Delhi Case Follow-up thread

[Sachin]

Many in DP can only show force to weak people , women and children.

+1 to that. Infact this I feel is common all across the states where law and order machinery is in a bad shape. Many of these states too are in a big mess, the political climate offers no change and the police also become the most pettiest of the goons. Not going on another North v/s South Debate. I personally feel that policing in Southern states (and Maharashtra) are much much better than what exists in Northern parts (the UP,Bihar, Jharkhand, W.B etc. etc.).

Cruel Intentions

What caught my eye is that the "100% literate state" is pretty much close to Delhi (with Rajasthan taking the second prize). Off late there has been numerous cases of child molestations, with the perpetrators being close relatives of the victim. In Kerala Child Care groups now actively focus on school kids. Special interviews for school kids are now being done by experienced child psychologists. And soon the kids start speaking out. The good thing I see is that police actively register a complaint and start the investigations and in majority of the cases arrested the accused.

^^ The warped sense of entitlement in the Delhi powerbroking elites...

Tend to agree with you. I dont think any normal person, who does not have clout with politicians, babus and other Dilli-Billis can have a relaxed life out there. BTW I remember reading that there was a caption contest to promote tourism in Delhi. A chap who came up with Dildaar Dilli/Delhi got the price. I dont know how many Indian would agree with Delhi being Dildaar.

[chaanakya]

DP chief wont quit

Earlier, asked if he would quit, Kumar shot back: "For any misreporting that you do, does your editor resign?


"If you do wrong reporting, does your editor resign? This is my counter question."

The Press Council can get the editor to resign but not this top bully.
The case here is failure of the DP to register the case and offering reverse hush up money.
And those people are reporting to him. What has he done?

Off course he won't quit. Remember he is a civil servant working for the President. And unitl he gets kicked out he will clingon. And as long as INC is the party in power thru its allies there wont be a recommnedation to kick him out for failure of law and order. The current situation os due to the DP not willing oregister the gang rape case and offering revers bribe to hush up the case to the poo parents.
That is in his authority. What has he done to address the criminal negligence of his underlings/minions? Nothing. He sets the tone of his force. And its bad.


And he knows nothing about law and order for he is the top Bully in Delhi Bullice.

Finally, Top Dog of Delhi Bullice is asked to proceed on Leave. Many others transferred. Belated action and inadequate.
Should have been asked to go on compulsory retirement if not dismissed outright.

Rumor not yet confirmed though
http://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india/- ... 22391.html

New Delhi, Apr 29: Delhi Police today refuted reports that Commissioner Neeraj Kumar has been asked to go on leave by the Union Home Ministry following criticism over the handling of law and order situation in the capital.
There was no such order from the Ministry asking the Commissioner to go on leave, Delhi Police spokesperson Rajan Bhagat said.

Kumar drew flak following the rape of a five-year-old girl in east Delhi, with protesters demanding his removal from

He has two months left. Retires on 30th June 2013

[chaanakya]

DCP of East Delhi, where 5-year-old was raped, shifted

Monday, Apr 29, 2013, 19:04 IST | Place: New Delhi | Agency: PTI

Prabhakar has been replaced by Ajay Kumar, an IPS officer of 2001 batch who was handling the PM Security.

The Deputy Commissioner of Police of East Delhi, where the rape of a five-year-old girl had taken place, was shifted in a reshuffle of middle-level officers of Delhi Police.

Prabhakar, a 2003-batch IPS officer who was Deputy Commissioner of Police (East), was transfered to Prime Minister's Security in the same rank, a senior police official said.

Prabhakar had headed the district where the rape of the five-year-old girl in Gandhinagar led to protests in the capital. It was alleged the local police did not investigate the kidnapping and subsequent rape of the girl properly. A Vigilance Enquiry had indicted the Station House Officer of Gandhi nagar Police for dereliction of duty.

Prabhakar has been replaced by Ajay Kumar, an IPS officer of 2001 batch who was handling the PM Security.

Chhaya Sharma, a 1999-batch officer who was heading South Delhi district as its Deputy Commissioner of Police, was transfered to Mizoram. DCP (Outer) B S Jaiswal, a 2001 batch officer, replaces her. Sharma had headed the South district when the gangrape of a 23-year-old woman in a moving bus on December 16 last year, took place.

A senior police official said the transfer of Prabhakar came against the backdrop of the rape incident and it was "obvious".

On Sharma's transfer, the official said AGMU cadre officers have to serve outside Delhi also and her posting to Mizoram was due.

[ramana]

The senior Plocie offcial could be taking credit where it not due. Isnt it a fact that CM Of West bengal was attacked in Delhi and the MHA's residence was attacked by amob despite the DP's finest guarding them?

Also it speaks volumes that a failed DCP is given charge of PM's security!!!

[ramana]

Not the DGR per se but still awareness article

Up by 158% this year, msot cultprits known to the victims

Neighbours, friends and lovers have emerged as the main culprits in rape cases that have taken across Delhi till April 15 this year.

Of the 463 rape cases reported this year, 178 were committed by either friends or lovers. Neighbours of victims were involved in 115 cases.

The year has also seen a surge in crime against women. There has been a 158% increase in cases of rape while molestation incidents have witnessed a three-fold rise. {Look at the grapoh and the text. Its 600% ie six fold!} Cases of "eve-teasing" have increased four times {See the above italics}.

{Looks like India has been taken over by the Kauravas and their kin}

According to statistics released by Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar on Monday, the city reported 463 cases of rape this year till April 15 as against 179 in the same period last year.

