to establish the rape charge.

The four first roughed up the girl's friend and then took her to a
secluded place inside the park where they raped her, the prosecution
had maintained.

http://www.mynews.in/2_Prez_guards_get_Life_term_sentence_in_rape_case_N24118.html

Woman sold after gangrape in UP

Posted On: 19-Jul-2009 16:01:00 Font Size:

Muzaffarnagar: A woman was allegedly sold for Rs 10,000 to a man after
being gangraped by her abductors, police said on Sunday.

According to the police complaint, the woman was picked up by two men
from the railway station on her arrival here from Delhi on July 8
under the pretext of giving her lift.

The men then took her to an unknown location and raped her for two
days. She was later sold for Rs 10,000 to a person in Solapur village
in the district.

However, the woman managed to escape from the house of her buyer
yesterday.

http://www.mynews.in/Woman_sold_after_gangrape_in_UP_N21991.html

5-year-old girl gangraped in TN

Posted On: 09-Jul-2009 20:47:00 Font Size:

Chennai: In a shocking incident, a five-year-old girl was allegedly
gangraped by a group of unidentified persons who left her in a
suburban locality.

Police said the incident occurred in the wee hours of Sunday in
Egathur village on the IT corridor.

The victim''s father, Mohan Rao hailing from Andhra Pradesh, had
immediately taken her to a private hospital which refused to admit the
child on the plea that she was a minor and it was a police case. The
girl was later admitted to the Government Institute of Child Health
here, the police said.

Kelambakkam Police, investigating the case, said Egathur village has a
large number of construction workers from Andhra Pradesh. "We are
interrogating all close relatives of the child. Around 3,000 workers
from Andhra Pradesh are believed to be working at this site," a police
official said.

http://www.mynews.in/5-year-old_girl_gangraped_in_TN_N21131.html

DFS officials begin test of Surat gangrape accused

Posted On: 23-Jun-2009 13:33:00

Gandhinagar: Following the psychological profiling of the three
gangrape accused brought from Surat, the forensic science experts on
Tuesday began their preliminary test for narco analysis, sources
said.

Though officials at Directorate of Forensic Science (DFS) remained
tight-lipped about the case, sources said after completion of the
psychological profiling of the three accused of raping a teenage girl,
some preliminary tests which are part of narco analysis were conducted
on them.

"Even I have not been informed about what was happening inside. I have
been told to bring them to DFS in the morning and take them back in
the evening," Inspector I I Hadia, who brought the three to DFS from
Surat, said.

Narco test is being conducted on the three accused to know about other
crimes committed by them as police found numerous video clips in their
mobile phones.

http://www.mynews.in/DFS_officials_begin_test_of_Surat_gangrape_accused__N20273.html

MMS clips to play crucial role in college girl’s gang rape: Police

Posted On: 21-Jun-2009 19:08:00 Font Size:

Mumbai: The video of the alleged gangrape of a 19-year-old girl at
Mira Road recorded by the accused would be crucial evidence in the
case than the medical report of the victim because of the time lapse
since the incident.

"We will have to depend more upon MMS clips on mobile phones recovered
from the accused. Though the victim would undergo medical examination,
we may not have strong medical evidence against the accused as a lot
of time has passed since she was raped," an investigating officer told
PTI here.

"In this case, MMS clips and circumstantial evidence will be crucial,"
the officer said.

An Arts Faculty student of a private college in Mira Road was
allegedly raped on two occasions on May 14 and June 6 by the accused,
who filmed the crime to blackmail her.

http://www.mynews.in/MMS_clips_to_play_crucial_role_in_college_girl’s_gang_rape__Police_N20176.html

Rape Victim Commits Suicide at DGP's office in Haryana

Posted On: 09-May-2009 09:50:00

Rohtak: Another rape victim in Haryana committed suicide in Front of
Rohtak DGP''s office in protest. Alka, who was gangraped by five
persons, tried to kill herself with her husband on Wednesday at police
officer’s office, with the result Alka died and her husband is in
serious condition.

Alka’s relatives have refused to cremate the body until the police
officers and the guilty are punished.

Alka had filed a case of gang rape against five persons at a police
station in Panipat but the accused are still free due to lack of
evidence.

Alka is survived with two children who are 7 and 5 years old.

Earlier, Sarita a rape victim committed suicide by consuming poison in
front of a police station in Haryana after the police failed to act
against the rapists.

http://www.mynews.in/Rape_Victim_Commits_Suicide_at_DGP's_office_in_Haryana_N18506.html

Hindu man saved me from being gang-raped: Nun

Posted On: 19-Nov-2008 14:44:00

New Delhi: The nun, who was allegedly raped during communal violence
in Kandhamal, has told the Crime Branch of Orissa police that after
the sexual assault, she was saved by a local Hindu man from being
gangraped, police said today.

During her examination by the Crime Branch team in New Delhi, the 29-
year-old nun said that she was raped at K Nuagaon in Baliguda during
Orissa bandh on August 25, the sources said.

Though two others also molested and attempted to rape her immediately
after the incident, a local Hindu man came toher rescue and saved her
from being gangraped, the nun was quoted to have said in her statement
before the Crime Branch team.

Inspector General of Police (Crime Branch) Arun Ray confirmed that
both the nun and Father Thomas Chelan, only witness to the incident,
were examined between 5 p.m. and 7.30 p.m. According to sources, the
nun was confident that she would be able to identify the accused, with
whom she had a scuffle.

However, the alleged victim was worried that she might not be able to
identify the two others who had also attempted to rape her as she was
in a semi-conscious state after being raped, they said.

Expressing her unwillingness to go to Kandhamal again, she urged the
Crime Branch team to organise the Test Identification Parade (TIP) of
accused persons anywhere in Orissa except Kandhamal, sources said.

Narrating her experience, the nun said that the rape was committed
near a stair case of a building, the sources said.

After the incident, she was shocked and completely speechless as her
only help Father Chelan was assaulted by the mob, they said.

The examination of the nun and Father Chelan was held nearly three
months after the incident as both of them were unwilling to cooperate
with the probe saying they had no faith in Orissa police.

However, after the Supreme Court rejected a plea for handing over the
case to the CBI and asked the nun to assist the investigation, they
agreed to cooperate.

Ten persons have been arrested in connection with the incident and the
state government has suspended six police personnel on charges of
dereliction of duty on the basis of the allegation made by the nun.

http://www.mynews.in/Hindu_man_saved_me_from_being_gang-raped__Nun_N12808.html

Orissa: Teenager gangraped in Kendrapara

Posted On: 03-Sep-2008 16:44:00

Kendrapara: Police have registered a case against three youths of
Narayanpada village under Kendrapara Police station of the district on
the charge of gang raping are 18-year-old girl.

Police said the girl was allegedly gangraped by the youths on Sunday
evening at the Bankimundei school. After keeping mum for the last two
days, the victim lodged an FIR last evening.

As per the report, the girl, an inmate of a short stay home in
Kendrapara, had an affair with one Dillip Mallick of Narayanpada
village seven months back. On Sunday evening Dillip allegedly asked
her to meet him at Bankimundei School.

While she was sitting with Dillip at the school veranda Fukuli, Raghua
and Basant of the some village reached the spot and asked Dillip to go
home as his father was looking for him. After Dillip left, the three
youths allegedly raped her and fled from the spot.

Police said all the youths, including Dillip, were absconding and
efforts were on to arrest them.

http://www.mynews.in/Orissa__Teenager_gangraped_in_Kendrapara_N9634.html

Two get death penalty for murder of Australian woman

Posted On: 11-Aug-2008 18:25:00

Two taxi drivers were on Monday awarded the death sentence by a Delhi
court for killing Australian tourist Dawn Emilie Griggs, after
gangraping and robbing her, in 2004.

"Jyotish Prasad and Ashish Kumar, for the offence of brutal murder of
the Australian tourist, you be hanged till death," Additional Sessions
Judge Vinod Kumar said, pronouncing the sentence in a packed
courtroom.

