According to a Times of India report, an 18-year-old girl allegedly escaped with her rapists' mobile phones after having been abducted and gang-raped on Saturday. The girl did so in order to help the police identify the goons and it did - the cops were able to figure out the identity of the culprits who had passed out after getting drunk.
According to the paper, the accused, Shriram Shribas and Shaikh Salam had tied the young woman up and forced her to consume liquor. Following this, they gang-raped her twice and also subjected her to unnatural sex. The duo, Shribas and Salam are habitual offenders and are on the run.
The rape survivor is a first-year college student an aspiring beautician who was on her way to the beauty parlour for her training when she was abducted. This is, of course, another bullet point in the long list of crimes against women in the country. Despite a stricter death penalty law, the perversion of the mind remains the same and women continue to live in pathetic conditions.
Almost a quarter-of-a-million girls younger than five die in India every year due to neglect resulting from society's preference for sons, a gender discrimination study found on Tuesday. This was over and above those aborted simply for being female, researchers wrote in The Lancet medical journal.
"Gender-based discrimination towards girls doesn't simply prevent them from being born, it may also precipitate the death of those who are born," said study co-author Christophe Guilmoto of the Paris Descartes University.
According to a report in the Ahmedabad Mirror, cases of stalking have risen by a sharp 62 percent in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat. This news, coming as it does in the wake of the #MeToo movement, highlights a fact that women have been stating for years - consent remains an alien concept in most societies.
In fact, since 2015, the 181 Abhayam helpline received around 9,000 calls from women who were worried and claimed that they were being stalked either physically or via texts and calls by men.
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