Molestation cases rose by 600 per cent this year - from 139 to 973 cases. "Eve-teasing" cases increased by 783.67 per cent - from 49 to 433



Kumar attributed the rise to better registration of cases. "This shows that the earlier tendency of dissuading women complainants has dramatically changed post December 16 (gang rape)," he said.

"Is it humanely possible for the police to prevent a case like this (the rape of five-year-old girl) when somebody lures a girl into a room (and rape her). Rapes are opportunistic crimes confined to private space," he added.

{Wrong.Prompt Delhi Police action deters would be rapists. Right now under Neeraj Kumar its always dheeraj(later) for the rape victims and in favor of the rapists. Amd surprised he has the audacity to come and talk about rape statistsics especially when it is so bad!}

An analysis by the police suggests that in 15 cases, the accused were employers or co-workers, family members in 12 cases, fathers in 10 and step fathers in two cases, husbands and ex-husbands in nine. In nine cases, brothers-in-law were involved while fathers-in-law were culprits in two cases.

Eight landlords, three tenants, five cousins, three teachers, two doctors and a tantric were also found involved.

According to the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB), in 94% of the rape cases across the country, the offenders were known to the victims. 10.6% rape victims were under 14 years, while 19% were teenagers.

[ramana]

PTI reports:

DCPs transfers not linked to rape incidents:Delhi Police

New Delhi: Delhi Police on Tuesday refuted suggestions that the transfer of its two Deputy Commissioners were connected with the recent rape incidents in the national capital, saying such reports cast "unwarranted aspersions" on their reputation.

{Their reputations are made or unmade based on their actions or inactions during the post incident period: Beating up protestors and registering false cases of policeman dying due to protestors, when the person died from heart attack.}


DCP (South) Chhaya Sharma was on Monday transferred to Mizoram and DCP (East) Prabhakar to Prime Minister's Security Wing. Delhi Police spokesperson Rajan Bhagat said Sharma's transfer has been linked with the gangrape of a young girl in a moving bus on December 16, 2012 and it is "factually incorrect".

He said Sharma was actually transfered to Mizoram in November 2011, almost one year prior to the incident of bus gangrape, but on administrative grounds the Union Home Ministry had issued a partial modification of their earlier order allowing her to continue in Delhi till December, 2012.

"It is also significant that not only did the officer crack the case in no time but filed a charge sheet in the case and has pursued the trial to an advanced stage successfully," Bhagat said.

He said the Ministry was keen to retain her in Delhi for the next four months as it wanted her presence during the trial in the December 16 gangrape case. However, he said, Sharma requested for relieving her earlier. She told the Ministry that a delay would hamper the education of her children as it would be difficult for getting admission for them in Mizoram later.

The Ministry agreed to her request, Bhagat said. "She also cracked the Deepak Bhardwaj case in record time. It is distressing to note that the media has linked her relieving order issued one year prior to the incident of December 16 gangrape to tarnish her reputation," he said.

"Even the transfer of Prabhakar was purely routine in nature as the officer had completed his normal tenure," Bhagat said. Prabhakar's transfer came days after the rape of a five-year-old girl in east Delhi's Gandhi Nagar which triggered widespread protests.

It would make sense but for the fact that a senior officer of 2001 batch is being sent to replace Mr. Prabhakar. The protests were because the policeman under Mr Prabhakar offered the rape victim's father money to not register the case. Till now that policeman is not suspended. Was he following orders?

[ramana]

Hindu asks:

Is Hyderabad going Delhi way?

The spate of sexual attacks against women continued in the State capital with four instances of rapes being reported on Wednesday. While a four-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by a minor boy in Miyapur, an eight-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her step father in Rajendranagar. The other two heinous crimes were reported from Kushaiguda and Alwal localities. In Kushaiguda, a daily wager was gang-raped and in Alwal a mentally challenged woman was sexually assaulted by one person, while another molested a hapless woman.

The chilling incidents that left the police officials dumbfounded, spurred them into forming special police teams to nab the culprits. In the Alwal incident, the mentally challenged woman aged around 26 years was sleeping on the verandah of her house in BJR Nagar when her neighbour Nagaraju allegedly woke her up on Tuesday night. He took her to a secluded place in the locality saying he wanted to talk to her. Later he raped her and fled. In Kushaiguda, a casual labourer aged 20 years was gangraped two days ago and the matter was reported to the police on Wednesday. The rapists picked up the woman from a labour adda on the pretext of providing her some work on daily wage. In the third incident reported from Miyapur, a junior intermediate student living in a roadside hut at Miyapur sexually assaulted a four-year-old girl of the same locality, police said. The 17-year-old boy and the victim live in huts on the Hi-Tec City-Madhapur stretch. The girl was alone after her father went to work, when the boy took her to his hut offering snacks and violated her, the Kukatpally ACP M. Malla Reddy said. Police took the boy into custody after the girl’s father lodged a complaint.

The victim was sent for medical examination.

In yet another rape case, an inebriated man raped his step-daughter in Rajendranagar on Tuesday night. The victim’s mother Harun, works as a cleaner in a hotel and slept at her work place as she was tired. Her husband Feroz who was reported to be inebriated violated the girl in the house. On returning home on Wednesday morning, the woman learnt about the sexual assault on her daughter and complained to the police.

Special teams were formed to identify the rapists but the investigators were clueless.

[chaanakya]

Verdict on Nirbhaya case expected by May end, Delhi Police commissioner says

IANS | May 5, 2013, 04.59 PM IST


NEW DELHI: With the trial in the Delhi gang rape case "almost 90 percent complete", the court verdict is expected to come by the end of May, Delhi Police commissioner Neeraj Kumar said.

In an interview to a news channel, Neeraj Kumar said: "The trial of December 16 (2012) case is almost 90 per cent complete and judgment is expected by the end of May."

