Delhi rape case: Demand for death penalty for rapist's increases, Delhi Police take some protesters into custody

New Delhi:  April 21 (ANI): Even as the public clamours for giving the death penalty to rapists, police in Delhi took several protesters into preventive custody on Sunday.

A demonstrator fell unconscious while protesting the brutal rape of the five-year old girl in New Delhi, and demanding more safety for women.

An irate protester, Shikha Rai, said the police and the government should take adequate security measures for the safety of women in the country.

She added: "Our demand is to make safe a safe place for women. We elect government for the security and safety of the people and if they or if Delhi police are unable to provide that security that I think, we will have to come out and take care of ourselves."

Meanwhile, reports of protests against the rape of a five-year-old are coming in from other parts of the country.

Protesters took to the streets raising slogans, demanding a harsh punishment for the man suspected of raping the five-year-old girl who is battling for her life at a hospital in New Delhi.

To express solidarity with the five-year-old girl, protesters shouted slogans against Delhi Police and the Union government demanding the resignation of Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar.

An agitated protester, Neelam said, "We are demonstrating against the brutal incident done by an animal like human being with the small girl. We demand resignation of Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar, as during his tenure, another horrifying incident happened after the December 16 incident. Attitude of police has not changed. They still do not lodge FIR and the family of victims is asked to compromise and shut their mouth. We want to ask them as to what is their role? What is their duty? Is it to make the victim keep quite or to help them?"

Lashing out at United Progressive Alliance (UPA), a protester Sharda, urged the government to hang the accused.

"The biggest problem is that the culprits are not being punished due to which they are fearlessly raping women. I just want to say that in such cases, the culprits should be hanged to death or else women will have to find ways to protect themselves," said Sharda

A woman also fainted while raising her voice against the safety for women during the protest. She was immediately taken to the hospital for treatment.

The victim, whose parents work as labourers and live in the eastern neighbourhood of Delhi, went missing on April 15.

Police found her with bruise marks on her body in the suspect's house in a semi-conscious condition on Thursday after her parents had registered a complaint.

Delhi police had arrested the 25-year-old man for the rape of the child from arrested from Muzaffarpur town in India's eastern state of Bihar. The man was taken into transit custody to be brought to New Delhi.

The rape, which left the young girl in a critical condition, revived memories of the brutal gang rape by five adult men and a teenaged boy of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student on a bus on December 16 in New Delhi. That woman died of her injuries.

Earlier Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said in a statement that he was deeply disturbed by the latest incident. In December his administration had faced criticism for failing to respond to public anger over the horrific attack on the physiotherapy student.

Singh's government passed tougher laws to fight gender crimes in March, putting in place new provisions and tougher punishments, which include criminalising voyeurism and stalking and making acid attacks and human trafficking specific offences.

Source: http://in.news.yahoo.com/delhi-rape-case-demand-death-penalty-rapists-increases-121825672.html

Yeola rape victim continues to protest

Santosh Sonawane, TNN Mar 10, 2013, 05.15AM IST

NASHIK: The 21-year-old rape victim of Nagarsul village in Yeola tehsil, Nashik district, continued her agitation for the second day on Saturday to demand the arrest of the sarpanch who had allegedly raped her.

The victim who is agitating, is accompanied by her husband, who, according to sources, said that the arrest of the sarpanch was necessary as there was a constant threat to their life from him.

Officials from the Yeala city police said that after the woman took up the agitation, the police inspectors of the city and taluka police had visited her to convince that they were taking all the necessary steps to arrest sarpanch Pramod Patil at the earliest.

The police said that the sarpanch had applied for anticipatory bail at the sessions court which was rejected. However, he continues to elude the police and has approached the high court for his anticipatory bail.

Meanwhile, the victim's sister-in-law lodged a complaint with the Yeola taluka police station on Friday alleging that her husband was kidnapped by the goons of the sarpanch, for supporting the rape victim in lodging a complaint against the sarpanch.

The complainant said that her husband was kidnapped sometime between 7 pm and 9pm on Thursday. The police said the kidnapped person produced himself before the Chalisgaon police station in Jalgaon district on Friday morning, though he contended that he was not aware about who had kidnapped him.

On January 30, the victim had lodged a complaint at the Yeola taluka police station alleging that the sarpanch and his accomplice Santosh Gandale had raped her at a hotel in Yeola teshil about three months ago.

She kept mum for three months as the accused had threatened to kill her son and husband if she spoke about the incident to anyone. However, as their harassment continued and her husband got suspicious about it, the victim confided in him about the incident, after which a complaint was lodged with the police. Although the sarpanch's two accomplices in the crime have been arrested, the main accused is still at large.

Police inspector Surendra Shirsath informed that the search was on to trace the accused.