The court also imposed a fine of Rs 3,000 each on the two convicts who
were held guilty of gangrape, robbery, destruction of evidence and
common intention. The court had convicted the two accused on August 2.

Griggs was found murdered in a deserted area in New Delhi on March 17,
2004 within hours of landing at the Indira Gandhi International
Airport from Hong Kong.

Besides awarding the death penalty for murder, the court also handed
down the convicts rigorous life imprisonment for gangraping the
tourist, who had come to India to join a meditation course.

On pronouncement of the verdict, convict Prasad''s mother started
crying inconsolably inside the courtroom. "My poor and innocent son is
wrongly being awarded the death penalty," she said.

Griggs, who landed in Delhi from Hong Kong on a Cathay Pacific Flight
in the wee hours of March 17, 2004 for enrolling for a meditation
course with the Brahmakumari Aishwarya Vidyalaya, had taken a pre-paid
taxi from IGI airport and was later found murdered.

The court convicted Prasad, 28, and Kumar, in his early 30's, for the
various offences in a case which hinged on circumstantial evidence.

As there was no eye-witness to the gruesome killing, the prosecution
had relied upon circumstantial as well as forensic evidence, including
the DNA reports of the convicts, to prove its charges against them.

The police had traced the duo by scrutinising the records of the pre-
paid taxi booth at the airport. Prasad was arrested on the date of the
incident while Kumar was apprehended on his disclosure on March 21.

During the arguments on the quantum of sentence, the prosecution had
sought the gallows for the two cab drivers, describing the offence as
a 'stigma' on the country.

Public Prosecutor Vinod Kumar said that both the convicts had not only
murdered a foreign tourist but also killed the trust of a foreign
nation. The offence is a stigma on the country, which believes in the
policy of 'Atithi

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4 suspected MNS activists held for gangrape of maid
Times Of India, 25 Jul 2009

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Mumbai, Jul 25: Four Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) activists are
reportedly arrested on charges of gang raping a minor girl in MIDC
locality of Andheri.

Buzz up!Ganesh Gatkar, Ganesh Kale, Narendra Salunkhe and Umesh Borade
who were produced before a magistrate in Andheri court on Saturday,
Jul 25 are remanded to police custody till Jul 28.

The incident took place on Sunday, Jul 19 when the four accused
kidnapped the 15-year-old girl who was working as a maid servant. They
took her to a municipal garden in the neighbourhood and raped her in
the cabin of the security guards at around 2 pm.

The girl who initially did not speak of the incident finally gave in
to her mother on Friday, Jul 24, said senior police inspector of MIDC
police station Pradeep Suryawanshi.

The mother who also works as a maid in the same locality took her
daughter to the police station and filed a complaint.

When asked about this incident, MNS vice-president V. Saraswat came up
with the same old claim that it was conspiracy to defame the party.
"However, we are inquiring if they were indeed our party workers. If
found to be true, we shall take strict action against them, there is
no place for such persons in the MNS," he was quoted as saying in a
news agency report.

OneIndia News

http://news.oneindia.in/2009/07/25/four-mns-activists-held-for-gang-raping-minor.html

23-yr-old American student gangraped in MumbaiThursday, April 16,
2009,12:40 [IST]

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US student raped by batchmates in Mumbai
Times Of India, 16 Apr 2009

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Mumbai, Apr 16: A 23-year old foreign national was gang raped by 6 of
her batchmates in a Mumbai apartment. The girl is said to be an
American scholar perusing a diploma course at the Tata Institute of
Social Sciences (TISS) at Deonar.

The victim said in her statement to the police that she and 6 of the
accused left the campus on Saturday, Apr 11 for Andheri, where they
partied at a hotel. Later she went to a flat owned by one of the
accused. It was here, she was raped repeatedly while in an unconscious
state.

Medical reports had confirmed rape. However the TISS sources said that
the accused were not students of the institute. Police said that the
accused were Vinamra Soni, Jaskaran Singh Bullar (alias Karan), Harsh,
Anish, Devasi and Kundan. Police has arrested three of the accused. A
manhunt is launched to nab rest of the culprits.

OneIndia News

http://news.oneindia.in/2009/04/16/23-yr-old-american-student-gangraped-in-mumbai.html

Shivanand Jha, new Surat police chiefSunday, June 14, 2009,15:09
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SIT top cop Shivanand Jha is new Surat police chief
Times Of India, 14 Jun 2009

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Gandhinagar, Jun 14: Shivanand Jha took over as the new Surat city
police commissioner after the incumbent Deepak Swarup was transferred
over his alleged disparaging remarks about a 17-year-old gang rape
victim.


Buzz up!Jha, who was serving as the additional director general of
police, is also a member of the Special Investigation Team (SIT)
probing the post-Godhra riots. The state home department issued
transfer orders to Swarup late Saturday, Jun 13 night and immediately
offered the charge of Surat city to Shivanand Jha, who took over the
same night.

Swarup was transferred for his alleged remarks that the girl, who was
gang raped on Friday, Jun 12, succumbed to the demands of the three
accused men as they had found her in compromising position with her
friend. His remarks led to widespread protests in Surat leading to
Swarup's transfer.

He was handed over the orders late Saturday night when he was hosting
a party at home entertaining the prominent people of the city. The
former police commissioner's new posting is yet to be announced by the
state government.

OneIndia News

http://news.oneindia.in/2009/06/14/shivanand-jha-new-surat-police-chief.html

Gang-rape victim weds police constable in PakMonday, March 16,
2009,9:48 [IST]Subscribe to
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Lahore, Mar 16: Mukhtaran Mai, the woman who was gang-raped by tribals
in 2002 for seeking to safe her brother from radical Islamic justice,
has married a police constable from her native village in
Muzaffargarh, a private TV channel reported on Sunday, Mar 15.

According to The News, Mai married to Nasir Abbas Gabol. It was
Gabol's second marriage and Mai's family members attended the event.

Mai attracted the attention of local and international media after she
was gang-raped on the orders of a panchayat.

Instead of committing suicide as per tradition, she took her case to
court and had her rapists arrested and charged.

Last year, Mai, who has converted herself into a human rights
activist, said women in Pakistan have to keep waiting for justice,
which has been elusive.

She said that women had to face different kinds of pressures within
the family as compared to their male counterparts, and were forced to
live in a suffocating atmosphere.

Commenting on different pressures on women in Pakistani society, Mai
said that the father, brother, husband and then son were cause of the
pressures.

Mai made these remarks while responding to journalists' queries after
she inaugurated the Civic Society Club in Qasimabad.

Mai, who has travelled across the globe, attending conferences and
retelling her ordeal to a world audience, sounded disappointed when
she said she had not received justice so far.

She spoke of bottlenecks in the country's criminal justice system and
said that police usually did not bother to cover important points
while registering an FIR.

Mai emphasised the need for creating awareness and educating women.

Mai said that she had started her school with three girls and now it
had 1,000 students.

Mai is from the village of Meerwala, in the rural tehsil of Punjab and
suffered a gang rape as a form of honour-revenge on the orders of a
panchayat (tribal council).

In April 2007, Mukhtaran Mai won the North-South Prize from the EU
Council of Europe. In 2005, Glamour Magazine named her 'Glamour Woman
of the Year'.

Last month, President Asif Ali Zardari directed the provincial
government of Punjab to take immediate steps to provide speedy relief
to Mai and also ensure her security against harassment by culprits.

Taking notice of various media reports in which it was pointed out
that Mai is being subjected to harassment by some influential people,
Zardari instructed the provincial government that justice should be
delivered without fear or favour.

Zardari also directed that report on the steps taken by the provincial
government be sent to him.

ANI

http://news.oneindia.in/2009/03/16/gang-rape-victim-mukhtaran-mai-weds-police-constable-in.html

7 arrested in Noida gang rape Friday, January 9, 2009,11:31 [IST]

Noida, Jan 9: In the gang rape of Nodia MBA student case, Uttar
Pradesh police have arrested one more person on Jan 8. Till now police
have nabbed seven persons under stringent Gangster Act. Police said
Anil Yadav was arrested from Sadarpur area near Sector 44 late in the
evening on Jan 8.