On December 16, 2012, a 23-year-old woman was brutally raped and tortured by a gang of six people on a moving bus. She died a few days later of grievous injuries.

The male friend of the victim, who too was attacked and severely injured, in an interview had criticised the police for their "inaction" in the case.

The police commissioner dismissed allegations that policemen had offered a bribe of Rs 2,000 to the parents of a five-year-old-girl in east Delhi, another rape victim in the city, in April to hush up the matter.

"A report was promptly registered by the women help desk after which a case was lodged. I admit the follow-up action was not up to the mark for which we suspended the SHO (station house officer) and IO (investigative officer) in the case," he said.

There was no question of hushing up the case as NGOs were informed about the incident and media was also present there, he added.

Speaking of capital punishment for rapists, Neeraj Kumar said: "Many criminals have been hanged for murders and terrorism but has this brought an end to such crimes? The law punishes criminals but if we start assuming that this will stop crimes, this will not be correct."

The commissioner again said that his stepping down would not serve any purpose.

"I am not among those who run away. I am the leader of the force and till the time the government has trust in me, I shall continue to lead," he said.

According to Neeraj Kumar, in the wake of the recent crimes against women, the police have taken a slew of measures to make women feel safe in the capital.

"One such step is setting up of women help desks at police stations which are functional round the clock where females can register their complaints," he said.

"There is a 158 percent increase in rape case registration, 600 percent in molestation cases and 700 percent in eve-teasing cases. These are not indicative of a rise in crimes but it shows women are now confident about going to police stations where a woman officer hears them and registers their complaints."

No Comment.

[ramana]

How is the Police Commissioner talking about the timeline for a judicial process? Isnt that out of his area of responsibility?

I suggest he suspends himslef for failing in general morale of Delhi Police.

[chaanakya]

As a Prosecutor/investigating Agency it is responsibility of DP to ensure trial proceeds without much adjournments which is the main reason for delays. Once both parties are heard, it is for the Judicial Magistrate to pronounce Judgement. Till such time it is for Prosecutor to move trial forward. That way he can say at what stage Trial is and when he expects Judgement.

[IndraD]

Kanda-Geetika case turns out to be a major embarassment for Delhi police as judger orders charges of rape and un natural sex against Geetika

"Not only the investigation of the case has been tainted and stinking, the manner in which the confession of the other co-accused Chanshivroop was recorded and the fact that he ran away to the US on police bail and the investigating agency is not making any serious effort to extradite him suggest the inference that the accused Kanda is still influencing the criminal justice administration by employing various indirect means," the judge said.

Since Kanda has now been indicted for sexual offences, the case will be tried by a fast-track court dealing exclusively with such cases. The court has fixed the matter for May 27 for recording of prosecution evidence.

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/geet ... 70478.html

[chaanakya]

Delhi gangrape file goes missing

Gives rise to suspicion that Bus belonged to some Neta and important one at that. Raman garu hinted this at tha time and now it seems more likely.

"I am shocked to know that the file pertaining to the private bus in which the 23-year-old girl was gangraped has gone missing as reported in a section of media. Unfortunately, there hardly seems to be any effort on the part of the Delhi government to locate the file," Delhi BJP president Vijay Goel said.

He accused the transport department of stonewalling attempts of investigators to get information required from the department for a thorough investigation into the case.

"Why Delhi government is stalling the attempt to investigate the record of this bus? Who is trying to save the culprits in this high profile case and why the Transport Minister and the Chief Minister have not done anything in this matter so far? People of Delhi want answers of these questions," Goel said.

"If the Delhi government can adopt such callous attitude in such a high profile case which shook the whole nation, one can imagine what must have been happening to common citizens in the city," he said.

Goel alleged that the bus in which the girl was gangraped was challaned by police several times and it should not have been allowed to run by the Transport department.

"The corruption in this government provided 'wheels' for this bus. And had the file of this bus been located, it would have clearly exposed the Transport department's blatant corruption which cannot exist without patronisation from the top political executives," he said.

"It is evident that the file pertaining to this bus will raise very uncomfortable questions for the Delhi government and that is why it has suddenly gone missing," Goel said.
- See more at: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/delhi ... TT0NM.dpuf

[RamaY]

SwamyG garu thinks like Sonia Gandhi and PranabM

Finally the queen spoke on the rape cases and sermons that the civil society is at fault. Taxes are meant for Queen's personal use.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city ... 057487.cms

NEW DELHI: Unveiling the plaque of the new girls' hostel of Jamia Millia Islamia, UPA chairperson and Congress president Sonia Gandhi expressed her concern over violence against women and urged the civil society to be proactive in creating a safe environment for them.

I presume now civil society can kill the people who rob them, I mean their women?

Pranabda told us longtime that moral challenges are not part of the contract between the soceity and the citizenry (I posted this indian interests)
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/1834540/r ... -mukherjee

Underscoring the need for society to introspect and find ways to prevent crimes against women, President Pranab Mukherjee today exhorted universities to meet the requirements of moral challenges faced by society.

[Brad Goodman]

Delhi gang-rape accused Vinay Sharma critical after jail attack: Lawyer

[ramana]

Looks like INC is dispensing quick justice without the fast track trial. At this rate all the accused will be murdered and the trial voided.

[Lilo]

Delhi gangrape file goes missing

Gives rise to suspicion that Bus belonged to some Neta and important one at that. Raman garu hinted this at tha time and now it seems more likely.

^^

Delhi gang-rape accused Vinay Sharma critical after jail attack: Lawyer
NEW DELHI: A defendant on trial over the fatal gang-rape in New Delhi last December is critically ill after being attacked in prison, his lawyer said on Wednesday, weeks after the main accused Ram Singh died in the same jail.

