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Thursday, September 5, 2013
6-year-old R*pe Victim, forced to marry R*pist's 8-year-old Son
A caste council in Rajasthan, India, has ordered the parents of a six-year-old rape victim to get her married to the eight-year-old son of the man accused of the rape, police reported on Thursday.
The incident occurred at Keshavpura in Kota, 250 km from Jaipur.
The 40-year-old man, identified as Kailash, raped the girl who lives in his neighbourhood about a fortnight ago, police said.
"Kailash locked her in a room and raped her.
Instead of registering a police complaint, elders belonging to the girl's caste called a panchayat (village council) meeting," a police official said.
The panchayat ordered the girl's parents to get her married to Kailash's minor son.
However, the girl's parents as well as Kailash refused to accept the panchayat's decision.
And even as negotiations were going on between the girls' parents and the accused, Kailash again raped the girl on Wednesday, police said.
Some social activists came to know about Wednesday's rape and brought the girl and her parents to Mahaveer Nagar police station in Kota and filed a complaint.
Kailash was arrested and an investigation launched into the allegations against the panchayat members, said circle officer (city) Banwari Lal Meena.
Sunday, September 1, 2013
Delhi Gang-R*pe Murder Case: Teenager Giving Three Years In Prison Sentence
An Indian court has found a teenager guilty of taking part in the fatal gang-r*pe of a student in New Delhi, a crime that sparked revulsion and angry protests in the country.
The juveniles’ court sentenced the teenager to three years in a correctional facility after handing down the first and long-delayed verdict over the brutal assault on the student on a moving bus, in December last year.
“He has been held guilty for r*pe and murder and sentenced to three years subject to review,” Anil Sharma, the chief investigating officer in the case, told reporters outside the court in the capital.
The teenager, who was 17 at the time of the attack, was given the maximum penalty after he was tried as a juvenile, and the three years will include the time he has already spent in custody.
The victim’s mother emerged from the court in tears, saying “he got just three years from December, he has been given three years”.
“He should get an adult sentence,” the emotional mother, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told reporters.
Her daughter, a 23-year-old physiotherapy student, died of internal injuries after being assaulted with an iron bar allegedly by six men on the night of December 16th.
Her male companions were also beaten up and then thrown out from the bus.
The attack brought simmering anger about endemic s*x crime in India to the boil, and sparked weeks of sometimes violent street protests throughout the country.
The victim’s family had earlier called for the teenager to be given the adult's maximum penalty(d**th), saying the juvenile justice system, which seeks to reform rather than punish, was too lenient.
The perceived leniency of the sentence is likely to spark further anger in India where the suspects, some of whom have been beaten up in jail, are public hate figures.
Outside the court, up to 20 protesters demanded a harsher punishment, screaming “Hang the juvenile too” and “We want justice.”
The separate trial of the four adult suspects in a fast-track court is hearing closing arguments and is expected to be concluded in a few weeks time, with the men facing a possible d*ath sentence if convicted.
The fifth adult, the suspected ring leader, died in jail in an apparent suicide.
Outrage over the attack pushed parliament to pass a new law toughening sentences for rapists, while there was a round of public soul-searching over the rising tide of violence against women.
The Supreme Court this month cleared the way for the principal magistrate, Geetanjli Goel, to deliver the verdict on the juvenile’s case.
It was delayed after a petition was lodged in the Supreme Court by an opposition politician for a review of the juvenile law, arguing suspects aged over 16 accused of serious offences should be tried in adult courts.
The juvenile, one of six children, was employed to clean the bus allegedly used for the attack and often slept rough or inside the vehicle, reports say.
He reportedly left his impoverished home in a village in northern Uttar Pradesh state at the age of 11 to live in Delhi, where he worked in a string of menial jobs until landing the job of cleaning the bus.
Children’s rights groups have called for public restraint over the verdict, saying the teenager needed to be given a chance of rehabilitation, adding that India’s child protection services had already failed him.
“In fact, every child coming in conflict with the law is a reflection of the state and society failing that child,” Vijaylakshmi Arora, director of policy and research at Child Relief and You, told AFP.
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
MYSTERY : 3-Months-Old Baby Catches Fire On His Own
A 3-month-old Indian baby is the center of a rare and medical mystery as doctors are trying to ascertain if the infant suffered from spontaneous human combustion , according to the report from The New York Time.
The infant is being treated at the Kilpauk Medical College Hospital in Chennai, India, after his parents claimed he caught on fire four separate occasions.
The infant's mother, Rajeshwari Karnan, said nine days after his birth she found the baby on fire in her hut after he was left on his own momentarily.
"There was a flame on his belly and his right knee, and my husband rushed with a towel to put it off," Karnan said. "I got very scared."
But that wasn't the only time it happened, according to the parents, who said there were three other similar incidents even after they took the baby to a local hospital for treatment.
"A baby catching fire spontaneously is not possible," Dr Mohan said.
"Alcoholics have a very small percentage of alcohol secreted in their sweat but even that wouldn't be enough to generate a fire."
"We are in a dilemma and haven't come to any conclusion," Dr. Narayan Babu, head of pediatrics at Kilpauk Medical Hospital, told the New York Times.
"The parents have held that the child burned instantaneously without any provocation. We are carrying out numerous tests. We are not saying it is SHC until all investigations are complete."
Spontaneous human combustion remains a controversial theory as a plausible cause of death.
"The baby doesn't have any scars or injuries on his back. This could be because he was lying on his back and there was no air contact to cause a fire," Dr. Narayan Babu concluded.
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