Police have already formed several teams to nab the three youths in
connection with the gang rape case. The incident came as shocking when
the 24-year-old victim was gang raped while she was returning home
with her friend in their car after shopping at a mall in Sector 39
here on Jan 6.

Little Yadav, who was arrested on Wednesday on Jan 7, was remanded to
14 days of judicial custody. DNA tests of vaginal swab may be
conducted. A Forensic Science Laboratory team from Agra are assisiting
the police for the speedy investigation.

Noida bandh has been called by Samajwadi Party on Jan10. Police have
announced to reward those who help them in arresting the remaining
accused. "We have charged the six accused under Gangsters Act. We are
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SSP Naveen Arora said. Asked whether Noida is planning to impose NSA
on the youths, SP (Noida City) Ashok Tripati said there were no such
plans. There have been reports that the youths will be booked under
the provisions of NSA in this case.

OneIndia News (With inputs from Agencies)

http://news.oneindia.in/2009/01/09/seven-arrested-in-noida-gang-rape.html

Friday, March 14, 2008,15:06 [IST]

Panaji, Mar 14: Goa government today ordered a thorough probe into the
''acts of commission and omission'' of a forensic expert who conducted
the first autopsy on the body of British minor girl Scarlett keeling.

The Goa police had used the first autopsy report to conclude that
Scarlett had accidentally drowned, but the doctor claimed to have said
in his supplementary report the British teenager could have met with
unnatural death due to rape and homicide, as confirmed in the second
autopsy also. Chief Secretary J P Singh, also in charge of Home, told
the sources that he had ordered the probe into the role of Dr Silvano
Dias Sapeco, professor and head of the Foreisic Department, Goa
Medical College and Hospital, for alleged lapses.

The government had already suspended Anjuna Police station house
officer sub-inspector Nerlon Albuquerque pending departmental inquiry
into the alleged ''lapses in the investigation of the Keeling case''.

The government was also investigating in the drug cartel angle linked
to heavy drugging of the foreigner. The police was trying to trace the
origin and distribution network of the drugs which include Ecstacy,
opium, charas, LSD and cocaine.

The Goa police has a strong Anti-Narcotics cell headed by a
Superintendent of Police with its intelligence network around the
beaches.

The issue of the gory crime in this international tourist destination
had echoed in Parliament yesterday with the victim's mother writing a
letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking a Central probe into
Goa police-drug cartel nexus.

UNI

http://news.oneindia.in/2008/03/14/keeling-case-doctors-role-to-be-probed-1205487374.html

bademiyansubhanallah

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Man held for raping daughters .
Sunday, 21 February 2010 03:00 .

Lucknow, Feb. 20: A 50-year-old man has been arrested in Barabanki
district for allegedly raping his two teenage daughters for nearly two
years.

Siyaram Rawat, a resident of Sarai Saif village in Barabanki and a
farmer by profession, Lucknow, repeatedly raped his daughters, aged 17
and 14, at a rented house near his farm where he had held them
captive. Rawat has confessed to his crime.

According to police reports, Rawat had taken a small house on rent in
Pahi village saying that it was near his fields.

He took his elder daughter to the house, forced her to drink alcohol
and then raped her. A few days later, he brought his younger daughter
and subjected her to similar treatment. He would lock up the girls in
the house while going to work.

On Friday, the two girls somehow managed to break open a window and
escaped from the house. They narrated the incidents to their mother
and later went to the police with their complaint.

Rawat was arrested on Friday night from his house.

Amita Verma

http://www.asianage.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3255:man-held-for-raping-daughters&catid=35:india&Itemid=60

Sid Harth

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South Delhi godman busted for sex racket
Rahul Tripathi, TNN, Feb 28, 2010, 12.38am IST

Shiv Murti Dwivedi.NEW DELHI: From earning a meagre Rs 2,000 to raking
in a princely Rs 5 lakh every month, Shiv Murti Dwivedi alias Sant
Swami Bhimanand Ji Maharaj Chitrakoot Wale (39) has come a long way in
the past 22 years. Dwivedi, a self-styled godman, was arrested by
south district police on Friday for operating a high-profile sex
racket. It involved former airhostesses and students.

Starting as a security guard at a five-star hotel at Nehru Place in
1988, he landed in the middle of a prostitution racket in his quest
for quick riches. He was first arrested in Lajpat Nagar in 1997 for
running a prostitution racket with a massage parlour as a facade.

Dwivedi had himself worked at a massage parlour in the same area in
1990 where he was earning a monthly salary of Rs 3000. He also used to
get Rs 20 for every massage. Here he came in contact with pimps and
had soon picked up tricks of the trade. Within a few months, Dwivedi
had started his own massage parlour during which he came in contact
with pimps like jailed Kanwaljeet and Sonu Punjaban to whom he even
supplied call girls.

After his arrest, he changed tack, turning to Shirdi Sai Baba and
meditation. He used to meditate at a Badarpur temple and soon
attracted a string of followers. With their help, he bought land in
Khanpur's C-block in 2000.

"Dwivedi had more than a lakh devotees and in 2002 bought another plot
of land in Khanpur where he built a three-storey house which has
nearly 14 rooms," said a senior police officer. The temple had CCTVs
installed inside with the control room in his private chamer. He even
built a tunnel inside the temple.

Dwivedi, according to the cops, has garnered assets worth several
crores in the past 12 years. Besides a 20-acre plot in Chitrakoot
where he was building a hospital and a temple and the temple and house
in Delhi, Dwivedi had also rented three government flats in different
areas of south Delhi. He used two of these for running his racket
while one was used as a temple rest house.

DCP (south) HGS Dhaliwal said, "Dwivedi was also arrested in a stolen
property case in 1998. He called himself Ichchadhari Sant Swami
Bhimanand Ji Maharaj Chitrakoot and claimed to be a disciple of Sai
Baba." Police said he also ran a security agency at Khanpur.

On Saturday when Times City visited the temple in Khanpur, all the
flats were locked. Locals said their complaints to the cops had gone
unheard all these years and the Baba and his cohorts have been
threatening them. "They always had politicians and businessmen
visiting them," said Rajendra Kumar, a resident of the area.

The police say Dwivedi organised several pravachans and satsangs
involving politicians. A couple of prominent politicians have,
meanwhile, denied any links with Dwivedi, saying they knew him only as
a disciple of Sai Baba.

Dwivedi had recently delivered a sermon in North Avenue which was
attended by several prominent MPs and MLAs. The racket was busted when
the police received a complaint regarding his activities. The cops
found that he had floated a website. A decoy customer was sent and a
deal stuck after which the police nabbed him and six women.

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No sex education in Gujarat schools
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Feb 28, 2010, 10:45:07 AM2/28/10
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A staggering increase in gang rape of young girls in India especially
in collaboration with police – is Government sleeping?
Balaji Reddy
May 5, 2005

Gang rape of young girls in India has skyrocketed since last year. The
recent rape of young girls in Mumbai and now in Lucknow is causing
massive ripple effects. Young girls are outright afraid to go out
alone especially in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.

In an incident that is creating ripples in the city, a minor girl
working as a domestic help was allegedly tortured and gangraped by
three men who forced her into their car while she was on her way back
from work.

Though the incident took place on Monday, it came to light only on
Wednesday evening when her family approached police asking for action
and protection against death threats.

According to a police complaint, the 15-year-old was dragged into the
car while returning home around 8 pm on Monday. She was gagged and
driven to a secluded spot where she was molested and tortured with
cigarette butts. She was then forced at gunpoint to accompany the
three boys to a vacant house where she was raped.

"My screams were drowned in the loud music that was deliberately
played by the boys," she has told the police. Though the police have
confirmed cigarette burns on her body, she has complained that
personnel at the Aashiyana police station, where she went to after
being dumped by the men on Tuesday, did not have her medically
examined.