Vinay Sharma was rushed to the state-run Lok Nayak Hospital in New Delhi on Tuesday with chest injuries after he was assaulted in Tihar Jail, lawyer AP Singh told AFP, also alleging that his client's food had been poisoned.

"He was vomiting blood and running a very high fever. He was also suffering from chest pains. He is in a very critical condition," Singh said.

The chest pains came after Sharma, 20, was "beaten up and thrashed" by fellow inmates at the maximum-security jail, the lawyer added.

He said the vomiting had been caused by the "slow poisoning" of his food over a period of several weeks.

"He was being given food mixed with poison since the start of this month.

"He was first admitted to the clinic inside the jail but was later moved to a city hospital. He was shifted again to another hospital when his condition worsened" on Tuesday, Singh said.

The head of the hospital refused to comment on the case, while there was no immediate reaction from authorities at Tihar.

One of Sharma's co-defendants, bus driver Ram Singh, was found hanging in his cell under mysterious circumstances in the same prison in March. Although an inquest ruled he had committed suicide his lawyers allege that he was murdered.

Sharma is one of four adults still on trial for the murder and gang-rape of a 23-year-old student who was attacked on a bus on December 16.

The victim died of her injuries in a Singapore hospital 13 days later.

A fifth defendant, who is aged 17, is being tried in a juvenile court.

The defendants have all entered not-guilty pleas and their lawyers have accused police of torturing the defendants to obtain confessions.

Prosecutors say they have DNA evidence linking the defendants to the attack in which the student and a male companion were assaulted on a bus as it was driven around the city, having been picked up after a trip to the cinema.

The case led to months of soul-searching over widespread sexual crime in India, and resulted in tougher laws to punish rapists.

Singh said the judge hearing the case at a special fast-track court in the city had Tuesday dismissed his plea that Sharma be granted bail on "humanitarian grounds".

"The judge dismissed the bail application but he has allowed my client's family to visit him," Singh said.

Sharma, who earned 100 dollars a month as a helper at a gym prior to his arrest, has claimed that he was attending a musical function with two of his friends when the gang-rape took place.

The family of the 23-year-old victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has demanded the death penalty for all the accused.

^^ Fed Slow Poison for months, now dying after being brutally attacked and while vomiting blood .

Just to prevent them from spilling beans on some Neta (under whose direction and patronage much past crime by them would never see the light of the day) the rapists are being sodomized and accidented one by one - under the watchful eye of the Delhi Police none the less.

Delhi Police it seems, are now good only for one thing - dressing up in their parade colours and practicing for the "march past" for the whole year so as to win the "Best Marching Contingent" award in the Republic day as is the norm .


Where is the su motu Cognizance by the Right Honorable Supreme Court?
Why is that the opposition never seems to be asking the right questions ?
Why is the "Independent" Press never seen digging deeper ?
Where are the self appointed "keepers of the Nation's Conscience" - the assorted NGOs ?

Ok

If one assumes that on-trial prisoners are supposed to be treated like animals ...
Where is PETA or Maneka Gandhi atleast?

Satyameva Jayate ?
Really ?

[chaanakya]

After fanfare, Nirbhaya fund going nowhere

NEW DELHI: Despite its recent post-Nirbhaya commitment to women's empowerment, plans for the Rs 1,000 crore fund set aside in memory of the Delhi gang rape victim is caught in bureaucratic red tape.

Five months after the violent December 16 crime outraged the country, there is no clarity on which of the ministries — finance, home and women and child development (WCD) — should be given the administrative charge of the fund.

The only headway since the ghastly incident occurred has been setting up of a taskforce to create an institutional mechanism for the fund announced in the Union budget as a measure for women's empowerment.

"The taskforce has been set up but there is no decision on who will spend the fund. Reports and recommendations can be prepared but there must be political will to execute good intentions,'' a source said.

According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), the number of rape cases registered in India increased by 873.3 % — from 2,487 in 1971 to 24,206 in 2011 — with Madhya Pradesh (3,406) reporting the highest incidence of the crime. MP was followed by West Bengal (2,363), Uttar Pradesh (2,042), Rajasthan (1,800), Maharashtra (1,701), Assam (1,700) and Andhra Pradesh (1,442).

Despite increased pressure on police in the wake of public demonstrations and pressure exerted by the political executive, there has not been much let up in crimes against women with reports of cases of harassment, rape and murder pouring in from all parts of the country.

The incidents only serve to underline that the need for the fund aimed at improving safety and empowering women is urgently needed. The corpus, although not very large, was seen as a welcome step to assist women in distress and fund initiatives that improve gender parity.

The tardy pace of progress in activating the fund and even deciding who will administer it is surprising as Congress president Sonia Gandhi herself has sought to push the government to act speedily having told a party conclave in January that the death of Nirbhaya will not go in vain.

The taskforce is to be headed by women and child development minister Krishna Tirath. Other members include Justice Leila Seth (who was part of the Justice Verma Committee that proposed tougher laws to deal with crime against women), former home secretary G K Pillai, additional solicitor general Indira Jaising and National Advisory Council (NAC) member Aruna Roy.

The committee is expected to submit its report — at best be recommendatory in nature — in a month.

The panel will be expected to make recommendations that will strengthen the criminal justice system's response to crimes against women, such as transitional housing, legal assistance, law enforcement training and hotlines. It is also likely to address vulnerable groups of women such as on college campuses and single working women.

