Indian police have arrested three suspects named in a suicide note left by a teenager who claimed she had been gang raped, as anger in the country grows over the rising number of violent crimes committed against women. The 17-year-old girl died Wednesday after ingesting poison, according to Paramjit Singh Gill, the inspector-general of police in the Patiala district of Punjab in the country’s north. In her suicide note, the girl blamed her alleged rapists for causing her death. Three of the suspects, including a female accomplice, have since been arrested, Gill said. The unnamed girl claimed she was gang-raped during the Hindu festival of Diwali on November 13. However, a formal case wasn’t registered by police until 14 days later. Two police officers involved in the case have been fired and another has been suspended for their handling of the rape complaint. Gill said an investigation was underway into allegations made by the girl’s family that the officers pressured her to withdraw her complaint.
How many more girls will take their own life after the stigma of rape or die as a result of gang rape, before Indian authorities curb this violent and pleasure seeking activity of psychopaths through proper legislation and strict system of law enforcement. Still there are more optimists than pessimists, as India is a functional democracy. whereas in Pakistan any such legislation for protection of weaker sex is just not possible on one pretext or another.
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India-Pakistan is not an issue here …
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A rape is a crime …
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A rape victim is a human who has been wronged …
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A rapist is a criminal …
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A civil society should have strong and effective deterrence against such crime …
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