"Only after I gave them an undertaking that I would not talk about the
incident to anyone did they agree to set me free," she has alleged.

Commenting on the police role, district police chief Navneet Sikera:
"All I can assure you is that our men are on the job and we will track
down the culprits at all costs." And while the wheels of justice get
moving, the victim's father, a small-time waste-seller, has been doing
the rounds of various newspaper offices to mobilise public opinion. He
has apparently told the police that he was being intimidated and
offered allurements to withdraw the case.

Opposition parties, including the Congress, have condemned the Mulayam
Singh Yadav Government for the increasing incidents of crime in the
state.

"When such is the state of affairs in the state capital, you can
imagine the lawlessness that prevails in other parts of the state,"
said a Congress leader, citing crime bureau reports showing that as
many as 309 minor girls were raped in the state during 2002.

The incident is one more blot in a state where three to four women are
raped a day and where official statistics recorded 1,425 rapes in
2003.

http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/2554.asp

India: Teachers who gang-raped their own students linked to Modi
government
Written by Rajesh Tyagi in Delhi
Thursday, 16 April 2009
An incredible case of repeated gang rape of female students in Indian
colleges was revealed last year, eventually leading to the culprits
being sentenced to life imprisonment. But this was no ordinary case of
rape; it involved an attempt at a cover-up that led right to the top
of the national government itself. It was only the courageous action
of the female students, a female teacher and then the families of the
victims that eventually achieved justice. The case has brought out the
terrible suffering that ordinary working people in India have to
bear.
On March 6, 2009, a Fast Track Court in Ahmedabad convicted all the
six accused in the Patan gang rape case and sentenced them to life
imprisonment. The accused are not only active members of the right-
wing ‘Sangh Parivar’, but are directly associated or related to those
in Narendra Modi’s cabinet.


Narendra Modi's government has been implicated in cover-up of rape of
poor girls. Photo by World Economic Forum. After gang rapes of several
Muslim women, including mass rape of Bilkis Bano as part of the 2002
Godhra genocide, the saffron brigades of Narendra Modi turned to poor
Hindu girls, committing gang rape of at least 98 such girls in Patan,
Gujarat. Most shameful was the fact that this time the offenders were
all teachers and the victims were their own students. In a case, where
the victim dared to withstand all humiliation, threats and harassment,
the Fast Track Court ultimately found the accused guilty and sentenced
them to life. The people however demanded that the accused be handed
over to them.

The Patan serial gang rape case shook the conscience of civilised
society, when on the heels of the electoral victory of the BJP in
Gujarat, i.e. only two months after the December 2007 elections were
over, it was revealed that at least six teachers of the Women’s
Teacher Training College in Patan, all closely associated with
Ministers in Modi’s cabinet, had committed serial gang rape of so many
girl students, forcing them into submission and silence on the threat
to fail them in internal assessment. It was the heroic action of one
female teacher Bharati Patel and her students that resulted in
exposure of the entire scandal. The organised crime had been going on
inside the College with knowledge of the concerned authorities, at
least since 2000.

It was political patronage for these criminals that made all
complaints and protests ineffective and redundant every time. It was
only after a huge public protest in Patan on February 4, where
people a twenty five thousand strong crowd not only came in unison
across the party, caste and community identities, but physically
assaulted the rapists, so much so that the police had to intervene to
save them and only then a case could be registered, which ultimately
resulted in conviction of these rapists.

The Primary Teachers’ Certificate (PTC) College of Patan, is run by
the State Government through the District Institute of Educational
Technology (DIET) and is situated on the outskirts of the city. This
college had become a den of criminals under the patronage of Ministers
in Modi’s cabinet, especially during the two decades tenure of Anandi
Patel as Education Minister. The six teachers, now sentenced to life
imprisonment by the Fast Track Court for the offence of gang rape of
their own student, Guddi, a poor dalit girl, since long had been
indulging in a whole series of gang rape of poor girls, while all
complaints made against them were going unheard with the authorities.

The kingpin among those convicted, Atul Patel, the most influential
among them, is a local leader of the BJP and very close to Anandi Ben
Patel, the present Revenue Minister and former Education Minister. He
was in charge of the whole election campaign of the Minister in the
2002 elections, in Patan. This Anandi Ben Patel is known for her
closeness with Chief Minister Narendra Modi. It is during her tenure
that sexual harassment of female students had become a routine
phenomenon in the state. Several direct complaints were made against
Atul Patel, but all of them were suppressed by the authorities under
political pressure. One may find the extent of political patronage in
the fact that this Atul Patel was awarded with the All India Ramanujam
Maths club, the best Maths teacher Award, when the BJP was in power at
the centre. The shamefaced government had to withdraw the award after
Atul Patel was exposed as kingpin in the Patan serial rape case.

The second convicted teacher Manish Parmar, the drawing teacher in the
college, is a close relative of the present Education Minister
Ramanlal Vora. He is famous for keeping a knife in his pocket on the
college campus and the female students were terrified of him.
Amazingly, while other teachers in the College were empowered to grade
the students between 50-100 marks in internal assessment, Manish
Parmar was specially authorised to grade the students of 250 marks.
This Manish Parmar used to shortlist 10 girls in every batch, using
mobile and video cameras, and a computer to upload their images,
keeping the best one for himself. On October 17, 2000 a complaint was
filed by a female student against Manish Parmar, but to no avail.
Again in 2004 another complaint of sexual molestation was filed by a
student Daksha Parmar against Manish, but in vain.

The system of internal marking was so whimsically and intriguingly
designed to empower the teachers to exercise arbitrary control over
the students by putting 40-44% marks out of the aggregate, at their
disposal. This system virtually armed the male teachers with an
unguided power to blackmail the poor and innocent female students,
forcing them to submit into silence against all harassment and
violence. This system of internal marking had come into question about
22 years ago when incidents similar to that in Patan had shaken
Meghraj Taluka, where 15 girls were raped by their teachers in the
same manner. 15 cases were lodged at that time. Later the cases were
suppressed and the girl victims were denied degrees. Again, following
a complaint from the PTC college at Rajkot, by a girl student, it was
recommended that the system of internal marking be scrapped, but the
errant teachers having direct influence inside the Modi cabinet
succeeded in having the recommendation shelved off. Despite all
complaints and protests and recommendations by different bodies in
that regard, this power was not scrapped until the people came out on
the streets, took the law into their own hands and beat up the
perpetrators of the crime.

Not only the system of internal marking is so designed to put the
future of hapless students at the whim of the teachers, but also
arrangements were secured for the perpetration of the crime. The
errant male teachers, with political patronage, conveniently secured
the postings for themselves in women’s colleges. The reply of the
Minister Anandi Patel and Ramanlal Vora to this deliberate mischief
that there was a dearth of female teachers, is totally misplaced in
view of the fact that the existing 70 female teachers appointed in
State run colleges were more than sufficient to be posted in 6 girls’
colleges, while 156 male teachers could have been conveniently
accommodated in 16 boys colleges. But it was knowingly done otherwise,
with the connivance of the authorities and politicians, above all the
Education Minister herself. The devils linked to the Modi Government
were knowingly given postings in the girls’ colleges, enabling them to
exploit the hapless women.

Students have explained how the teachers in the Patan College used to
tell the female students to give a smile and apply honey to their lips
to get marks. The principal JN Chaudhary himself was part of the
entire scandal and deliberately used to visit the hostel in the late
hours of the night in the absence of the rector and used to enter the
rooms of students to harass them. Complaints were made against him
also by the parents of the students, but the warden of the hostel,
Jashoda Joshi, hand in glove with these criminals, continued to tell
the guardians that it is the girls who were of questionable virtue.
This Jashoda Joshi, used to assist the rapists by providing them free
access to the girls’ hostel in odd hours of the night and used to
pacify the girl victim after they had been raped, advising them not to
make a complaint and “to learn to get used to it”. Principal Chaudhary
was a Matriculate and did not even qualify for appointment to the
office of Principal, but got appointed to the post thanks to his
political links with those in power. KT Purania, who took over the
office from JN Chaudhary, also had complaints lodged against him of a
similar description by female students during his previous tenure at
Palanpur College.