[prahaar]

I was trying to find out the definition of rape in India, because to my surprise I have found that in Finland (for example), there is a distinction between "forced sexual intercourse" and rape. The former does not carry any unconditional imprisonment (this is shocking), the laws are similarly lax when it comes to sexual offenses against minors, just came to know of a case where a teacher raped 3 under age girls but has received only a two year sentence (that that too is a suspended sentence which will start in next six months). Please see a related article for reference http://yle.fi/uutiset/finland_to_toughe ... on/6649121 .

Are laws in India similarly lax?

[Prem]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/11/world ... .html?_r=0

India Scrambles to Reassure Tourists Shaken by Recent Attacks on Women

MUMBAI, India — Dheeraj Dixit used to make $2 a day snapping photographs of the tourists milling around the Gateway of India, the imposing monument at the southern tip of Mumbai. But a recent series of well-publicized attacks on women in India, and the international outcry over them, have Mr. Dixit worried.India’s image is spoiled when incidents like this happen,” Mr. Dixit, 38, said ruefully while hustling for customers on a recent evening. “It’s unfortunate, and it isn’t good for business.” Visits to India by female tourists dropped 35 percent in the first three months of this year compared with the same period last year, according to the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India. That three-month period came after the fatal gang rape of a 23-year-old student in New Delhi in December, which brought protesters to the streets and shined a spotlight on the harassment and intimidation women face every day in India. Although the per capita rate of rapes reported to the police in India is below that of many developed nations, some experts believe that many sexual attacks go unreported and that the actual number is far higher. The public outrage over the December attack led to the passage of a new sexual offense law in March that imposes stronger penalties for violence against women and criminalizes actions like stalking and voyeurism.

But attacks on women have continued with an alarming regularity. While Indian women are most often the targets, foreign tourists have been victims as well. A 30-year-old American woman reported being gang-raped in a northern resort town last week. She picked three men out of a lineup, and on Friday the accused were presented before a magistrate and sent to judicial custody for 14 days. With the most recent gang rape in Delhi on the forefront of my mind, I travel to India with more anxiety than I’m used to when traveling to a foreign country,” said Corinne Aparis, 24, of San Francisco, who is currently in the western Indian city of Udaipur as an international program coordinator with the Foundation for Sustainable Development. “It scares me to think that there’s that type of deep hatred toward women — that just being a woman is enough of a target and reason for some men to inflict such violence on me.” India can ill afford to lose the foreign currency that tourists inject into the economy. Economic growth has slipped to 5 percent in 2012 from more than 9 percent annually in 2010, and the government needs foreign currency to offset huge payments for imported oil and coal, which cannot be paid in rupees. A total of 6.4 million foreign tourists traveled to India last year, a smaller number than in some much smaller countries, like France, or even in cities like New York. But such visitors make an essential contribution to the country’s flagging economy, and are vital to the survival of millions of one-man operators like Mr. Dixit. Tourism over all accounts for 6 percent of India’s gross domestic product and is responsible for about 10 percent of organized employment in the country, or some 20 million jobs. An estimated 60 million to 70 million more people, like Mr. Dixit, make their living off foreigners in an “unorganized” way. Foreign tourism specifically contributes about $18 billion, or approximately 20 percent of India’s current account deficit, according to official figures. When I said I was traveling to India, my friends and family asked me to be careful and were more worried about me than if I was traveling to any other foreign country,” said Nadine Herwiejer, 26, while sitting in the shade of a tree at the Gateway of India. Ms. Herwiejer, from Foorburg in the Netherlands, said that she was “traveling in a group and would not feel comfortable traveling alone in India because of safety reasons.” In April, the Tourism Ministry asked all state governments to create police forces just for tourist spots. Such forces are already present in the states of Goa, Rajasthan, and Jammu and Kashmir, where they wear special armbands to identify themselves.

The Tourism Ministry is also setting up a multilingual toll-free help line that will be answered by women and act as a concierge service, but will also provide telephone numbers for all the police stations in India, officials said.

[Prasad]

Re ^^, the damage is already done. And its pretty huge. Lots of women just do not want to take the chance when they can do a similar trip to europe or china or SE asia and not worry as much about their life/dignity.

[ramana]

Month of May has come and gone for the verdict of the fast as molasses in winter track court.

By delaying justice the court and the police are sending the wrong message. Maybe its the correct one in their point of view.

[Pranav]

Another case -

Woman gang raped, two held
HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times New Delhi, June 19, 2013

A 20-year-old woman, who had come to Delhi from Bihar with her husband to earn a living on Tuesday, was confined in a house in northeast Delhi’s Joharipur near Gokulpuri and allegedy gang raped by two men.

A complaint by the woman said the men, who had promised to provide them shelter, raped her in front of her husband. They later allegedly forced them to leave the city.

The police registered a case of gang rape and illegal confinement at the Gokulpuri police station and arrested Digamber and Ravi, both residents of Joharipur. Police said the victims were confined at Digamber’s house.

A senior police officer said the matter came to light when the couple, while on their way towards the Anand Vihar railway station, narrated the matter to the auto-rickshaw driver, who happened to be a member of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).

“The auto rickshaw driver informed other members of his party and took the victims to the Gokulpuri police station. Minutes after their arrival, several AAP members gathered at the police station and demanded police action. We registered a case after medical examination of the woman confirmed rape,” said a senior police officer.

According to the officer, AAP members held a protest at the police station when their demand to provide them a copy of the FIR was not met. Police said the protesters damaged some public property at the police station and they had to use batons to control the situation.

A senior AAP member on the other hand rejected the allegations of rioting.

AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal wrote on his Twitter account that 11 boys and seven girls from the party were formally arrested.

Sanjay Beniwal, joint CP (southeastern range), said they arrested 11 boys and four girls under the charges of rioting and obstructing public servants from performing their duty.

