Tuesday, April 02, 2013

Gun applications by Indian women double since Delhi rape case...

Indian police have reported an upsurge in the number of women applying for gun licences since the gang rape and murder of a Delhi student last December.

Police said most of the applicants are professional women who may feel more vulnerable since the attack on the 23 year old physiotherapy student as she travelled home from watching the film Life of Pi at a South Delhi shopping mall.

Campaigners for women's safety said they understood why women were deciding to take responsibility for their own safety when the police had failed to protect them, but they feared the move could backfire.

Police at Delhi's Gun Licensing Unit said applications from women had doubled since the December attack in which the victim was gang-raped by six men and mutilated with iron rod. She suffered chronic injuries to her abdomen, brain damage and a heart attack before she died in a Singapore hospital 13 days after the assault. Full story...

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