Bharati Patel, a female lecturer, who joined the services in 1997, and
played a heroic role in defence of poor students in the Patan rape
case, had herself made a written complaint way back on February 27,
2001, narrating the details of sexual exploitation of innocent female
students in the college. Instead of any action being taken on her
complaint, Bharati Patel was transferred to Palanpur, to subject her
to hardship, as a measure of punishment for making the complaint, and
managed to get transferred back only in 2007. It was Atul Patel, now a
convict, who managed to wangle the transfer of Bharati Patel through
the Minister Anandi Ben Patel. Bharati was threatened by Atul Patel
and his criminal colleagues, but the brave woman refused to relent.

The criminal teachers, enjoying the political patronage of the Modi
government, continued with what can be termed as a most heinous crime
against humanity. It was reported that these beasts used to decide the
question as to who would rape which girl first through a drawing of
lots among them. The gang rapes were then photographed on mobile and
video cameras, to further blackmail their student victims. After each
gang rape they forced a heavy dose of anti-pregnancy pills down the
throats of their victims and used to shave the pubic hair of their
victims to wash the traces of semen and thus wipe out all evidence of
the rape. This all pre-planned, points to the organised nature of the
crime perpetrated by hardcore criminals, having no fear of the law.

Although sexual exploitation of female teachers and students is also
rampant in private colleges, the government colleges all over Gujarat
continue to outshine the private ones in this field, specially during
the rule of the BJP in the State. Although the Education Minister,
Anandi Patel, continued to say that no such complaint had ever been
made to her, it turned out that no less than 28 female students and
teachers had made written complaints during her tenure as Education
Minster, but with no action being taken.

The present case, in which the six perpetrators of gang rape have been
sentenced to serve life imprisonment, is the sordid story of a very
bright but poor dalit girl, Guddi, who was gang raped 14 times by
these beasts over a period of four and a half months, on the college
campus itself and on excursion tours as part of her internship. The
scandal of premeditated serial rape was exposed when on January 31
2008 the victim fainted in the prayer hall of the college and was
taken to a doctor by her teacher Bharati Patel and her colleagues, who
confirmed rape of the girl. 97 other students of the college then came
out with their own stories of similar gang rape forced upon them by
the same teachers.

Guddi is one of the five children of a daily wage labourer from the
Jetalvasana village of Visnagar Taluka in Mehsana district in Gujarat.
Without any aid, she had secured 89% marks in matriculation
examination and more than 70% in XII standard, on her own efforts made
against all odds of life. In order that her studies could continue,
her father had to discontinue the studies of her brother. She wished
to become a doctor, but because of the poverty in the family, she
enrolled herself to become a primary teacher on July 24, 2007 at the
Primary Teachers’ Certificate (PTC) College at Patan. The girls’
college is run by the Gujarat Government through the District
Institute of Educational Technology (DIET). Her father requested one
Prof. Baloch to see if financial aid could be arranged from the
college. Baloch, in turn sent the girl to Prof. Ashwin Parmar. On
September 11,2007, Ashwin Parmar called the girl to the Educational
Technology room, after the recess, where he and two other teachers,
Manish Parmar and Mahendra Parjapati, ripped off her clothes before
taking turns to rape her. They also made videos of the gang rape and
warned her not to disclose it or face the consequences. The
traumatised victim thereafter started to faint at the mere sight of
these teachers. On September 13, 2007, i.e. two days after the rape,
when she fainted in the presence of students, the rapist teachers
suggested that the girl was affected by “evil spirits” and themselves
took her for witchcraft!

Fifteen days later Manish Parmar called Guddi to the college
laboratory, where he was joined by two other teachers, Kiran Patel and
Suresh Patel in the gang rape of the poor girl. While Manish and
Suresh raped her, Kiran Patel, who raised the plea of impotence in his
defence in the trial, continued to sexually abuse the girl and film
the act.

On the excursion tour of students, to Khumbhwa Village, as part of her
internship, between December 31, 2007 and January 11 2008, Suresh,
Manish and Kiran repeated the same act at 8pm on the eve of new year
and then at 3.30am in the dead of the night of January 11, after a
cultural programme. Later in the month, after gang rape by five of the
lecturers, Atul Patel committed repeated rape upon the girl victim. On
January 25, this Atul Patel, again raped the victim in the Computer
room of the college.

Due to this trauma, the victim continued to lose consciousness
repeatedly at the sight of her rapist teachers. On January 30, 2008,
the victim disclosed her woes to a friend and then again fainted on
the next day in the prayer hall of the college. Bharati Patel took her
to a Psychiatrist and then to a Gynaecologist, who confirmed rape. The
friend of the victim then disclosed it to Bharati Patel. As the news
of gang rape of students by the teachers in the college spread,
shocked and enraged parents and guardians rushed to the college where
97 other female students, who were also subjected to gang rape by
these teachers, also came out with similar complaints. A written
complaint was thus made on January 31 on behalf of the 98 students
victims of gang rape, molestation, outraging of modesty and criminal
intimidation, etc. But because of the political influence of the
culprits no action was taken against them by the authorities.

On February 4, 2008, students and their parents decided to take the
matter into their own hands. They organised a demonstration and during
that protest caught hold of the rapist teachers and beat them severely
with sticks and brickbats and damaged their vehicles. It was now that
the police swung into action to save the culprits from the wrath of
the enraged public, which was calling for the lynching of the
rapists.

On February 5, a spontaneous protest broke out in support of the
victims, the female students, and against the rapists. A 25,000-strong
crowd was on the roads, cutting across the party lines and caste and
communal identities, in protest against the ghastly crime and the
political patronage of the ruling BJP. Only the local leaders of Sangh
Parivar had remained absent. They however failed to prevent their
cadres from joining the mass protest. To pacify the angry crowd, the
police however had to arrest the rapists and register a case u/s 376
and 506 of IPC, on the statement of victim Guddi. The rapist teachers
were then brought before the Judicial Magistrate, who remanded them
into police custody. The victim was however made to wait for more than
six hours in the civil hospital before her medical examination could
be conducted. Taking precautions, Bharati Patel, however, got the
statement of the victim recorded before the Judicial Magistrate u/s
164 Cr.P.C. on 7 February 7.

Seeing the situation slipping out of their hands, the high-ups in the
Modi government decided on a further damage control exercise.
Apprehensive of the police inquiry going much beyond its apparent
frame, exposing those sitting at the top of the BJP government,
Narendra Modi, appointed four police officers to ensure that the
inquiry in the case would remain confined only to the role of those
named by the students. Hastily a magisterial inquiry was also ordered,
but deliberately without any terms of reference.

On February 23, Jamna Taral, a handmaiden of the BJP was appointed as
Principal of the college. Her husband was placed as the District
Education Officer in Patan. His car had been impounded by the Election
Commission during the 2002 elections for being misused in the election
campaign of the BJP. Taral immediately started to intimidate the
students and their parents to keep their hands off the case, and
started harassing and defaming the student victims themselves. She
threatened the students with failure in marking if they went against
the culprits in the case.

While the students continued to boycott the college, the parents
formed an Association to fight the injustice. Fifteen representatives
of the Association, led by its president Ghemar Chaudhary, a school
teacher in the city, accompanied by father of the dalit girl victim,
came to Gandhinagar to meet Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister, where
the inaugural session of the Legislative Assembly was in the offing.
However, Narendra Modi refused to meet the delegation. Instead the
delegation was routed to Education Minister Ramanlal Vora, who
redirected them to the Minister of State for health and family
welfare, Parbat Patel, only to be warned by the Minister against
creating any trouble during the session of Assembly. They were also
told to withdraw the agitation against the government. The Personal
Assistant to Education Minster downplayed the incident saying “it goes
on”.