“The newly-married couple came to Delhi on Tuesday evening. They were looking for shelter when the accused offered their help in getting an accommodation. They kept them in a room and raped the woman,” the senior officer added.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-new ... 79193.aspx

[ramana]

I wonder what inhibits the Delhi Court system from dispensing jsuticce even in a fast track court? Is the judge that unmindful of time? First he delayed starting the case due to a death in his own family. Unfortunate but Time moves on. Now its way past May which was the announced/expected judgement day. So when does he expect to come to a conclusion on this case?

And what about the juvenile offender who has CJI Jabba the Hutt's belssings due to whatever reasons?

[Prasad]

In New Delhi, a help line for women is flooded with calls

We have a long way to go to cure our society of these ills.

[ramana]

Unfortunately INC govt in Delhi is fostering a climate for rape by its inaction.
There wont be any progress until it goes.

Two women raped in moving car in Gurgaon near Delhi

Incidentally Gurgoan is named after Mahabharata fame Guru Drona.

[Prem]

Delhi rape: Trial of 17-year-old suspect concludes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-23193394

The trial of a 17-year-old, accused in last December's fatal gang rape of a woman on a bus in Delhi, has concluded.The Juvenile Justice Board will give its verdict on 11 July. The boy was charged with rape, murder and other crimes, including kidnapping.If convicted, he faces a maximum of three years in a reform facility.
He has denied the charges - as have four other suspects on trial at a specially convened fast-track court. They face the death penalty.A sixth suspect was found dead in jail. Prison officials said they believed he hanged himself. Defence lawyers and his family allege he was murdered.The brutal assault shocked India and sparked a debate over the treatment of women in the country.The victim, a physiotherapy student who cannot be named in India for legal reasons, and a male friend were attacked on a bus on 16 December.Police said the assailants beat both of them, and then raped the woman. She suffered massive internal injuries and died nearly two weeks later.

[ramana]

Four related updates.

Investigating Officer denies cooking up evidence

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"It is wrong to suggest that all the accused persons were falsely implicated in the case," the IO, who had initially probed the case, told additional sessions judge Yogesh Khanna.

She refuted the allegation that accused Vinay Sharma was a juvenile at the time of the incident or that he had shown her clippings of a function which he attended on December 16, 2012 night, when the gang rape took place.


The officer also denied the allegation that accused Akshay Singh was falsely implicated in the case as he was not present when the crime took place.

Bus Owner: Accused had custody of bus on the day and threafter

...
The owner of the bus in which a 23-year-old girl was gangraped in New Delhi on December 16 last year, deposed as a prosecution witness on Thursday in a Delhi court and said that the vehicle was in continuous custody of its driver Ram Singh on the day of the incident and the following day as well.



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Moment of truth for the accused

The trial in the December 16 gang rape case has entered a crucial phase with the special judge on Wednesday set to confront each of the four accused with the evidence that has come on record against them.
"The judge will ask each of the four accused questions on the basis of statements made by the witnesses and the material evidence before him. For the first time, the accused will also get a chance to say whatever they want to in their defence," prosecution sources said.

After this, the accused will be allowed to produce witnesses in their support. Recording of prosecution evidence ended on Monday with the completion of cross examination of the investigating officer. The last and 82nd witness was a carpenter whom the accused had assaulted and robbed in the bus before the gang rape victim and her male friend boarded it.

Boosting the prosecution case, all the witnesses have stood by their earlier statement, indicting all the four accused.

Asked when the keenly-awaited verdict will be out, prosecution sources said: "Now it should not take too long. Primary burden is of the prosecution. We finished examination of all 82 witnesses in 85 days. Now it is up to the defence."

The prosecution has demanded death sentence for the four accused- Mukesh, Vinay, Pawan and Akshay. Prime accused Ram Singh had committed suicide by hanging himself in Tihar jail on March 11 and the case against him abated.

The fifth accused is a minor against whom a juvenile justice board completed the trial and fixed the case for pronouncement of verdict on July 11. The maximum punishment he can be given, as per law, is a three-year confinement at a reformatory home.

Police have claimed DNA report established the involvement of all the accused in the crime. However, lawyers for the accused claimed the reports were "fabricated" and that their clients have been framed.

The key witnesses who deposed were the male friend of the victim, her mother, the doctors who treated her at Safdarjung Hospital and Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore, investigating officer and DNA experts.

Case against the'minor' concludes

[ramana]

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes ... -woman-cop

Woman sub-inspector harassed, beaten up in south Delhi
Raj Shekhar, TNN Jul 4, 2013, 03.58AM IST

NEW DELHI: Forget ordinary citizens, even cops are not safe from harassment on Delhi's streets.


A Delhi Police sub-inspector was molested and thrashed in full public view by half a dozen men on Tuesday night in Sangam Vihar, south Delhi, after she objected to lewd comments passed by two men on a bike. The accused hit the woman cop with sticks and broke her cellphone so that she could not call for help.

She was later taken to Batra Hospital. The police have arrested three men and launched a manhunt for the remaining three.

A case of attempt to commit culpable homicide (308), molestation (354) and 509 (outraging a woman's modesty) has been registered against the accused, identified as Naveen Kumar, Rohit and Ravi. All three are history-sheeters.

The incident took place around 9.30pm when the SI was heading home in a bus. She is posted at a south Delhi police station and lives in Sangam Vihar with her family. She was walking home after alighting from the bus when two men on a bike passed comments at her.

When she objected, they hurled abuses and misbehaved with her. The rider was later identified as Ravi, a source said.

Enraged, the SI slapped the rider and threatened to call the police, at which the hooligans took her cellphone and threw it away. The pillion rider then allegedly got off the bike and manhandled the SI even as the rider, Ravi, called in his associates.

