4-Year-Old Indian Girl Raped, Left With Severe Brain Injuries In Critical Condition

By Cavan Sieczkowski
Posted: 04/23/2013 1:52 pm EDT  |  Updated: 04/23/2013 2:18 pm EDT




A 4-year-old Indian rape victim was left with severe brain injuries after allegedly being suffocated. Here, Indian schoolgirls hold a placard and participate in a silent rally against the rape of a 5-year-old girl in New Delhi, in Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, April 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

A 4-year-old Indian girl who was raped last week is currently in critical condition, having sustained severe brain injuries after allegedly being suffocated.

The unnamed child was reportedly raped in her village in Madhya Pradesh on April 17, according to Press Trust of India.

The girl's family found the child, who went missing on Wednesday, the next morning lying unconscious and profusely bleeding near a crematorium in her village, according to The Times of India. She had lacerations, tears and bruises on her body, and had allegedly been suffocated, which caused serious brain injuries.

Firoz Khan, a 35-year-old welder, is accused of raping the 4-year-old. His alleged accomplice is accused of using chocolate to lure the girl from her home, NDTV reports.

“The condition of the 4-year-old child, who was found unconscious in a field in Ghansur town of MP, is still critical. She is totally unconscious from the time she was brought to Nagpur," a doctor told The Hindu. "We have done all the examinations including MRI brain and EEG which indicates gross damage to her brain. Her brain’s functioning has reduced to an abnormal level. This is hypoxic brain damage which means inability of brain to work due lack of oxygen supply."

“She has been put on a life support system and is being treated by a team of senior doctors. Nothing else can be said about her situation now" he added.

Police are still searching for Khan, who may have left the country, according to NDTV. The other suspect has been arrested.

News of this horrific incident comes in the midst of fury over the rape and torture of a 5-year-old girl in the Indian capital . The girl was found Wednesday in a New Delhi apartment building and doctors discovered a candle and a bottle of hair oil inside her little body.

Hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets in the wake of the crime, alleging that police did not respond to the tragedy.

"The police must be held accountable for their shocking levels of apathy. They urgently need to review police processes to ensure that all cases of rape and sexual violence – not just those highlighted by the media – are fully and promptly investigated," G. Ananthapadmanabhan, who heads the India chapter of the human rights group Amnesty International, said, according to the Associated Press. "Those who fail to do their job must be held accountable."

Two suspects -- aged 19 and 24 -- have been arrested in connection with the rape, according to the report.

     

19-yr-old school girl gangraped in moving auto

GHAZIABAD: When she flagged down a share auto-rickshaw, little did she know that she would be gagged, beaten, gang-raped, robbed and then dumped by three men near the busy Shipra Mall, an important landmark in Indirapuram. 

The 19-year-old woman did not feel uncomfortable to get into a shared auto-rickshaw, as it's a common practice in the area.

The men who raped the woman later confessed to the police that had stolen the vehicle.

NDTV quoted the woman saying that she cried for help for two hours but no one came forward to help her.

The channel also says that the auto rickshaw passed through six police posts.

Two of the three men involved in the incident have been arrested. "All three are in their twenties," Superintendent of Police Ghaziabad rural Jagdish Sharma said.

The class 12 student, who was raped by three men, had fought hard to save herself from her assailants, police here said.

Police claim the victim, who was on her way home after meeting a friend, was forced by two of the men - who posed as passengers - to sit between them. They gagged her once the vehicle developed some mechanical fault near Khoda colony, 2 km from the mall, and stopped.

Fault taken care of, the three-wheeler sped towards Ghaziabad city. And once it reached Galand, the men dragged the woman out, beat her up when she resisted, and then took turns to rape her, a police officer told HT.

Around 10.30pm, the three men fled the spot, but only after they had robbed the victim of whatever cash she had on her person and her mobile phone.

In her statement to the police, the girl mentioned that the rod on the window had broken; she also informed them that the vehicle had a black tarpaulin sheet that covered the windows and served as a curtain of sorts.

The girl had earlier resisted a diversion in the route of the vehicle - while the men had initially told her they were headed towards Delhi, they later took a U-turn and drove in the opposite direction.

When the girl questioned the change of direction in the vehicle, two of the men sat beside her and gagged her.

After raping her in the vehicle, the men dragged the 19-year-old out into the fields near Bankey Bihari Dental College and again raped her, taking turns. 

The vehicle's owner, Prem Singh, said three men in an inebriated condition had taken the vehicle from its driver, Pintu, in broad daylight on March 2.

The men had been driving to Delhi in the vehicle, and had stopped at Khoda for some repairs to the tempo. At around 8.30 p.m., they were near Shipra Mall.

After committing the crime, the men left the girl in the fields and fled.

They took with them Rs.400 that the girl had with her, her ATM card and mobile phone.

Source: http://in.news.yahoo.com/19-yr-old-school-girl-gangraped-in-moving-auto-114004900.html 

Another rape in Delhi-NCR: Call centre employee abducted, gangraped in Gurgaon

Ajay Kumar
Gurgaon, Thursday, March 7, 2013 | 12:29 IST

In a shocking reminder of how vulnerable women are in the National Capital Region, a 24-year-old employee of Convergys BPO was abducted and gang-raped by two unidentified men in a moving car in Gurgaon on Wednesday evening.

According to the police, the woman had just finished her afternoon shift at 7 pm and was waiting for a cab outside her office at Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway, when the incident occurred.

A car stopped near her and as she went closer thinking it was her office cab, she was abducted at gunpoint from the service lane. The accused drove for more than two hours on MG road and adjoining roads as they took turn to rape her. The victim was dumped around 10 pm near Old Gurgaon bus stand.