Later they were told the same thing by Amit Shah, Minister of Home and
Rishikesh Patel, MLA from Visnagar Taluka. None of the Ministers
however exchanged a word with the father of the girl victim. Rather,
Ghemar Chaudhary, the president was threatened in private of dire
consequences by Amit Shah and Ramanlal Vora.

The delegation, however, submitted its complaint to the GCERT. As soon
as they came out of the office of the GCERT, the delegation was
surrounded by police and was taken to the Arbuda Hotel in Gojharia, to
be produced before Shankar Chaudhary, MLA from Radhanpur and the BJP
State Secretary from Patan, K.C. Patel. First they tried to play the
caste card demanding to know how Patels and Chaudharys had joined
hands with dalits. Failing this they directly threatened the
delegation to withdraw their agitation.

Ghemar Chaudhary had since received a “show cause notice” for
unauthorised absence from the school, while Kirit Patel ,another
member of the delegation, and a lecturer at Law College Patan and
member of the Senate of North Gujarat University, has received threats
from the authorities. However, the culprits were neither dismissed
from services nor were their degrees cancelled.

Terrified of the ire of people, the leaders of Sangh Parivar, the RSS
and BJP stopped appearing in public. The state president of the BJP
issued open directive to the cadres of the BJP not to support any
agitation against the rapist teachers. Unable to stop the mass
protests, they started to malign the protesters as anti-BJP and anti-
Modi and blamed the girl victims themselves for their woes.

Failing this, the patrons of the ghastly crime then started to
publicise the videos of gang rape of the girl through MMS on mobiles,
to demoralise the victim. But even this could not break the resolve of
the brave victim. Repelling all pressures she courageously deposed
against the accused in the trial which ultimately led to the
sentencing of the guilty to life imprisonment. The conviction of the
guilty is said to have been founded upon consistent testimony of the
victim prosecutrix, fully corroborated by forensic evidence in the
form of traces of semen of the rapists from the different spots
pointed out by the victim in her statement to the police and before
the Court. The people thus could identify the real face of the “moral
police of saffrons”, repenting to bring these patrons of criminals and
gangsters to power in the state.

The elite classes always oppose publicising such events in the media,
as it invites public fury against their rule at large and exposes the
regime of capital as a whole. Media reports of the Patan gang rape
case, however, supported the mass agitation and helped a lot in
spreading the news about the crime and public protest against it.
Media support for the protest helped other victims come out into the
open and support the agitation. It exposed a lot the role of the
“saffrons”, those moral policemen, in perpetration of the crime.

On Februray 11, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) issued
notices to the Gujarat Government. The State Commission was still not
constituted in the state. On February 14, several voluntary
organisations and individuals joined hands in Ahmedabad to form a
“Citizens Forum” against the Patan Gang Rape. The Forum decided to
commemorate the Women’s Day on March 8 every year as “Patan Day”. The
team of NCW which visited Gujarat, confirmed that the incident was not
an isolated one and that there were many Patans in Gujarat.

In fact, not only students but also female teachers in the PTCs are
also being subjected to such exploitation at the hands of those
connected to power. If the situation in government colleges is so
horrible, one can imagine what the state of affairs in private
colleges must be. The PTCs have mushroomed in the state as a source of
generation of huge profits out of the heavy fee extracted from poor
students who want to become teachers, after the National Council for
Teachers Education (NCTE) introduced the concept of self financing
institutes.

More than 450 PTCs exist in Gujarat today, most of which are self-
financing, with about 3000 paid seats reserved in the management
quota. Out of these, about 140 are girls’ colleges where around 20,000
girls are enrolled. It is compulsory for the girls to stay in the
hostels, while most of these hostels have no female wardens. No
financial assistance or scholarships exist in these colleges. One can
imagine what sort of training these future teachers get in these
slaughterhouses. Shirking its responsibility of preparing teachers in
the state, and deliberately leaving the field open for profiteers, the
state government runs only 16 colleges through the DIET in the entire
state of which one is in Patan.

It is simply a well orchestrated rumour that women have become safer
under BJP rule, while in reality the situation has become much worse
under their rule, with the imposed silence upon women in the docile
society of Gujarat, linked to family honour, coupled with the rule of
the conservative BJP, forces the women to keep quiet and bear the
tyranny. The rule of fascist elements does not improve the conditions
of women in a capitalist society, but only makes this exploitation of
women more unbearable and suffocating, by choking and silencing any
resistance against this exploitation.

Capitalism has made a virtual mockery of mass education. The whole
system of education under capitalism has become merely a trade shop
for sale of certificates, degrees and diplomas, making them a
precondition for employment and thus sustenance of life. Capitalists,
who own private institutions and those holding governmental power,
exploit this situation of the mass of the people. Education is
institutionalised into a commodity in the market, controlled by the
capitalists, bureaucrats and politicians, who emerge as an organised
education mafia. They rob people not only of money for obtaining the
degrees and diploma, but also exploit the women sexually, who are
vulnerable to it. Not only students but even teachers fall prey to it.
Capitalism constitutes a hell for working people. Only socialism can
guarantee a dignified life for billions of working people and for that
the yoke of the rule of the capitalists has to be removed.

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Did anyone catch this news?

Rahul Gandhi has sent notices to Hinduunity.org website - to a person
named Rohit Viasman and Ezboard website - for spreading "obscenene and
indecent" information about him.

Abhishek Singhvi, his lawyer (and Congress spokesman) said it was very
hard to find out the names and addresses of people sending information
on Internet, but somehow he managed to find out the identity of these
people, who are living in the USA. He also said this information was
spread from the Hinduunity website and the person claims to be a
Bajrang Dal activist. He said these people are bringing a badname to
Hinduism.

http://www.jagran.co...aspx?id=3080998
and
http://timesofindia....how/1556410.cms

A little bit of google gave this document : http://melbourne.ind...loads/rahul.pdf

1. Above document clearly has the postal address and email address of
the writer. So why did Mr. Abhishek Singhvi have any difficulty
identifying or reaching the owners of the document?

2. Isn't HinduUnity website banned in India anyways?

Here is the blogspot blog about the case : http://intellibriefs...-gang-rape.html

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Rahul Gandhi sends notice to US-based Web site
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Congress member of Parliament Rahul Gandhi has sent a legal notice to
US-based Web site www.hinduunity.org for alleged "perverted,
scurrilous and gutter writing" against him and his family members.

Seems like Hinduunity had exposed this story and below NDTV blog is
saying same on Gang Rape. Any clue? Is it true? NDTV blog is carrying
girl's picture.
Is this true??RAHUL GANDHI INVOLVED IN GANG RAPE
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crosspost

Google search
http://www.google.co...ape&btnG=Search

Results 1 - 10 of about 47,200 for Rahul Gandhi rape. (0.21 seconds)

It is everywhere.
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-crosspost

http://scotland.indy.../3659/index.php
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The following Reporters who were present on 4th December,2006 to cover
Rahul's Trip in Amethi and who were given information about the
incident. These reporters were informed about the incident, none of
them took interest to look into the matter

a) IBN7
b) Dainik Jagran, Dainik Bhaskar
c) Punjab Kesari
d) Hindusthan Times (Hindi)
e) Times of India & Times now
f) NDTV (Hindi)
g) Aaj Tak
h) Star News
i) Nav bharath times

Sukanya

Sukanya and his mother are said to be hiding in one of their Relatives
House in Harayana. Our Sources in Lucknow say that "The Congress men
have been ordered to kill them at sight before they come out in open
or approach the president" .Congressman have been deployed at all 7
borders of UP & Delhi to trace both motherand and Daughter .
Congressmen deployed at checkposts have been provided photographs of
Sukanya.

Door to Door Searching is on in Amethi and neighbouring Villages to
track down them, and simultaneously the villagers are being warned and
threathened if they provide protection to both mother and daughter.

As per the information, both Mother and Daughter are alive (Updated
information about 10:00 P.M IST 16/1/2007) and search is going on.
There is likely that Congressmen and Congress Governments in other
states are secretely been instructed to track them down and hand over
to them at the earliest.