A neighbour spotted the SI being attacked and rushed to her rescue. But even as he tried to save her, Ravi returned with his friends who were now carrying sticks. The neighbour meanwhile dialed 100 and informed the Police Control Room. He then ran to the SI's home to bring her family members.

The SI screamed for help and ran towards a paan shop, then inside a PCO booth but the assailants dragged her out and thrashed her.

By the time the PCR van arrived, only three accused could be arrested; the rest managed to flee, police said.

However, a source said that the accused were nabbed much later by a team of cops from the south Delhi police station where the woman cop works. They also reportedly "interrogated" the trio before handing them over to the Sangam Vihar police. The police have denied this though.

This is the third incident this year when a policewoman has become a victim to harassment. On January 6, a woman constable was molested in a DTC bus by a 39-year-old man in east Delhi's Jagatpuri. Three days later, again, a 25-year-old woman home guard was molested inside a low-floor DTC bus in Madhu Vihar, east Delhi.

This is what happens when chief of Delhi Police sits on his behind and beats up protesters to please his masters instead of enforcing law and order on criminals. Note the assailants were all 'history-sheeters'

Three is definitely enemy action and needs massive response.

[Jarita]

Rapist-killer gets death in 10-day trial

NEW DELHI: Ten days after being set up to try cases of sexual offences against women, a fast-track court in Dwarka, west Delhi, on Tuesday gave the death sentence to a 56-year-old farmhouse guard for raping and killing a three-year-old girl in 2011.

This was the first sentence handed out by any of the fast-track courts set up in the capital after the Nirbhaya gang-rape.

Terming the crime as "most diabolic and gruesome", additional sessions judge Virender Bhat sent the accused, Bharat Singh, to the gallows, saying the case fell in the "rarest of rare" category. The victim had died while she was being raped and her internal organs had come out, the court said.

"There is a steep rise in crimes against women, particularly minor girls. Time has come when the courts have to take a stern view of such crimes and inflict harsher punishment possible upon the perpetrators... so that a stern message is sent to society," the court said.

On April 10, 2011, the girl was returning to her house in Kapashera in southwest Delhi when she strayed towards the farmhouse. The girl was called inside by Singh, who was alone on duty, and was raped by him, the prosecution had said.

This makes me want to throw up. The horror of what that child went through and the massive evil amongst us. We have become like the Congo and the only detrance is death punishment

[Prem]

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/07/16 ... hoolgirls/

India police arrest eight in gang-rape of four schoolgirls

Indian police arrested eight suspects on Tuesday over the gang-rape of four schoolgirls abducted from their convent boarding house in the country's east, officials said.A group of men armed with knives barged into the hostel Sunday night and kidnapped the girls aged between 12 and 14, before assaulting them in a nearby forest in the tribal state of Jharkhand, a police officer said.
"We have made some arrests and we are interrogating eight persons accused in the case," police superintendent Y. S. Ramesh told AFP."These girls are shocked and frightened after the incident," he said, adding that police would press for a speedy trial if the men were charged over the crime.India faces intense scrutiny over its efforts to curb violence against women following the fatal gang-rape of a student on a bus in New Delhi last December which sparked major protests.The school principal told police that the gang locked him and other teachers inside a room at the school run by a Christian missionary in the state's Pakur district.The men then entered the dormitory and took away four girls, all belonging to a local tribal community, police said.Ramesh said medical tests on the girls had confirmed that they were raped.

[Vikas]

There is no standardization on "rarest of the rare cases'. How come the rapist and murderer of Priyadarshini Mattoo in Delhi was not handed death sentence while a ' 56-year-old farmhouse guard' is. Is it because the former was son of a senior police officer and the latter is not.
Hypocrisy of those who shall not be named at its best.
Anyways these days, rape and murder should not be rarest of the rare when you at the frequency at which they are happening.
Rape and murder should get death irrespective of rare or no rare.

[Jarita]

Just a theory about the Delhi case and the why the outcomes are so inconsistent. Perhaps the Delhi case is a tip of the iceberg of a larger issue of "trafficking" and not just one rape. I know that others have suggested that on this thread.
One of the markers that groups trying to bust trafficking rings look for is suspicious vehicles that ply along certain routes. Some of the points below point towards that
- Bus with tinted windows ambling along suspiciously. The perps were looking for victims and to say that it was for a one time rape may be inconsistent.
- Who owns that bus and do they own many other such buses?
- The spoiler for the perps was probably the girls friend and also the fact that in their fury they damaged her irrevocably which is why she was no longer saleable and hence had to be disposed.
- The perps will never divulge the chain of command because it will threaten their extended families. They are better off suffering that opening the pandoras box
- It would be useful to assess the number of missing people in Delhi (not rapes) but actually missing people both males and females.
- Someone needs to investigate the ownership of this bus company and also if there are other suspicious incidents associated with it

The whole action was premediated and planned and would have fooled many people. So how many people have been fooled into that bus before?

[ramana]

Jarita, I think you have something there. I was struck that these Delhi gang rape guys must have been repeat offenders. They are so confident of beating the rap from Deli police.

It was egregious assault. They have done it before.

[chaanakya]

Delhi gangrape: Neighbours of prime accused make shocking revelation

The neighbours of an accused in the December 16 Delhi gangrape case today claimed in a court that he was attending a music function with friends and was not in the bus in which a 23-year-old girl was gangraped by six persons.

Two of the neighbours, appearing as defence witness for accused Vinay Sharma, told Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna that "the accused is innocent as he was with us at the time of the incident".

"We, along with them (Vinay and his family members), went to the district park to attend a musical programme," the witnesses said.

