Outrage as woman dies of gang rape in India’s capital
In India, another woman has fallen victim to gang rape, and died at a hospital in the capital New Delhi.
The 19-year-old was moved from a hospital in the state of Uttar Pradesh to New Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital, where she died while undergoing treatment, authorities said on Tuesday.
She came from the lowest caste Dalit community.
It was September 14 when the gang assaulted and raped the young woman at a field near her home in Hathras district, located about 100 kilometers from New Delhi.
Police have arrested four men in connection with the crime.
The Hathras district authority has issued a statement about the inhumane episode. “We will take the matter to fast-track court for the faster investigation and collection of evidence.”
#Hathras trended on Twitter as social media users expressed outrage at the gruesome sexual assault.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, a leader of the opposition Congress Party, said in a Twitter posting, “There is next to no protection for women. Criminals are openly committing crimes.”
About 300 protesters from the Bhim Army, a party championing the rights of the Dalit community, entered the hospital building, chanting slogans near the mortuary where the body was kept.
Uttar Pradesh is governed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). It ranks as India’s most unsafe state for women.
Last December, a 23-year-old Dalit woman was set ablaze by a gang of men as she made her way to a court in Uttar Pradesh to press rape charges.
Earlier this year, India executed four men for the gang rape and murder of a woman on a Delhi bus in 2012 that had sparked huge nationwide protests.
About 150,000 rape cases are awaiting trial in India’s dysfunctional criminal justice system.
In 2018, one woman reported rape every 15 minutes on average in India, according to the latest government data released in January.
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