Spate of sexual assaults continue unabated in India.
AB Wire
NEW DELHI: Just days after news broke of a 71-year-old nun and six-year-old childbeing brutalized by the perversions of their attackers, the horrifying run of rape and sexual abuse in India has taken on further momentum, with the report of a shocking gang rape of a woman in front of her husband coming in from Tamil Nadu.
Police arrested on Tuesday five men who allegedly gang raped a woman in front of her husband near Rasipuram in the Namakkal district of Tamil Nadu, on Sunday night, reported The Times of India.
The woman was returning home with her husband after shopping when the five men waylaid the couple. They tied the husband to a tree and raped her in front of him, the Namagiripettai police said.
In another incident from Tamil Nadu, two men posing as policemen gang raped a woman, in Sivaganga district, according to CNN-IBN.
The men took the woman when she was with a male friend, to a forested area, and committed the crime. The perpetrators are still at large.
This past Friday, The Indian Express reported three men were arrested for allegedly gang raping a 27-year-old foreign national at a hotel in Karol Bagh, New Delhi.
The woman, who was Kazakhstani, had checked-in to the hotel with two of the accused, all of whom were known to her, the police said.
Hotel staff became aware something was amiss when they heard the woman screaming and decided to check in on her. While the two men were arrested at the hotel, the third perpetrator was found after a local tipoff.
Monday saw a disheartening story concerning the gang rape of a 30-year-old woman by an auto-rickshaw driver and three others in the Ranga Reddy district of Telangana. Police said the woman was waiting for a bus to go to a nearby village when an auto-rickshaw driver offered to drop her in his three-wheeler. He and three others then ambushed their victim. All were arraigned by police under the Nirbhaya Act, reported IANS.
Indian lawmakers have introduced tougher laws and punishments for sexual crimes, but despite such measures, the nation continues to see regular episodes of sexual violence.
Official data rape indicates rape have jumped almost 875% over the past 40 years — from 2,487 in 1971 to 24,206 in 2011. Despite that, sexual assaults remain underreported because of cultural factors and stigma.