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Rape and sexual violence have been under the spotlight since the brutal 2012 gang rape and killing of a 23-year-old student on a New Delhi bus. The attack galvanized massive protests and inspired ...
New Delhi has the highest number of sex crimes among India's major cities. Police figures show a rape reported on average every 18 hours; reported rape cases rose by nearly 17 percent between 2007 and 2011. [192] Only one of the 706 rape cases filed in Delhi in 2012 saw a successful conviction against the attacker. [79]
Rape is the fourth most common crime against women in India. [1] [2] According to the 2021 annual report of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), 31,677 rape cases were registered across the country, or an average of 86 cases daily, a rise from 2020 with 28,046 cases, while in 2019, 32,033 cases were registered. [3]
They say women in India continue to face rising violence despite tough laws that were implemeted following the gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old student on a moving bus in Delhi in 2012.
It was a horrendous rape case that shocked the world - six men in India brutally tortured and raped a 23-year-old physiotherapy student on a moving bus in New Delhi in 2012. On Friday four of the ...
India has been characterised as one of the "countries with the lowest per capita rates of rape". [9] [10] Many rapes go unreported in various countries including India. [11] [12] The willingness to report rape has increased in recent years, after several incidents of rape received widespread media attention and triggered public protest.
1990 Bantala rape case; 1994 Mokokchung Massacre; 2006 Noida serial murders; 2014 Badaun gang rape allegations; 2015 Kandhamal gang rape case; 2016 Ariyalur gang rape case; 2016 Greater Noida Rape Case; 2017 Unnao rape case; 2019 Hyderabad gang rape and murder; 2019 Pollachi sexual assault case
New Delhi — More than three months after the rape and murder of a 31-year-old female doctor in India sparked wide-scale protests across the country, the trial of the only person accused of the ...