Posted on February 10, 2015 by Rita Banerji
9 February 2015, Jaipur, Rajasthan
A Japanese woman has accused an Indian tourist guide of drugging and then raping her in the historic city of Jaipur, police said, the latest in a series of sex attacks on foreigners in the country.
The 20-year-old told police the guide offered to show her around Jaipur on his motorbike on Sunday before assaulting her in an isolated part of the city in the evening……
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-09/japanese-tourist-claims-raped-by-guide-in-india/6081518
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Posted on January 10, 2015 by THE 50 MILLION MISSING CAMPAIGN
23 December 2014, Rajasthan
A village council (panchayat) in a Barmer village in Rajasthan ordered that the nose of an alleged Dalit rape victim be chopped off, reportedly at the behest of the rapist.
The victim on Monday met the district’s superintendent of police and sought police protection from the villagers and the rapist, who happens to be her father-in-law.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/jaipur/caste-panchayat-orders-nose-of-dalit-rape-victim-chopped-off/article1-1299716.aspx
http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/jaipur/caste-panchayat-orders-nose-of-dalit-rape-victim-chopped-off/article1-1299716.aspx
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Posted on November 12, 2014 by Rita Banerji
10 November 2014, Rajasthan
A 45-year-old woman was stripped and paraded naked through the village on the order of the panchayat ( village council). She was accused of causing the death of man in the village. Women often are accused of witchcraft and persecuted, even killed.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/woman-paraded-naked-in-rajasthan-39-arrested/article1-1284493.aspx
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Posted on October 14, 2014 by Rita Banerji
4 October 2014, Jaipur
A 6-yr-old girl was found brutally murdered with multiple stab wounds. It seems she may have been raped before she was killed. Over the last couple of years there’s seem to be a sudden increase in the killing of rape victims in India.
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-jaipur-six-year-old-girl-brutally-stabbed-to-death-2023527
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Posted on September 30, 2014 by Rita Banerji
26 September 2014, Rajasthan
A police constable has been charged with raping and strangling to death his 8 year old niece. Later he pretended to help the family search for her and file an FIR (police complaint). He also had a history of sexually abusing children in the family, for which the family had beat him up, but lodged no police complaint. Families often choose to be secretive about routine sexual abuse and sexual violence within the family.
http://m.timesofindia.com/city/jaipur/Rajasthan-constable-arrested-for-rape-murder-of-8-year-old-niece/articleshow/43483472.cms
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Posted on September 26, 2014 by THE 50 MILLION MISSING CAMPAIGN
September 20, 2014, Jaipur, Rajasthan
Four men broke into a home in an upscale neighborhood, and after assaulting the elderly father-in-law and brutally stabbing the husband, they gang raped the wife before fleeing with valuables. The couples 5 -year-old called for help after they left.
http://m.timesofindia.com/city/jaipur/Robbers-gang-rape-woman-stab-husband-in-posh-Jaipur-locality/articleshow/42934849.cms
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Posted on June 8, 2014 by THE 50 MILLION MISSING CAMPAIGN
Jaipur, Rajasthan, June 8, 2014
A high ranking woman corporate official of a Malaysian company was drugged and raped by a man at gunpoint on Thursday night. The man had been showing the woman few places in and around Jaipur to start up the company’s project. The accused has been identified as Puneet Jain, a management consultant in the city.
http://www.asianage.com/india/malaysia-woman-raped-gunpoint-039
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Posted on May 4, 2014 by THE 50 MILLION MISSING CAMPAIGN
25 April, 2014, Bundi, Rajasthan
A 28-year-old teacher was gang raped inside a classroom of a primary school in a village in Rajathan. The attackers were men from neighboring villages.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Teacher-gang-raped-in-school-premises-in-Rajasthan/articleshow/34209882.cms
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Posted on October 20, 2011 by THE 50 MILLION MISSING CAMPAIGN
Jaipur, Rajasthan, January 25, 2011
The police found the body of a newborn girl, killed and dumped in a canal near Naugama, a small village in Banswara district. Earlier families used to practice female foeticide, but after the government announced monetary incentives for couples to have girls, families now go to the hospitals with an eye on the money offered. However, soon after leaving the hospital, the newborn girls “disappear”. In some cases they are killed while in others the families just throw them away. Read the report here
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