We have no information like who is contacting the president on behalf
of them. We are trying to gather information from our people in New
Delhi whether the Human Rights has seriously registered their
Complaints. Our people are hesistant to to because there is a
possibility that they may apprehend us and hand over us to the police
or congressmen for questioning.

Few Congress MLA'S from Uttar Pradesh are under tremendrous pressure
from the high command to Locate both mother and daughter and finish
the needful.Secretly a reward has been announced by the Congress High
Command if whosoever provides info or ...... Congressman from other
districts and states are touring all over UP & Delhi.

"I am sure they have decided to kill both mother and daughter."

IMPORTANT : Father of the victim Mr.Balram Singh has either gone
underground or has been killed, he is not to be seen since 4th January
2007.

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-- The Victim's family Address in Amethi UP is

Ms.Sukanya 's address
23-12 Medical Choke
Sanjay Gandhi Marg,
Amethi,
Raebareli, UP
India

-- Ms.Sukanya and Mother last seen on January 19 , 2007 . Missing .
-- Congress goons are still looking for her
-- Father of Victim Mr.Balram is still missing
-- We interviewed people , very soon we will air video interviews
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Looks like coverup.
Repetition of Sanjay Gandhi days ? He was forced to marry Menaka.

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QUOTE(Mudy @ Feb 3 2007, 07:18 AM)
Looks like coverup.
Repetition of Sanjay Gandhi days ? He was forced to marry Menaka.

Rahul marry his victim? Mmm...no chance of that. Insead, the current
Nehru-Gandhi-Maino clan, infused with Mafia blood, will just bump off
the girl and her entire family, and bury them five feet under, and
send a dead bird in a shoe box around to anyone who dares to talk.

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it's just the tip of the iceberg. far more heinous crimes have been
done by these nehruvian bastards.
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Those who are in India and unable to see Hinduunity.org website,
should use following links to few website

http://proxy.org/pro...y=proxystep.com

or use any of these option to view blocked sites
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You can still access blocked websites through RSS readers, Google
caches, or by using anonymisers that let you surf via internet
connections hosted outside India. These include:
http://www.translate.google.com
http://www.hidemyass.com
http://surf-free-anonymous-proxy.com
http://www.shadowsurf.com
http://www.inblogs.net
http://www.pkblogs.com
http://tools.superhit.in
http://www.browseatwork.com
http://httproxy.mozdev.org (Firefox extension)
http://www.ninjaproxy.com
http://www.shysurfer.com
http://anonymouse.org

Or download softwares such as http://webaccelerator.google.com or
http://torpark.nfshost.com
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Nobody wants to comment on Rahul Gandhi
http://mangalorean.c...al&newsid=38867

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Although the campaign and the blogs had been brought to the notice of
many senior Congress leaders, they were reluctant to respond to it
earlier.

"It is true that we came to know about it. But we did not want to take
up the issue. You do not what goes wrong in the Congress party,
especially when the issue is about the Gandhi family," admitted a
party leader who requested that he be not identified.

Added another: "No sensible Congress leader would make a comment nor
would they take a pro-active role to counter it. One never knows when
the issue could boomerang."
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QUOTE(Mudy @ Feb 4 2007, 08:18 PM)

Added another: "No sensible Congress leader would make a comment nor
would they take a pro-active role to counter it. One never knows when
the issue could boomerang

Not only congies the media has been very reluctant to take this up.
Shows the confidence they have in their star-campaigner.

On a sidenote isnt rajmataa worried of finding a yuvraaj to carry the
dynasty forward ? Why is RG still unmarried ? Shouldnt congies be
worried about that too ?
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Rahul Gandhi's Gang Rape
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=9y8xi2itgUo

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mRi47W5JxfU

http://youtube.com/watch?v=88AdVaP1d3o

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=n09iuYVaE9U

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=y9v0LNXivA8
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http://www.indiadail...al/04-07-04.htm
Rahul-Juanita connection � Why Amethi is full of Colombian girls?

the article is written by a fawning kangressi reporter. It says that
amethi has become an import center for columbian girls.

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I am shocked and this is scary.
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Regarding post 11:
Does anyone have the time to summarise in maybe a sentence or two the
gist of each of the videos? I don't understand Hindi at all and would
like to know what is being said. Can't make out anything from the
context (other than that the interviewees are so afraid they don't
want to be identified).
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It says they saw girl entered house where "Rahul Bhai" (Rahul brother)
was inside with his friend. Later she came out crying and clothes were
torn and she told them Rahul forced himself on her, later his friends
who were foreigners joined him and she was gang raped by him and his
friends. Altogether there were 8-12 men were present inside. They are
now afraid that Congress workers may kill them. In case, it goes to
court they will not hesitate to give statement.

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Many thanks, Mudy.
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New witness video:
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=3UihBIoH-8Q
Shri Ratan Singh, Amethi Resident
(missing since video release according to the Hinduunity site)
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QUOTE(dhu @ Mar 7 2007, 09:56 AM)
New witness video:

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=3UihBIoH-8Q
Shri Ratan Singh, Amethi Resident
(missing since video release according to the Hinduunity site)

The video's been flagged as containing 'inappropriate content' (some
hardcore congressi fan couldn't handle the revelations and probably
complained to Youtube once he saw his favourite idols were being
incriminated). As a result, Youtube's made it restricted access:
members only.

For those who don't want to join Youtube, here's just the audio track
of the "Rahul Gandhi Raped Sukhanya - More Proof" video. (The video
was of the interviewee whose identity was masked by focussing the
camera on a large cloth covering him):
http://www.bestshari...677/RG.mp3.html (mp3 file, 1.33Mb)

The people who posted it at Youtube need to eventually provide a
subtitled version as well, the rest of us Indians don't know what's
being said. If it weren't for the title, we'd have no clue.

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QUOTE(Bodhi @ Feb 3 2007, 05:39 AM)
Did anyone catch this news?

Rahul Gandhi has sent notices to Hinduunity.org website - to a person
named Rohit Viasman and Ezboard website - for spreading "obscenene and
indecent" information about him.

Abhishek Singhvi, his lawyer (and Congress spokesman) said it was very
hard to find out the names and addresses of people sending information
on Internet, but somehow he managed to find out the identity of these
people, who are living in the USA. He also said this information was
spread from the Hinduunity website and the person claims to be a
Bajrang Dal activist. He said these people are bringing a badname to
Hinduism.

http://www.jagran.co...aspx?id=3080998
and
http://timesofindia....how/1556410.cms

A little bit of google gave this document : http://melbourne.ind...loads/rahul.pdf

1. Above document clearly has the postal address and email address of
the writer. So why did Mr. Abhishek Singhvi have any difficulty
identifying or reaching the owners of the document?

2. Isn't HinduUnity website banned in India anyways?

Here is the blogspot blog about the case : http://intellibriefs...-gang-rape.html

http://www.scribd.co...gs-Indian-press

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http://www.india-forum.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1807&st=0&p=65322&%23entry65322

Traumatised gang rape victim seeks justice

The rape victim's father accuses Navsarjan Trust of politicising the
issue saying, �we only want justice. We have never used the term
Dalit.� The NGO, claiming to be one of the most effective Dalit
organisations of India, rubbishes him.

CJ: Natteri Adigal Sun, Jun 29, 2008 23:33:02 IST
Views: 1446

Gujarat News : 10 cops booked in Gujarat GUDDI, LET’S not bother about
real name, was rushed to the civil hospital in Ahmedabad on Saturday
(June 28) in unconscious condition. The 18-year-old girl had passed
out at the office premises of a Non Government Organisation (NGO)
named Navsarjan Trust. It did look like a suicide attempt but was not
confirmed.

She had been caught three days back by her hostel mate, while writing
what appeared to be a suicide note. They had just commenced their
second year of Primary Teachers’ Training (PTC) course on June 16 at
the district institute of education and training (DIET) in Patan,
Gujarat. Principal Jamnaben Taral was immediately alerted by the
friend.