This statement is similar to that given by Vinay earlier in his deposition in which he had said that he was at the district park with his family to attend a music function and was not in the bus in which the heinous crime was committed.

The witnesses, meanwhile, refuted the Delhi Police's submission that no musical function was organised in that district park on December 16.

The police submitted that as per the horticulture department of DDA, which maintains the park, no such type of activities are held there after 7 pm and nor is anyone allowed inside the park after that time.

The police also said the defence witnesses have concocted a false story at the behest of the accused and his family members and are deposing falsely in the case.

The allegation of the police was denied by the two witnesses.

Yesterday , Vinay's parents had also claimed in the court that their son was innocent and he should be acquitted.

They had refuted the police allegation that Vinay was one of the six who had also raped the girl and assaulted her male friend with an iron rod.

The prosecution has claimed Vinay was in the company of accused Ram Singh, Mukesh, Akshay Thakur, Pawan Gupta and the juvenile.

The police told the court that Vinay and others have first lured one carpenter into the bus on December 16, 2012 night and robbed him and later pushed him out of the moving vehicle.

The police also said that later they induced the girl and her friend to board the bus.

During recording of statement before the court, Vinay had claimed he was not in the bus and had gone to a music function along with co-accused Pawan Gupta.

However, accused Mukesh, during his deposition, had told the court that he was driving the bus in which the girl was sexually assaulted and her male friend was brutally attacked by his elder brother Ram Singh, Vinay, Pawan, Akshay Thakur and the juvenile.

[chaanakya]

Vinay Sharma

- here is Habal post on profile of accused. he has reportedly confessed to the crime and sought capital punishment
http://forums.bharat-rakshak.com/viewto ... 4#p1385764

-then he claims to be Juvenile
http://forums.bharat-rakshak.com/viewto ... 4#p1403644

-- this fellow shares the belongings of the victims
http://forums.bharat-rakshak.com/viewto ... 6#p1399536

An alleged confession by bus driver Ram Singh, 33, recovered from the police's file on the case, states that his brother Mukesh Singh, 28, was given one mobile phone while gym instructor Vinay Sharma, 20, was handed another, along with the male victim's shoes.

-- claimed not present at the scene of the crime

-- now produces witnesses to prove this point.

-- witnesses say there was music function in which they were present with vinay. Family says the same. Authority managing the park says no such function was organised. This can easily be corroborated.

--I think Delhi police would have dna samples linking this man to the crime. But eyewitness statement , if corroborated , would be enough to prove his part

[chaanakya]

Just to remember the deposition of Friend of rape victim
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/mukes ... d/1115346/

The complainant in the December 16 gangrape case on Monday told the fast-track court that both Mukesh Singh and Vinay Sharma were in the bus when the incident took place, contrary to the claims of the defence counsels.

During cross-examination of the victim's friend, the counsel for Mukesh contended before Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna that the two men were not involved in the crime. Lawyer V K Anand said Mukesh had not beaten the software engineer, had not robbed the two and had not raped the victim.

The counsel for co-accused Vinay claimed that he was not in the bus that night as he was attending a music function in South Delhi.

The complainant, however, refuted the claims and said he had identified the particulars of the bus as well as the accused, who were present in it that night. To the defence counsels' suggestion that normally, people do not note the colours of the buses or the words written on them, the engineer replied, "I had noticed it was a white bus with the word Yadav written on it."

"It is wrong to suggest that accused Mukesh was not sitting on the driver's seat when I entered the bus. I had already identified the accused who was sitting on the driver's seat at the time of my entering the bus. It is also wrong to suggest that accused Vinay was not present inside the bus at the time of the incident," the witness deposed before the court.

[chaanakya]

And to recapitualate his confession before Judicial magistrate and not before the Police

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/2-del ... -/1047693/

Two of the four men arrested for the gangrape and torture of a 23-year-old woman on a school bus as it moved through a busy south Delhi stretch last Sunday admitted in court today that they had committed a "horrible crime" and one asked to be hanged.

A search is on for a fifth accused who is said to have fled to Bihar and at least one person has been detained for questioning.

"Mujhe phaansi de do (hang me)," Vinay Sharma, a 20-year-old who works as an assistant gym instructor, told a Saket court. "I admit that I have done a horrible crime but I did not do anything to her." Vinay claimed he did not rape the woman but beat up her friend.

[chaanakya]

Initially this wretched soul wanted to become state witness and refused to take legal services.

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/two-g ... t/1055526/

Two of the six accused in the Delhi gangrape case on Sunday reportedly told a court that they want to become witnesses on behalf of the state, while two others pleaded for legal aid.

Of the four accused, who were produced before Metropolitan Magistrate Jyoti Kler inside her chamber after expiry of their 14 days of judicial remand, Pawan Gupta and Vinay Sharma refused to take the service of legal aid counsel and expressed their willingness to become witnesses in the gangrape-cum-murder case, a PTI report said.

And his interrogation led to recovery of key evidences ( property of victims shared by them recovered from Vinay place.) as deposed by IO

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/men-a ... t/1123861/

"Vinay gave me his jeans, one jacket and full sleeve black shirt which he was wearing at that time. He also took off his rubber chappal. Thereafter, Vinay led the police party to his jhuggi at Ravi Dass Camp where a pair of Hush Puppies shoes were lying. He produced the shoe and a Nokia phone saying it was his share of the robbed property," the witness said. Similarly, Pawan had also produced his bloodied clothes from his jhuggi.

[ramana]

So why aren't the dacoity laws being invoked on these guys?

[chaanakya]

That is there ,IPC 395 , 396, 394, 412 , all related to decoity.\\Besides kidnapping