Wednesday, September 11, 2013

India: Courts fail thousands of rape victims...

MILES away from India’s capital, a mother-of-two who makes a living cobbling shoes, knows nothing about the fatal gang-rape of a young woman in New Delhi and the furious street protests that followed her grisly ordeal on a moving bus.

And she won’t have heard about the guilty verdict passed down on the four men accused of the assault yesterday, or that they face the death penalty.

The 49-year-old low-caste woman was herself raped, by four policemen in a village police station in the central state of Madhya Pradesh. That was four years ago, and she is still waiting for justice.

“It’s taking a long time. I’ve been to the court so many times, but still I am waiting. Each time, the hearing is delayed and delayed,” said the woman, speaking by telephone from Jamwada village in Betul district.

“It’s been four years. It is costly and time-consuming to keep going to court, but I want those men who did this to me to get what they deserve. I don’t know when that will be or if it will ever happen,” said the woman, who cannot be identified. Full story...

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