Guddi’s hospitalisation is a little different from other teenager
tragedies, which keep happening in India and are forgotten soon, maybe
after a bit of ‘character assassination’. For, the Ahmedabad profit
centre, a powerful newspaper business has been front-paging news and
gossip about her for the past five months. She is featured as the
‘Patan gang rape victim’, apparently as part of its ’Save the girl
child’ campaign. The ‘public interest campaign’, creating awareness
about atrocities on women and female foetuses in India, particularly
Gujarat, has brought it a lot of visibility in international
advertising events.

On February 2, 2008, Guddi had passed out after the prayer meeting at
the institute for the first time. She was mentally disturbed and got
uncontrollably hysteric. She told her college vice-principal that she
had been sexually assaulted by her teachers repeatedly in the last six
months. Many of the close to 100 female students of the college had
parroted her allegations about sexual harassment by six male teachers
on the campus to the principal KT Poraniya. As word of the alleged
rape and molestation spread across the campus, angry students and
their families went on a rampage on February 4. The mob attacked the
accused teachers and damaged furniture.

The situation was defused by the district educational office. The
accused teachers as well as the principal, were all promptly
transferred. A magisterial enquiry was ordered. Guddi, the daughter of
landless peasant of a remote village Jetalvasna, wanted to get on with
studies, leaving the punishment of culprits to appropriate
authorities.

Keen to face life like a brave citizen, she turned down any help from
publicity-hungry good samaritans. She said, "I want to fight for
justice as a student and not as a Dalit girl. The professors have
violated me in the college and I will seek justice by remaining in the
college."

Her rationale for staying back at the hostel was: "Another girl who
was not a Dalit but poor, too, would have been victimised by my
tormentors — for, they looked for poor preys." Chief minister Narendra
Modi congratulated the teenager for showing courage and turning into a
whistle blower. He announced a compensation of Rs one lakh to secure
her future.

Courses in all DIETs went ahead without hitch and examinations were
conducted. They have all been free of incidents, despite a high-pitch
campaign to disrupt them. Guddi’s tragedy had been transformed into
charges directed against Anandiben Patel, an important deputy of the
chief minister. Revenue minister Anandiben is a renowned ex-
schoolteacher, who is recognised as the de facto head of education in
Gujarat. The enquiry was wrapped in record time under strict orders
from Modi. In the meantime, the accused teachers were arrested.
Recording of statements of the accused and the witnesses have been
completed and the trial is ready to commence on July 1.

Guddi returned to the hostel after vacation to get on with the second
year of the PTC course. She had secured distinction marks in the first
annual exam despite all the trauma, she had encountered during the
year. In the suicide note, she was writing on June 26 however, she
mentioned that after these incidents she was unhappy with her life.
The note indicated that she felt harassed at home and was often
contemplating suicide. It read: "Nobody, not my parents, not my
teachers, nor friends, none would be responsible for my actions," in
case she did commit suicide.

Her father was summoned and Guddi was handed over to him. The next
day, at home, the girl blew her top again when her father broke her
cellular phone in a fit of rage. She walked out in a huff to reach
Visnagar, about 20km away, and sought refuge at the police station.
She was taken to the chief judicial magistrate at Mehsana when she
told them that she doesn’t want to stay with her father any longer. JK
Rathod, Inspector, Visnagar police station, said, "she has been very
clear in her choice. Since the very beginning, she wanted to be in the
custody of NGOs." The CJM ordered that she be sent to the custody of
Navsarjan for three days.

It was when the parents of Guddi met her at Navsarjan office that she
fainted, like she had done in February after prayer meeting. She had
met her parents at the office, agreeing to do so after initial
reluctance. According to executive director Manjula Pradip of
Navsarjan Trust, they were persuading her to stay at home, rather than
at the hostel, during the time when the court will take up her
deposition.

Guddi’s father has accused the NGO of politicising the issue. The poor
peasant told mediapersons, "we want justice for our daughter, but the
NGO has other axes to grind." He added: "Humne kabhi Dalit shabd ka
upyog nahi kiya (we have never used the term Dalit)." Manjula on the
other hand, wants to provide professional counsellors to let her
overcome the trauma, along with supporting her legal battle. She
dismissed the relatives’ allegations, "he can say what he wants, we
are not worried about that. "

What made the ‘gang rape victim’ want to dump her parents and go to
the NGO now, particularly when she had repeatedly spurned NGOs and
rejected being branded as ‘Dalit’ in the past? How could the NGO so
confidently rubbish the parents’ allegations? Has the ‘gang rape
victim’ succumbed to the forces preying upon her tragedy to make
political capital?

Navsarjan Trust claims to be one of the most effective Dalit
organisations of India, widely respected locally, state-wide,
nationally, and internationally and feared by those who work against
equality. It also stakes the claim for its executive director as being
one of India’s foremost Dalit woman leaders!

It does smack of a Mayawati-wannabe, forging an alliance with the
foremost secular party of India in Gujarat. Significantly, the
Congress is widely suspected to be behind the newspaper’s unabashed,
albeit unsuccessful so far, smear campaign against the Gujarat
government. "Does the latest alliance signify the opening of another
front in the battle aimed at delivering the people of Gujarat and
India from the sinister clutches of Narendra Modi?"

http://www.merinews.com/article/traumatised-gang-rape-victim-seeks-justice/136706.shtml

Presidential Guard Gang Rape Rattles India’s Military
Syed Asdar Ali & Agencies

NEW DELHI, 11 October 2003 — The military, stung by the alleged rape
of a teenage student by four presidential guards, was planning
yesterday a revamp of the elite unit that has protected the country’s
first citizen for 53 years.

Police have arrested four soldiers of the Presidential Body Guard
(PBG) on charges of raping the girl Monday in a park two kilometers
from the official home of President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.

Kalam and his presidential palace reacted strongly to the alleged
assault, which occurred while Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama
was addressing his followers in the same Buddha Jayanti Park.

“The president has expressed serious concern over the incident and has
asked for tough measures to be taken to ensure that such incidents do
not recur.

“What has been committed is a terrible crime and the guilty shall be
given appropriate punishment,” the palace said, adding that Kalam, the
supreme commander of the Indian armed forces, has called for a
military probe. The Defense Ministry was stunned by the allegations
involving the ceremonial unit, raised in 1773 by then English Viceroy
Warren Hastings when India was a British colony.

“The mood is very bad. The sword can fall on many,” a source said of
reports that the army was planning a revamp of the lance-carrying PBG
which has been protecting presidents since the country became a
republic in 1950.

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Gangrape case registered against SHO, 4 others in Delhi
PTI, Jun 24, 2009, 04.29am IST

NEW DELHI: A case of gangrape was filed against an SHO and four
policemen in the capital after a woman claimed that she was sexually
assaulted inside a police station in south-west Delhi, which led to
angry protests in the area. ( Watch )

The woman alleged that she was taken to the Inderpuri police station
on Monday by two policemen to enquire about her husband, who the
police said was a "local criminal involved in betting".

"They put me inside a lock up and started hurling abuses and thrashed
me. Then they took me upstairs where the SHO and four other uniformed
men raped me. I can recognise them by face," the woman told
reporters.

The woman's claims triggered protests in the area, where she resides,
with a large crowd attacking and ransacking the police station.

The police said it had registered a case of gangrape against the five
policemen after recording her statement late on Monday.

"We have registered a case of gangrape against the five policemen
after recording the statement of the victim," Delhi Police spokesman
Rajan Bhagat said.

Sources in the police said a test identification parade would be
conducted to identify the four personnel of the force.

The police, which handed over the investigation to the Delhi crime
branch, shifted Station House Officer Pradeep Kumar to Police Lines to
ensure "free and fair probe".

Meanwhile, the Delhi government also directed the women's commission
to probe the matter.

Chief minister Sheila Dikshit, who directed the Delhi Women's
Commission to probe the allegations, said it was shameful if such an
incident had happened.

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