The distraught woman made a call to her office, which in turn informed the police.

Although the victim initially hesitated to register a complaint and undergo medical in Gurgaon tests, she was convinced later. On her complaint, the police have registered a case at DLF Phase-2 police station against unknown people. A medical examination has confirmed rape, police officials said.

"The victim was waiting for her office cab at service lane of the E-way, and mistook the Wagon R approaching towards her as her office cab. An unidentified person in the car pulled her inside and sped away," said Alok Mittal, police commissioner of Gurgaon.

The car occupants held her hostage at gun point and drove towards MG road via E-way.

The woman is a native of Hyderabad and lives in South Delhi with her husband. Police sources said the victim was initially too horrified to register a complaint, and had not deposed before the magistrate till late evening.

Ironically, the incident took place days after the IT-BPO industry led by Nasscom finished the celebration of Women Safety Month in February. Also, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi is visiting a village in Gurgaon on Friday and the security has been tightened in the Millennium City.

After the December 16 gang rape incident in the Capital, Nasscom had decided to celebrate February as Women Safety Month in solidarity with women. About 32 per cent of the workforce in Indian IT-BPO industry is women. At least 50 different programs, including the identification of less safer routes taken by the BPO employees, were organized by Nasscom in different campuses.

Earlier this year, the Delhi Police had requested the ministry of home affairs, to give them powers to arrest the cab drivers flouting rules related to safety of women under section 133 (1) b of the CrPC.

Source: http://m.indiatoday.in/story/gangrape-in-moving-car-call-centre-employee-abducted-in-gurgaon/1/256813.html

Statistics: Rape Conviction Rates Across India

By Saptarishi Dutta and Aditi Malhotra

A graphic showing the conviction rate of rape cases in India in 2011. 

A “Rape Map of India,” posted on India Real Time Thursday looked at the number of reported rape cases in India in 2011.

Today, we are adding data from the National Crime Records Bureau on the rate of conviction in rape cases in each state around the country. Some 15,423 rape cases were decided countrywide in 2011.

Of the total number of cases that made to court, the overall rate of convictions stand at 26.4%, or 4,072 convictions while 11,351 acquittals were recorded. These included cases pending from previous years as well.

In 2010, 14,263 cases of rape were decided, with the accused being convicted in 3,788 cases, or 26.6%.

According to the data, the small northeastern state of Manipur recorded a 100% conviction rate in rape trials in 2011.

India is far from unique in its overall conviction rate, which many activists deplore as low. This 2008 Washington Post story looks at the low rape conviction rate in the U.K.

Note: The graphic excludes Andaman & Nicobar and Lakshadweep Islands. 

Source: http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2013/01/04/statistics-conviction-rates-for-rape-across-india/

Rise in India's crime graph by five per cent in 2010

New Delhi: Cases of crime under various categories in the country increased by about 5 per cent last year as compared to 2009, according to a publication of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). Besides, road accidents alone claimed 1.33 lakh lives last year, an increase of 5.5 per cent over 2009 that saw 1.26 lakh deaths.

According to “Crime in India 2010,” a total of 22,24,831 crimes were reported under the Indian Penal Code as against 21,21,345 cases in 2009. Murder cases during the year (33,335) went up by 3 per cent against 32,369 cases in 2009.

Cases under the following heads showed an increasing trend — attempt to murder increased by 1.3 per cent, rape cases increased by 3.6 per cent, kidnapping and abduction cases increased by 13.5 per cent, robbery rose by 4.4 per cent, and dowry deaths went up marginally by 0.1 per cent.

Crime against women during 2010 (2,13,585) went up by 4.8 per cent compared to 2,03,804 cases recorded in 2009. Crime against children went up by 10.3 per cent (26,694) as against 24,201 cases in 2009. However, crime against the Scheduled Castes (SC) declined by 2.6 per cent in 2010 (32,712) compared to 33,594 cases in 2009. Those against the Scheduled Tribes (ST) during the last year was put at 5885 case, an increase of 8.5 per cent compared to 5425 cases in 2009.

As per another publication of NCRB, ‘Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India 2010,' as many as 3,84, 649 lives were lost in accidents in 2010. In 2009, this figure stood at 3,57,021 indicating an increase of 7.7 per cent in 2010. Road accidents claimed the lives of 1,33,938 pople last year, indicating a rise of 5.5 per cent compared to 1,26,896 deaths in 2009.

As many as 1,34,599 people committed suicide in 2010. Family problem was the major reason for such suicides (31,856), followed by illness (28,464). Of the total suicides reported, 44,535 people (33.1 per cent) consumed poison to commit suicide and 42,266 persons (31.4 per cent) committed suicide by hanging.

The 58th edition of “Crime In India – 2010” was released by Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram here on Thursday. The NCRB has been publishing such figures since 1953, informed N.K. Tripathi, Director-General of NCRB.

The publication is a compilation and analysis of crime statistics on various types of crimes which had taken place in that year. The report is widely referred to by policy makers, police personnel, researchers, NGOs and other stake holders.

The Bureau has also been annually bringing out publication on “Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India” since 1967 to analyse the loss of valuable human lives in various types of accidents, natural calamity and suicides.

The NCRB has digitised all the editions of both publications, which can be accessed from the website of NCRB (http://ncrb.gov.in).

The Bureau is also entrusted with the task of implementing CCTNS (Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems), a mission-mode project of the Home Ministry under national e-Governance plan to connect all the 15000 police stations and 6000-odd higher police offices across the country. This project is likely to be rolled out by March 2012, the NCRB chief said.

Source: http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/rise-in-indias-crime-graph-by-five-per-cent-in-2010/article2576192.ece